Board Thread:Hints and Tips by the Mizukage!/@comment-3030647-20151113015230/@comment-28861328-20151116012759

That, and it misses the actual "problem" here by about 100 yards.

I get that it is a dream of this community to make the mainstream (Uchiha, Senju, Otsutsuki, Uzumaki, Jinchuriki, Dojutsu) become non-mainstream, but I'll say once what I've always said: It'll never happen. As long as you continue to get new users on this site, the majority of whom consider those mainstream factors to be their inspiration, then that's exactly the type of articles you're going to receive.

Not to mention, this is a fanon/fan-fiction site. What story, set in a pre-established universe, has ever been worth reading when the characters in question have all been lowly, no-tallent, useless Genin/Chunin? None that I've ever read. Certainly none on this website. Combine that with the fact that every single attempt to create a site-wide "canon" has failed miserably or just fallen into disrepair, making the creation of "weak side-characters" completely pointless.

Most users are here to roleplay and, since consistent story-telling has flown completely out the window in favor of RP battles that basically amount to 'who has the biggest cock', the logical conclusion is to create a character that can compete in this field. Back in the day, this stuff was still rampant, but there was a time period that I remember where there was a flourishing of weaker side characters. It tended to happen whenever bands of roleplayers were formed (naturally; not artificially like a Fanon Canon) and inter-linked their stories. Plot demands more than just a main character with god-like powers, so the natural reaction was to create not-so-powerful characters to support the story.

Put simply, you're all wasting your breaths. Whether it is the consensus of the chat or not doesn't matter, because a lot of the people who made that "consensus" have obnoxiously powerful characters themselves and are, therefore, not leading by example. Not to mention, Prince was right: OP is in the eyes of the beholder. It is easy to say "his character is OP" while furiously explaining away all the reasons that your own divinely-touched character is an exception to the rule.

This challenge is nice and all, but if the goal is to eradicate perceived "OP" characters and also to cleanse the site of mainstream character types, I will go ahead and tell you the result: you will fail. No matter how many rules you put in place, how many challenges you issue, how many speeches you give, or how many consensuses you reach, the simple fact is that this site, at the end of the day, is a fanon site for everyone - not just a core group of users who have their own agenda about what is or isn't needed here. It is also not a site of aspiring authors, obviously, because most authors move on from fan-fiction (if they even write it at all) at some point or another. Fan fiction isn't considered "good writing" in any writer's circle; conversely, it is almost always considered the bane of fiction (or writing in general). So let's get away from the "good-writing" sermon. It doesn't help you and it doesn't help your friends here, since good advice would be to get away from fan fiction post-haste.

One of these days you guys will take my advice (and, since I'm no longer an admin, I really don't care if you do or you don't, I'm just reiterating what I've always said). The second you all stop trying to control what everyone else around you is doing and focus on improving your own writing, the site will flourish into the wonderful garden you all want it to be. Until then, though, you're going to keep making rules and preaching, and people are going to continue to find loopholes to avoid your rules and ignore your preaching. Which is fine, because you're looking for those same loopholes and exits. After all, that's why almost every person preaching in this thread, myself included, has a god-level character (except, I can have a clear conscience, since the point of this "rant" is to say 'stop caring about other people's crap and focus on your own').

That is all I have to say. I'll pop in again sometime, or maybe I won't. *shrugs*