Board Thread:The Official Announcement Board/@comment-4869113-20150718180437/@comment-26116199-20150720034036

Like Doom said, edits do not necessarily mean too much. Create thirty shitty characters with thirty jutsu each and boom, you already have 900 edits. Edits don't always warrant deservedness.

At a bare minimum, people should sufficiently describe how they received a certain said power/technique, it's okay if they can't add a long ass Gilgamesh Epic at the start; just a little explanation would do for starters. For example, let's say I have the Wood Release. An inadequate explanation would probably go on these lines:

Solo has the Wood Release because it runs in his family. He is very skilled with its' use.

It runs in his family? How so? Which side? How did something so rare manifest? Isn't Wood Release supposed to be rare? Were any one of his parents experimented on? Hell was he experimented on and led to believe it ran in the family? Would this backstory be sufficient? People need to at least come up with a concrete how. That way you get the power you want your character to have, and you give justice to him/her in the process and you get points for effort. Hell I may not be following some of this with my own older pages, may be a little hypocritical but hey, just my views as of now.

Same would generally go for techniques. This is a fanon, people should be able to freely craft a character of their dreams without restriction, but they should also realise that at least some form of presentation is necessary to properly potray and do some justice to their characters. You want a Rinnegan? Cool, have it! Just elaborate on how you received it; something that big shouldn't be gifted just like that. You want something big, you need to show some work for it. Same thing applies here.

I'd suggest what had been done unto me to be done unto others (not to sound Biblical, but yeah). I was advised several times to add content before I had my chars names added to locked pages. I did so, left a notice on the said admin's wall and they'd grant me my tech. I find that to have been pretty efficient now when I look back; t'was worth the wait. Perhaps admins could continue doing that as a whole when somebody were to hit em up for a locked tech.

As a community, I know many of us here reach out to help newer users. I've seen Cam, Prince, the admins, and many, many others do so, various times. Helpfulness is one thing that truly isn't lacking here, and I'll agree fully with Prince's lines:

"We call come together and help one another. As simple as that. Don't put don't down others ideas because you think its not good enough, BUT, show then better, more effecitent alternative solution or even try to make it to where their idea can work in itself."

^That's how we must sway mindsets—by example. We don't need to enforce any stupid restrictions or anything. People come in, many wanna make Uchihas because Uchihas were plainly and clearly the most badass and flashy in Naruto, that's how Kishi portrayed them. Of course when you mature in the site (or unless you were lucky to be born with natural, innate hatred for them), you tend to realise that they're pretty damn overrated as a whole, but many new users don't realise that. And the beauty is, they don't have to. We don't need restrictions and shit on Uchiha members, we don't need to limit people's creativity or their goals.

I think the only time a character is bad for possessing Sharingan, 8Gates, Rinne and other stuff is when they meld the best of all the abilities into one. If you're a jack of all trades, you're a master of none. A single 15 year old character shouldn't be able to craft a Perfect Susanoo, open the Seventh Gate, lock his opponent in an unbreakable Genjutsu, utilise virtually invisible shadows while simultaneously possessing Six Creepy Ass Paths; that's not creativity—that's godmodding. Standards in my opinion are such; creativity, dedication, quality and dedication. Das all.