Board Thread:News and Events/@comment-27603392-20151222104757/@comment-10337166-20160222111823

@915 and @Eme

Hi, actual member of staff here. Reasons being as to why pending was opened for our OC's first was an amalgamation of reasons.

First being we decided to test rules on a small percentage of the OC's on site to see if there were any glaring things which would lead to legions of OC's getting rejected. So far it's been pretty good actually, which is really nice.

Secondly; Generally staff OC's are less likely to be rejected and are often easier to review. We wanted to get those OC's done now before the massive tidal wave of other OC's hits pending and basically swamps our reviewers.

Thirdly, doing it this way gives staff time to find new temp reviewers for the duration of the re-review, meaning when your OC's hit pending it'll be done quicker.

And finally, staff as a whole spent weeks working on these new rules, we spent sever 4+ hour skype calls agonizing over, and working on them to make it as close to canon as possible. Getting our OC's reviewed first is the least of what some people on staff are owed. Leaf/Alex in particular especially Leaf who has been working tirelessly to ensure these rules are as close to perfect as they can be.

ERGO, it's this way because dammit staff earned something for all the work we did and it's not going to kill you to wait an extra week to jam your OC in pending like everybody else.