User blog comment:Berserkchart486/Sei's Original Fanon Canon Character Review Post/@comment-1875854-20141213215039

So addressing what has happened below, I have come up with a "clause" for those characters having been applied for in Rebirth beforehand. However it is not a freebie by any means, it is meant to meet some concerns:

The Clause
Characters having been approved in this forum: Board:Rebirth: Archived Applications do not have to be reapplied through this new system. Any apps still sitting will be judged, and any approved will fall under this category as well. As a result this forum should stay as reference for anyone who tries to say they were approved and weren't.

However, this does not mean the SCQE does not apply to your characters and creations that have been grandfathered. The point of the SCQE, as well as the applications, is to help improve page quality, while the SCQE directly assesses the character as a whole. As a result, even grandfathered characters can/will be subject to these exams. But the difference is this will be done "as needed."

What is as needed? Well if another user suggests that your character should do this exam, you have 3 options:

1. Submit the exam for the character, so it can be reviewed.

2. Ignore them, move on.

3. Fix it, or have an operator justify your character.

However if this problem persists, you may find yourself doing 1 or 3 anyway. Operators, should this clause be approved of, should have the power (and do actually) to review a character, address another user's concerns and require the user to submit the creation in this test, '''only in an effort to improve writing quality and logic. Regardless of preference, you should take this as being required.''' Your character should pass any way, if you continue to insist it doesn't need it, right?

And there is no convincing that "Grandfathered characters/creations do not need this exam." Because that is only partially true. Some don't but yet, as Sei and others has pointed out, do. As a result, anyone can review a character and suggest it to take this exam. And if an operator requires it, it should be done. Not to bully you but to make sure it meets the standards in the exam. For example: Kami was submitted for this exam and actually failed by Serk though she was approved by the previous system. While I'm not necessarily going to make her reapply or have other operators finish judgement, I will require that Daz has to fix the problems Serk found in her article before having Sayuri in more, new roleplays. If she wishes to submit the exam again, she may for clearer approval. But really all is required is for an op to see she made the necessary changes, especially where Kamui and Rasengan are concerned. She also cannot add Hashi's Cells without undergoing this app.

Another thing, if you add another thing to your approved character, you may/will have to do this for the character. That depends on what you added. If it was restricted, (anything that needed an app in the previous system), than yes, you should submit this app. However even if what you added isn't restricted, if an operator requests you submit the ability and the character for the SCQE, you would be required to do so to "justify" the ability/character/addition.

The point of this exam is to improve writing quality and logic, as well as build respect for your work. And this clause is meant to build/improve something else: a community's respect for other's work, and for them to be a certain quality and follow "Naruto logic" and common sense. As a result, this clause can only work if the community (the people participating in this project) and suggest characters that should undergo this new system to improve their quality and logic. As Sei often says, we should care more about the quality/logic of others' work as well. So if you can, please look over FC Rebirth characters that may need this application and suggest the users to it. But please don't hassle the users, as you must have a real reason for doing so that you should tell the user along with suggesting they take the exam. Also, you may also help them improve the article, or direct them an operators way so we can help them as well.

Disclaimer

 * Since Serk told me, shortly before his resignation that this application applies to characters without restricted content was well, this also grandfathers any character made before this blog was put up. However, they can always be referred here anyway. Any new characters from this point need to submit this exam to be used in Rebirth. This is officially a character exam. My apologies to Ded who I told he didn't need to.

What if I don't follow?
The operators can punish you or remove you from Rebirth. This is because the nature of this system is to improve your page as a whole. Refusing to follow it sends a message that you don't have a desire to listen to the community or the operators who only wish for a better Rebirth we can all be proud of. This means you can be subject to warnings, etc or just have the character/creation in question removed from the project and any rps they have participated in will be made invalid.

Thoughts Needed!
Normally a section in my newspaper, I would like to see thoughts on this clause below and if it will work for everyone. I plan to put it in, but if you have reasonable concern with this idea, please address it in a reply to the comment or my own wall. However, concerns and support alike should refrain from using degrading language to downgrade ideas or other users, along with their writing quality. If a user disagrees with you, please don't go back and forth here. People don't want to read a fight. I'm just hoping for a civil discussion about this, as the ultimate goal with this is for the community and operators as well to take a more active role with this system, so it can fulfill its purpose. Any questions, feel free to ask!