Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-17970636-20160207055451

Alright, more of these informational-type threads being made by yours truly. Expect more in the near future, but I highly recommend you read through all of this and keep it bookmarked as it will be useful in the near future probably.

So for starters, the re-review. It's happening, no going about it two ways, but here's just some basic information before it happens.

So, RWBY ends next week, that's the season finale. And as soon as that happens, any available staff members will go through and basically take everything out of the "Accepted Character" category sans the Accepted Character Placeholder which was made so we don't lose said Accepted Character category. Then throughout the process of what may be a few hours to a week, the rules will be updated with new information, some stuff will be removed, some added, whatnot.

Now, here's the deal, if you intend on making fanfictions on this site then I highly recommend you do not submit your OC for pending because once a character goes through Pending, it's RP ready, if you don't intend to Role Play as your character and whatnot I highly recommend you don't put it through Pending, especially if you have fanfictions planned which will be ruined if one aspect of your character is rejection worthy. Fair warning in advance.

Then there's the order of which reviews will happen. Once the rules are remade all the staff characters that need to be reviewed will be reviewed. There's a reason for this. In the 1.4 k currently accepted characters, staff make up a good 1/7th of that, and since there are a least a couple hundred OCs in Accepted which aren't even being used and are three years old, well, one gets the point.

After the staff OCs are reviewed then reviewing will be open to the rest of the community, during which time we'll do our utmost best to get characters accepted and up and running. Please note that odds are that characters in Pending will be able to be RPd with, but in case of rejection, any RP said character is in will be put on hold until put back in Pending/Accepted. This is conjecture at this point in time though and isn't one hundred percent certain to be done. So don't take this at face value.

Then there's the reviews themselves.

Staff, mainly the reviewers, are going to be putting a lot of time, effort, out of their schedules to make sure that this happens, just to keep this place running. this is just basic common etiquette which people appear to have forgotten or simply choose to ignore, but if you don't like a review, then you don't argue with it. Just because what you wrote down isn't being accepted, and you don't like that, doesn't allow you the luxury of being argumentative because frankly, reviewers volunteer to do tihs and spend a lot of their time which they could spend doing other things reviewing characters.

If you disagree with a review, keep it to yourself, don't go ranting on the reviewer's message wall, don't post a message in reply, because reviewers do not need to deal with that. The word of a reviewer is law, and one better abide to that because no matter what you or someone else says a reviewer's decision can only be rescinded by another reviewer who personally believes that the review is wrong.

So please, don't whine, we don't need that and it'll make everyone a lot happier, okay?

Leaf. 