User blog:Silver-Haired Seireitou/RPCQE Minimum Grade Requirement Change

Hello everybody, I've come to bring something to everybody's attention. After giving it some personal thought and from a discussion between myself and Njalm, I've decided that it may be best to change the minimum grade requirement for passing the RPCQ Exam. Originally, you needed an 85 out of a possible 100 in order to pass the exam, but this suggested change will reduce the number to 75' instead.

Now, there are both sides of the argument here. When I first put forth this exam, 85 seemed to be a fair choice. The grammar section should always be close to a perfect score, because it's not that hard to just proofread your article before submitting it and making sure to keep to the Manual of Style standards. And the Appearance section isn't as strict because there is only so much you can write about a character's physical appearance. In my opinion, the real meat of the character should be their Personality section, their History section, and their Abilities section. And the original 85 points minimum would have allowed for you to lose up to 5 points on each of these three. To me, it seemed fair enough. But perhaps it may be too much.

75 may be a more fair choice. But I would not like to make any significant changes without consulting the userbase on BFF, because this is not just my site, it belongs to all of us. And the site's minimum level of expected quality should be something we can all agree on. We want BFF to promote quality but not by undermining freedom of expression, so this is why I would like to hear everybody's thoughts on the subject.

Should we keep it at 85? Or reduce it to 75? Or do you have a different score you believe it should be set at? I'm open to hearing everybody's thoughts, from both the admins and the users. --Silver-Haired Seireitou (talk) 00:29, June 19, 2014 (UTC)