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[Skofo]

weekly column

That'd be horrible. The wiki format works awesomely for TVTropes for the same reason that it works awesomely for Wikipedia. People generally don't want to have a weekly ration of random knowledge that they probably don't even really care about, they want to search for exactly what they want and indulge in it and things related to it as much as they please.

[AMAZON]

a weekly column would be pretty cool as a side thing, where they further delved into the implications of existing tropes, but not as the main site.

[Tycho Brahe]

weekly column

That'd be horrible. The wiki format works awesomely for TVTropes for the same reason that it works awesomely for Wikipedia. People generally don't want to have a weekly ration of random knowledge that they probably don't even really care about, they want to search for exactly what they want and indulge in it and things related to it as much as they please.

Actually, I've subscribed to the wikipedia daily article thing, and I think its great. It does a little to broaden ones knowlege of stuff one would never look up on ones own.

(I only wrote one so much because I felt dirty writing "they'd never look up on they're own...")

[William Laub]

(I only wrote one so much because I felt dirty writing "they'd never look up on they're own...")

There are a number of proposed genderless personal pronouns. I've been working on assimilating "thon" into my vocabulary.

[SirNiko]

What pronoun does "thon" replace?

[C.A. Silbereisen]

(I only wrote one so much because I felt dirty writing "they'd never look up on they're own...")

"It does a little to broaden your knowlege of stuff you would never look up on your own."

See, easy as that.

Also, according to the Spelling Gestapo it's "their" not "they're".

[William Laub]

What pronoun does "thon" replace?

It would replace "he" and "she" in any case where gender is not known or specified. Of course, given the current state of the English languages, it probably wouldn't hurt anything to just let "they" serve as both a plural and singular pronoun.

[Tycho Brahe]

"It does a little to broaden your knowlege of stuff you would never look up on your own."

That makes me feel dirty. And wrong. *shudder*

[Phasma Felis]

Funny thing is, there isn't. People manage to comment anyway. You're not supposed to jump into the main pages of tropes sharing anecdotes or whatever, and if you want to correct something, you go in and edit it; no matter how much the site tells people not to, most tropers will just attach some "well, actually..." comment onto the offending sentence.

Also, when giving an example of a trope, tropers have a habit of placing the example with some smarmy comment about how the example should have been on here already, i.e., "Come on, people, <some show nobody has heard of> isn't on here yet? FOR SHAME"

Also, people regularly use hyperlinks to compare themselves to positive tropes (like "Lazy but Brilliant") and, if they're arguing with someone, their opponents to negative tropes ("You Fail Logic Forever").

Those might seem like nitpicks, but given how much the site tries to stop people doing things like that and how irritating it gets after a while, I can't take it. That's why I'm not a big fan of the place.

It's a wiki, yo. Fix that shit! You'll do the world a favor.

(In their defense, it's only recently that the site has started to crack down on bad writing, and it's gonna take a while to edit out all the outstanding problems. IMHO, there's already been improvement.

[Paint by Numbers]

It's a wiki, yo. Fix that shit! You'll do the world a favor.

You're right, man. I'm gonna go there and change this once and for all.