User blog comment:SelenaZephyr/An Open Letter to the Community/@comment-8182065-20140120204945

Scrolled down, saw a lot of opinionated paragraphs and don't intend to look through them all (might take a chance to look at some other members' views though).

For me, I honestly don't find anything to be wrong with the rules of the Fanon. Rules are here for a reason so nobody makes and RPs with the most OP character ever. The reviewers and mods are the ones who enforce the rules, making sure the characters are fit to be thrown into Remnant as well as finding flaws in the character the creator didn't notice or help them be more descriptive. They help find holes and contradictions in backstories, personality, and etc. which helps the creator fix them, to make them a better character. "To err is human" as they say, and it's good to get help on those mistakes.

The whole process of getting reviewed is seen as a scary thing though; my opinion is it's a fear of rejection. If the user's OC were to get rejected they might feel discouraged about even being on the Fanon, especially if its a constant thing for a while and when some OCs get accepted right away. To those users, I just want to say don't be afraid of getting a Rejected verdict because there is a reason why it happened, and it would say so in the review. The character won't be in Rejected for long unless you want them there, and there would be a viable reason always for it to be rejected in the first place.

Now on the talk of Semblances, since I'm at Rejection right now, that's one thing that's really increasing they're character's Rejection rate. As of now, it's the only thing I'm seeing a strict review on; the Semblance in question may be original but doesn't stick to what we know in canon. And there's that the rule about Fanon characters not having the same abilities and such as someone from Canon, like Ruby's speed Semblance, that kind of steers people off a bit, especially since nobody can have a Semblance used by a canon character as well. That kind of ticks me off only because I know there are billions of people in the world; even though it has to be a "unique" to your character, you're bound to find someone with similar abilities, so someone else might have a Speed-related Semblance. It's the thing about it being "unique" to the character that makes me think I'm the only one who has a different view on Semblances. Rather than being an ability solely for one person, it just has to be used in a different more original way. The only thing I see most Fanon members pulling off successfully would be Glyphs, because multiple characters we've seen use them differently.

I myself have had 2 characters who encountered a Semblance issue, so I just decided to take them out and wait since they were the only thing holding them back at this point in time. When More info about the topic is learned, I will figure out a way to add them back in though, so the idea hasn't been tossed away.

I agree to the fact that RWBY is still a young series, and since Monty isn't giving us any info, the episodes will stay short, and we'll have to wait a while for the other volumes to come out, it's going to take a while for our knowledge of Remnant to expand. I still enjoy my time on the fanon (only thing I need to do is go on chat every once in a while).