Board Thread:News and Events/@comment-5431934-20140605022044/@comment-24911350-20140605135452

Amet Revfold wrote: ThanhnuFia wrote: I don't like this idea, it will only bring down the quality of the fanon altogether. Solely because people won't bother to try and get their OCs to be accepted anymore, with the reason: "There is a freeform board, so we can have our OCs as OP and canon breaking as we want, and RP within it won't break the rules." You bring up a valid point, Flora. Standards are standards. But looking at it both ways, we, as a Fanon, are screwed. If it's allowed, the quality of OCs goes down, and our name declines. If we don't allow it, people will continue to bag on this place.

We tread on eggshells right now, the more I look at this. Maybe some careful deliberation is in order. But is it really a terrible loss to lose the kind of people who are upset because there are standards?

It doesn't seem so much an issue of balancing out how upset people will get as much as it's a decision about whether or not we want a larger community or a better one.