[quote name=\'gameshowlover87\' post=\'244665\' date=\'Jul 21 2010, 11:26 PM\']I like TV Tropes. I think it's a great and funny site[/quote]
[quote name=\'J.R.\' post=\'244670\' date=\'Jul 21 2010, 11:43 PM\']TVTropes is a ridiculously addicting site.[/quote]
I get the appeal. I only want to point out that not everything that's addictive is good for you. In fact, very few addictive things are.
I think my problems are twofold. One is the accuracy issue. On the main page, contributors are specifically told that they don't need to verify anything, and for way too many folks, that means it's OK to say whatever you want, whether you know it to be true or not. That means a LOT of false information is going to be published, not to mention opinion presented as fact, and people (like the OP of this thread) are going to be, at best, legitimately confused. That's not good for something that's laid out like a reference site, whether it's intended to be one or not.
My second problem is that the site's basic layout, featuring lists of examples which fit various subjects, doesn't give priority to the best or most notable examples. In a category of magical transformation phrases, for example, Captain Marvel's "Shazam!" is given exactly the same weight as -- and I'm not making this up -- "a failed cartoon pilot based on the video game series Battletoads". Elsewhere on that same list, one contributor challenged the internal logic and consistency of a cartoon series about a superpowered teddy bear. Also, as on just about any user-driven site of this type, anime and manga are preposterously over-represented compared to their real-life relevance.
Yeah, sure, it's addictive, maybe even entertaining if you look at it right. To me, though, it just represents most of what's wrong with the internet, all packed inside one convenient URL.
