Thread:Silver-Haired Seireitou/@comment-24984058-20141112235518/@comment-2089817-20141114025528

Prodi, this is the way I see it.

On NF, the reason it is so hard to maintain quality of work is because there is no agreed upon minimum quality that users agree on. That's why when somebody like me goes to say something, they misconstrue it as me bullying them, while very few operators or admins go to say something. This creates a system where users can just wave away any responsibility to improve themselves by simply accusing the person giving the criticism as being a "cyberbully", and then the matter gets dropped. And this continues, so on and so on, until you end up with a site like NF that simply can't improve anymore because that system is so deeply intertwined into their way of doing things. The RPCQE serves as a precedent for the minimum level of quality we expect from users. Perhaps not in length (since not everybody wants to make their characters 25,000 bytes), but at the very least in actual content. Even if users, somewhere down the line, still end up not following the expectations put forth by the RPCQE they took, they have absolutely no justification in saying we're bullying them nor that they "can't do it", because the RPCQE proved that they CAN do it and that the person giving criticism is simply telling them what the RPCQE told them. There's no room there for arguing over quality.

Now then. Z was correct. And thank GOD somebody agrees with me about that horrid piece of shit article. Like, Jesus Christ. But I'm digressing. The MoS is about format, not quality of work. If anything, it is the foundation of the RPCQE, not the same thing. And regarding the committee, well like I said before. Without a precedent set forth that the entire community is expected to follow, you don't have much leeway in telling new users about their need to improve without giving them a chance at accusing them of bullying them. Yes, the current userbase respects one another, but what's to say that for new users that may come to the site later down the road? Point is, you can't. This system puts a very good framework on our site that really has proven to help. I don't mean to be rude to you, or mean, but most of your side of the argument sounds like a personal matter rather than a matter of the site. That you yourself don't have the time, and therefore, this is no good. And I'm sorry Prodi, but as valued a member as you are of this site, I'm not going to abolish a system that has proven itself to work very well just because one or two people don't have the time to do something that... I mean really, they WOULD already be doing when they first come to this site. I mean, what, are you telling me users shouldn't be making weaker characters first before making strong characters? I really don't want to send that message to newer users. Z himself said that he doesn't facepalm as much anymore about newer characters because the RPCQE prevents users who just come on making willy-nilly Aizen people without caring about their fellow community and the work we put forth into our own articles. It sets a very good precendent for people to follow, and we simply assume good faith that after they pass, they will learn that we are a site that cares about quality and they will adapt to those expectations. If they don't, well, then that's why we have admins to talk with those users.

Now, if we still can't see eye to eye after this, then there's very little I can say anymore. To this date, you're the only person I recall, except for Mang (who I believe I convinced after a discussion on chatango), so that really doesn't give me enough reason to abolish the RPCQE. I hope this doesn't discourage you, as I'm happy you've returned to being active on BFF and the last thing I want is to run you off, but trust me when I say that the RPCQE is like... one-eighth of the work that the NF apps are. So just give it a chance, alright? Can I ask you to give it a chance, if only as a favor to me?