User blog comment:Kgman04/Trivia Rules/@comment-1756703-20101125232455

I agree with this blog post. I remember a while back that I went on a personal mission to trim down trivia sections because of just how bloated and space-consuming they got. And back then, there was a lot of bad trivia.

However, I would argue that the third example you gave as good trivia (the "Leshawna and Harold have both placed fifth in a season" one) could be considered bad trivia in my books, and my reasoning for that is simple. First off, it seems like that statistic is mere coincidence. And secondly... so what?

To me, bad trivia consists of trivia that has no point, no interesting side note to add, and/or no factual basis. Even in the context of the Leshawna-Harold Relationship, trivia like that doesn't belong because a) there's no proven correlation between that and the relationship itself, and b) it's not consistent (neither of them placed that high in TDWT -- it only happened in the first two seasons), thus making it seem more and more like mere coincidence.