Thread:Silver-Haired Seireitou/@comment-18812574-20140307060449/@comment-2089817-20140307064504

It shouldn't be confusing, the point was made quite clear. It's not a difficult concept to grasp. Too many users run around here creating Super Saiyan Captain characters, and quite frankly, it makes our site look back and it is spitting in the face of users who actually care about the value of their work. It makes us look like a joke. If a user can't even successfully create a weaker character that can be considered well-made, then they have no business creating strong characters, it's as simple as that.

But I'll address your concerns one by one.

1. Perhaps you have somewhat of a point, but if that were the case, we might as well excuse all anons and vandalism as well. Because, you know, they have a right to express their freedom to mess with your articles, isn't that so? Oh, but wait, that's sort of annoying for people who want to make good articles on here, isn't it? What a shame. You see my point? It's the same situation. You might call it infringing on user rights, but I call letting every Tom, Dick, and Harry storm the site with power-crazed Ichigo spam being an infringement on users who take their work seriously.

2. It isn't considered powerful, that's the entire POINT of this exam. This isn't a matter of "permission", it's a matter of assessment of skills. To force users to create a weak character and show their ability to focus on the important qualities of a character. Like back story, personality, characteristics, et cetera. If a user can't muster that up for even a low-level character, they have absolutely NO business making Lieutenant, Captain, or higher level characters. At all.

3. The point of that, regardless of the wait time, is to give all users a fair chance. To let the decision of only one or two users decide another user's fate when it comes to a matter like this is unfair and should be a more important matter to take into account. You might have to wait a little longer but the overall point is worth the wait when you consider this is to improve the condition of the site.

4. Users who don't get involved with this exam, refuse to take it, or fail it, must simply restrict themselves to only making Fourth Seat level characters and below from now on. This means any currently weak characters you've already made can't be made stronger. But, any characters you've made that are stronger than that level are grandfathered in; meaning they are not affected by the rule. If this hinders you, then take the exam. Honestly, we're not asking something so difficult. If you can't even do this, then you have no business making powerful characters.

It's not "poorly thought out", it is the best solution to a bad situation. It'll weed out users who simply can't meet the minimal standards that SHOULD be expected from a community such as ours. It's honestly silly to think a user who takes his own work seriously can't even muster up a character that will pass the exam. We're not asking for an impossible task here, seriously. I've been on this site since its conception, and I'd rather not watch it burn down into literary ashes like our sister site TBF.