[Prestwick]

Am I the only person in the western world who finds TV tropes an absolute nightmare to use or even make sense of? I did try to use it once or three times and each time I went away even more confused as to how exactly I was meant to use this site.

It felt a bit like a car boot (yard) sale: everything just chucked out there in public view with little or no actual organisation only at TV Trope's car boot sale the visiting public can dump their own stuff as well which increases the mess to fantastical levels.

[Mage]

The first few times I was on TV Tropes I felt that way... but then it suddenly clicked and omg there went my life...

But, yes, it is incredibly disorganised.

[Sen]

It's huge and unorganized, yes, and actually using it would be pretty damn hard. But if you read it there're some things that you won't forget, and therein lies its...value...?

It's amusing, anyway. In a "Oh, so THAT'S what that was" kind of way. Kind of like the first time you learn of common logical fallacies.

[Prestwick]

This debate is basically down to those who love yard sales and TK/TJ Maxx and those who'd rather go shop on Amazon.com 

[Mage]

I like both!

I'm pretty used to wadding through garbage on teh interwebs, though.  Too many years spent at the pit of voles...

[majic13]

TVTropes is the kind of thing where you click on one article, and it references other tropes so you open those in a new tab to understand what that trope's about, and from there you encounter three or four more tropes and then suddenly holy crap three hours have passed and you've got two dozen browser tabs open. D: