Poll: Cracked.com, or TVTropes

[evilneko]

I pretty much live on TvTropes (well, partly because of an RP). I even edit trope pages.

 

[superdelux]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH LINK TO CRACKED AND TVTROPES!!!! DAMN YOU, DAMN YOU TO HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OT: TVTropes is a bit better in my opinion.

 

[game-lover]

Hm... I might go with both.

Cracked and TVTropes are each respectively new sites to me. And every time I've visited each on impulse, I'll be there forever.

 

[TehCookie]

xkcd has a comic about everything.

I was stuck on that site all day yesterday. You can't just leave you have to read every tab which opens more tabs and it never ends!
[small]I need more willpower to get away.[/small]

 

[j0frenzy]

I tend to find Cracked a little too incendiary and prejudiced. They seem to think all their readers are young males with aggression problems and visions of manliness. So, I guess TVTropes by default, though Not Always Right is by far my preferred internet time sink.

 

[Aiddon_v1legacy]

Cracked, TV Tropes has a bad habit of being a sulking ground for way too many angry trolls

 

[Unfairestsquid]

Given the choice i would pick cracked because while TV tropes covers almost every type of media in existence cracked covers almost any topic in existence so theirs more stuff to hold my attention but on the other hand TV tropes has the better app because you don't need WiFi to use it

 

[Falcon123]

I'll put it like this: I've enjoyed my time with Cracked more as a general rule because the articles are varied and interesting and usually have a good sense of humor about them. But if I ever go to TVTropes, I'm not getting out for at least a couple hours. Far more addicting, IMO

 

[Worgen]

Cracked has probably caused my GPA to be at least half a point lower then it could have been.

 

[The_Echo]

Cracked holds my attention for longer, (and even then I normally skim articles) but I am by no means a regular to either site.

TV Tropes tends to use a lot of phrases that have their own pages to describe other things, making me have to visit another page to know what they're talking about. I don't like that at all. At the very least, I can read a Cracked article without having to do some independent reading.

It should also be noted that TV Tropes has a very basic visual aesthetic that isn't very appealing at all.

 

[BytByte]

For a couple of years now I have read every new list on Cracked that they add daily in my band class. Best way to spend a school period.

 

[GeorgW]

I enjoy them both, but Cracked has sucked way more of my life. I really can't say why I prefer cracked over TVtropes, I love TV more than general comedy, but I guess it's easier to find something I didn't know I'd like on Cracked.

 

[ace_of_something]

I kind of prefer TVtropes because it admits to being 'breezy non-factual' a lot of cracked articles are wrong or skewed for humor. Which would be fine if most people didn't take them as absolute truth.

I can think of instances when people on this VERY THREAD linked/quoted/referenced something from one of those articles and i knew it to be a half-truth. Admittedly though i read it pretty frequently. Just troubling how often people say 'you can't believe everything on the internet' out of one side of their mouth and then quote an article linking a poorly documented single study as a 'truth' out of the other.

Still funny as hell site though.

 

[Nu-Hir]

I've spent some time on TVTropes, but Cracked is like crack. So many awesome articles. You can always find another one to jump to, too. Sometimes, I wonder how true some of the articles are.

http://www.cracked.com/article_16611_5-real-world-criminals-who-were-certified-supervillains.html

Is this stuff true? Or do they make it up to be random and funny?

I'm almost positive their stories are true. The way they're written makes it appear they do a lot of research for their articles. With that said, I hate you, OP. The only way I could be madder is if you had another option of Imgur. Every time someone links me to any of those three sites I don't leave for at least three hours. I also hate everyone who has posted a link that I now have an open tab for.

 

[Astoria]

Cracked easy for me. Maybe there's something wrong with me but I got bored of TV tropes in about a minute.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

I like 'em both, actually. What I don't like is being sucked into articles and not being able to get back...

 

[AgentBJ09]

I like 'em both, actually. What I don't like is being sucked into articles and not being able to get back...

Don't we all. Be sure to avoid the end of the articles, and the text usually tells you when it's coming.

I'm almost positive their stories are true. The way they're written makes it appear they do a lot of research for their articles. With that said, I hate you, OP. The only way I could be madder is if you had another option of Imgur. Every time someone links me to any of those three sites I don't leave for at least three hours. I also hate everyone who has posted a link that I now have an open tab for.

Glad to hear it. The thread's doing far better than I expected, and now I have another instrument of compulsion to play around with.

All I need now is Dr. Insano's swirly goggles, and I'll be set.

 

[The Shade]

Cracked, by a huge margin. I love their writing styles, their topics, their graphics department, and even the novels written by the staff editors.

TVtropes is just stupid, and a complete mess. Whoever designed that site is in dire need of a basic design course.