User blog comment:ArtistOfTheDaleks/This Wikia is Officially Fucked/@comment-2089817-20200111212430

"NF Admins are stealing this community from the very people whom built it up in the first place and it is disgraceful."

Ahem. Okay. Well, from one of the people who actually built this place up from the start, as in one of the users who was part of the original generation that first worked on NF and helped build it up over years of effort and struggle, over countless iterations of NF models, before passing it on to the next generation, I would like to say that you're completely off your nutter and you need to shut up.

The admins have done what I didn't think was possible, and they kept NF going well past its prime. I started in 2008 and kept working years and years into it, for damn near half a decade, before I realized it was my time to move on. I tried countless different ways to run this site and to help others run this site, and each iteration presented new challenges. For every solution, three new obstacles arose. And eventually I realized this site was unable to keep going, at least from my leadership. So I passed it on and move forward. And I thought NF would crumble eventually. But no. It didn't. Ben was the prime factor that helped make that happen, but it was also because the other admins worked their ass off to keep NF afloat. Even Prince, who back in the day was notorious for being one of the worse-off users in the community, worked hard and rose through the ranks to become one of the admins. And despite all of that, he does a damn good job if I do say so myself.

All of that, just to have someone who never outgrew his noob days say this wiki is fucked? You haven't earned the right. You have no idea what this site has been through and how many models have been tried here to get it right. How much experience has been shared among the users here spanning over a decade. You have absolutely no right to spout off any bullshit about this wiki being fucked or anything of the sort.

You have confused 'free expression and unrestricted artistic creation' for power stacking. Plain and simple. You are among the issues that plague the fan fiction community and are part of why fan fiction itself is looked down upon. Because you seem to equate freedom of 'creativity' with "I want my character to have all the Naruto and Sasuke stuff with some more stuff thrown in". You are a power stacker. You want solely to create the strongest character, give them everything you think is cool, and think you are a creative writer. Well let me tell you something. From one past powerstacker (because yes, I am guilty of having been that way in the past) to a present powerstacker, you are not a writer. You are not a creative writer. You are not creative whatsoever.

The rules in place now are due in part to an effort to encourage actual creativity and fresh ideas. Not falling back on more Mangekyo, more Rinnegan, more Sage Mode. Naruto is a world full of potential, but you think that because you're denied the right to create Sage RinneSharingan Balls, that somehow limits your ability to work in the Naruto universe? If you were actually a creative writer, you would take this as an opportunity to expand beyond your usual areas of writing and explore new ideas. That's the point of fan fiction. To take what the authors created and expand them beyond the presented universe. Not to just fall back on their tired canon material and stick a new name on it.

By all means, if you're only interested in making Naruto and Sasuke 2.0, and you just want to fuck around with Sage Mode and Sharingan and every Nature combination under the Sun with a single character, then go somewhere else. Go somewhere where they don't care what shit you people do. Oh wait, you can't. Because they don't exist. Because those place don't last. It's only places like this, with a community that works hard to continuously expand creativity and opportunities, and who constantly push their users to challenge the usual conventional content that the source material puts out, those are the places that still exist.

But don't pretend it's about free expression and unrestricted artistic creation. It's not. You just want to make your character uberpowerful and that's all this is about. You don't want to strain the three remaining brain cells you have to even consider something that isn't Sage Mode or Dojutsu. Because it's too much work. And I don't blame you. It is hard to be creative. And maybe that just isn't for you. So maybe consider fucking off to an empty site and filling it up with your powerstacked characters, and leave the actual creative writers to continue to work and have a good time. Sound good? Great.