Updating GURPS on tvtropes, anyone?

Tallor · 11-06-2016, 03:55 PM

My coding skills are rather lacking (at least with the system tvtropes uses) but I'd really like to contribute to the page, especially since no one seems to have touched it since 2011.

Though if there are better ways of connecting the public with GURPS, I'd like to hear!

robkelk · 11-06-2016, 04:02 PM

I think a lot of the gamer-geeks left TV Tropes after The Second Google Incident - the equivalent page on All The Tropes was last updated in 2015. (Conflict-of-interest disclosure: I'm an admin at All The Tropes.)

If that is the case - and I have no statistics saying that it is or isn't - we might want to advertise GURPS on sites that gamers actually frequent instead of on TV Tropes.

trooper6 · 11-06-2016, 05:31 PM

What is The Second Google Incident?

Nemoricus · 11-06-2016, 06:10 PM

The concise version is that Google, who manages TV Tropes' advertising, took exception to the content of some of the pages on the site. This resulted in a purge of potentially objectionable content, since TV Tropes relies on ad revenue to stay operating.

A more extensive version can be found here: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...GoogleIncident

robkelk · 11-06-2016, 06:15 PM

I'll try to be somewhat more constructive...

What's missing from the article (any version, on any of the tropes sites) that should be added?

whswhs · 11-06-2016, 09:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by robkelk

I think a lot of the gamer-geeks left TV Tropes after The Second Google Incident - the equivalent page on All The Tropes was last updated in 2015. (Conflict-of-interest disclosure: I'm an admin at All The Tropes.)

If that is the case - and I have no statistics saying that it is or isn't - we might want to advertise GURPS on sites that gamers actually frequent instead of on TV Tropes.

I have no knowledge of All the Tropes, and have never gone there that I recall. I look at TVTropes all the time.

However, I've tried more than once to get recognized at TVTropes as a commenter. They claim they've e-mailed me the necessary logon information, but it's never arrived in my e-mail. So I've given up.

Andrew Hackard · 11-06-2016, 09:58 PM

Discussion of off-site drama is off-topic. Take it elsewhere.

11-06-2016, 03:55 PM	#1
Tallor Join Date: May 2016	Updating GURPS on tvtropes, anyone? My coding skills are rather lacking (at least with the system tvtropes uses) but I'd really like to contribute to the page, especially since no one seems to have touched it since 2011. Though if there are better ways of connecting the public with GURPS, I'd like to hear!

11-06-2016, 04:02 PM	#2
robkelk Untitled Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: between keyboard and chair	Re: Updating GURPS on tvtropes, anyone? I think a lot of the gamer-geeks left TV Tropes after The Second Google Incident - the equivalent page on All The Tropes was last updated in 2015. (Conflict-of-interest disclosure: I'm an admin at All The Tropes.) If that is the case - and I have no statistics saying that it is or isn't - we might want to advertise *GURPS* on sites that gamers actually frequent instead of on TV Tropes. __________________ Rob Kelk “Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.” – Bernard Baruch, Deming (New Mexico) Headlight, 6 January 1950 No longer reading these forums regularly.

11-06-2016, 05:31 PM	#3
trooper6 Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Medford, MA	Re: Updating GURPS on tvtropes, anyone? What is The Second Google Incident?

11-06-2016, 06:10 PM	#4
Nemoricus Join Date: Mar 2013	Re: Updating GURPS on tvtropes, anyone? The concise version is that Google, who manages TV Tropes' advertising, took exception to the content of some of the pages on the site. This resulted in a purge of potentially objectionable content, since TV Tropes relies on ad revenue to stay operating. A more extensive version can be found here: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...GoogleIncident

11-06-2016, 06:15 PM	#5
robkelk Untitled Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: between keyboard and chair	Re: Updating GURPS on tvtropes, anyone? I'll try to be somewhat more constructive... What's missing from the article (any version, on any of the tropes sites) that should be added? __________________ Rob Kelk “Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.” – Bernard Baruch, Deming (New Mexico) Headlight, 6 January 1950 No longer reading these forums regularly.

11-06-2016, 09:58 PM	#7
Andrew Hackard *Munchkin* Line Editor Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Austin, TX	Re: Updating GURPS on tvtropes, anyone? Discussion of off-site drama is off-topic. Take it elsewhere. __________________ Andrew Hackard, *Munchkin* Line Editor If you have a question that isn't getting answered, we have a thread for that. Let people like what they like. Don't be a gamer hater. #PlayMunchkin on social media: Twitter \|\| Facebook \|\| Instagram \|\| YouTube Follow us on Kickstarter: Steve Jackson Games and Warehouse 23