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as a play on "the dark side" of TV Tropes, is a resource for more criticism-based trope examples or common ways the wiki is inappropriately edited, and Sugar Wiki is about praise-based tropes, such as funny or heartwarming moments, and is meant to be "the sweet side" of TV Tropes.
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service from the site after determining that pages regarding adult and mature tropes were inconsistent with its terms of service. The site separated NSFG articles (Not Safe for Google) from SFG articles (Safe for Google) in order to allow discussion of these kinds of tropes.
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additionally condemned Google AdSense itself for "providing a financial disincentive to discuss" such topics. Pornographic tropes and works, as well as additional content deemed inappropriate for coverage, were also removed from the site following the incident.
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to the point where the PmWiki website lists that it "no longer uses PmWiki in any way; the only trace that remains is in the URL" and that "no code is in use" but is not
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TV Tropes was founded in 2004 by a programmer under the pseudonym "Fast Eddie." He described himself as having become interested in the conventions of
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In a separate incident in 2012, in response to other complaints by Google, TV Tropes changed its guidelines to restrict coverage of
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in the 1970s and after browsing Internet forums in the 1990s. He sold the site in 2014 to Drew Schoentrup and
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distribution of its content but continued to host the prior submissions under a new distribution license.
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analysis". Essayist Linda Börzsei described TV Tropes as a technological continuum of classical
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described the tone of contributions to the site as "often light and funny".
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criticized this decision, as it censored documentation of sexist tropes in
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In October 2010, in what the site refers to as "The Google Incident",
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that collects and documents descriptions and examples of
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In an interview with TV Tropes co-founder Fast Eddie,
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From April 2008 until July 2012, TV Tropes published
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from creative works in an ironic fashion. Economist
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Wiki documenting plot conventions in creative works
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