User blog comment:SelenaZephyr/An Open Letter to the Community/@comment-7468226-20140120164214/@comment-7468226-20140120175513

As someone who once made an OC (only to have it killed by Rain) I cannot bring myself to submit him even with your well thought out rebuttle. The thing is is he is just too imaginative,--to different-- from the established canon for me to actually submit him with a hopeful chance.

You may offer a good rebuttle, but that doesn't change the fact I still feel as though the reviewing process is bias and creativity-snubbing. Everyday, I see great ideas rejected for a small issue, such as Semblance, which isrediculous because we don't know how it works. We do not know Semblances' properties or attributes. For all we know, it can be anything.

I know for a fact my OC would be rejected on saveral basis, but at the same time, I see no large, coherent checklist that I can use to make sure mycharacter is still a unique snowflake with creativity. I feel as though there is no good criteria for me to gauge my character with.

Futhermore, I feel as though only REALLY canon-friendly characters are being accepted.