Board Thread:News and Events/@comment-24087318-20140907042818/@comment-24087318-20140907235605

There already was discussioning about what exactly the exceptions would be, And this wasn't a change in the rules at all, this was just posting one of the rules that was highly, HIGHLY ignored in a place where everyone can see it, because nobody was following it.

And yes, I agree it's a little tight and includes some things it really should. But it doesn't matter. It has to be re-submitted.

This serves multiple purposes.

Firstly, as we've had to see this month, with our Featured OC. Featured characters *must* be Accepted. And if we choose an OC that's been Accepted, but look in their history and see that they've added Semblances, Abilities, Weapons, anything that would warrant a re-review, it's automatically thrown into Pending and another OC is chosen. Making this rule better known helps to prevent cases like this from happening.

Second, being tight on the rules, and making no exceptions is yes, more work than the Staff argueably needs, however. As it was stated, when we allow exceptions, we create loopholes and/or people can just tweak things however they want under the guise of "just adding pictures" so we see a fifty-character changelog and don't even bother looking for what exactly it is.

Thirdly, and as much as I shouldn't say it. Having the rules be this way helps to limit people from say, editing their character pages a little bit every day after they've been Accepted. Since if they know they'll be re-submitted, they'll keep the edits to a minimum, and/or only edit the pages in question when there's a good amount that needs to be changed/added.

This also causes a thing where people will make a small change, realize it needs to be re-submitted, and say "Hey, since I have to re-submit anyways, I should change some other things I'm not liking all that much too." And vastly improve the quality of their own pages.