Terran Franklin

In recent weeks, One of the admins of the TV Tropes site, of which I have a positive relationship with, found some of their pages way too negative and vitriolic, and decided to at first delete the pages, and then set up a cleaned—and locked—version of the above pages.  One such example would be Christian Chandler, of Sonichu fame.  Or rather infamy, more like it.  I’ve discussed him before.

Here’s an example of the previous version, as saved on one of the several sites (some fall into varying levels of burn pages) devoted to this psudo-gentleman.

And here’s the current TV Tropes article.

As some of you would expect, most of the people making the edits to the TV Tropes went into full on shit-throwing-monkey mode, decrying that Tv Tropes is becoming too sanitized and unfunny, that they have the right to dislike and hate something, and even invoking Goodwin’s Law by linking Fast Eddie to Joesph Stalin.  All in all, there was a lot of people acting like they’re twelve on the internet.

And maybe people like Fast Eddie don’t want to associate himself with people who act like they’re twelve on the internet, hmm?

I sided with the admins using the same principle as to why I stomp out flames and trolls in my DA page:  There are places for you to go throw your crap around and hate on CWC, Justin Bieber, The Shrub, Ba Rock, Twilight…me, oh dear lord oh so amio…but it’s just not appropriate anywhere else.  As what I posted in the comments pages.

This is not Wikipedia, I’ll give you that, but this is not Encyclopedia Dramatica either. TV Tropes is not, and should never become, a burn page. It’s here mostly to list the many tropes a Television Show, Book, Movie, or even a crappy web comic like the crap I made in the past, and describe each trope in depth. That’s where the draw is, and that’s why people waste their lives away reading this site. And if someone actually progresses as a human being, if not by talent, TV Tropes is not beyond putting that in there. Hell, they’d do the same to CWC if—HORRORS!—he suddenly woke up to be a normal fully functioning adult man who finds a well-paying job, moves out of his parents, and actually socialized like a normal human being at evenings. (After taking a shower, of course)

I’m not saying that you have the right to dislike, or even hate, something. It’s a free country. I’m saying that there are places on the internet to vent your dislikes and hatred. TV Tropes is not that place. The Internet _has_ a Hate Machine, but the Internet is not _the_ Hate Machine. I call for the civility to realize the difference.

It’s just a classic example of the right to throw your fist ends at the right for someone else to have his face unmarked.  Freedom of speech also means the right not to hear someone flaming on anyone else or see a burn page.  Or for that matter, have a turd of a comment get plopped on someone’s Art Archive page without that person daring to pitch it out with the ‘Hide Comment’ like, or get on Youtube and be able to watch some vids without some asshole hacking the site with evil code in the comments.  I’m not here puffing up my ego or railing against the trolls, I just don’t want to see them in my face all the time.  And I’m not the only one who feels this way.