Thread:Silver-Haired Seireitou/@comment-18812574-20140307060449/@comment-2089817-20140308023836

Listen SCB, if I was asking for some kind of difficult assessment, then I'd be more inclined to agree with you when it comes to your concerns. Quite honestly, like I've been saying, I'm not asking for something that is impossible. In fact, anybody on this site that gives even a single shit about the quality of their work would have already made a character that could pass this exam hands down. This is honestly a formality, if anything else, and will allow us to identity the users who treat this like a joke when others here are serious authors determined to work on their skills as writers and to create amazing works.

Here's the thing though, SCB. You're playing fast and loose with terms such as "legislature", "commonwealth", et cetera. You need to take a step back from Capitol Hill and look at things from another point of view. This site isn't just a standard "public site". If it were, then users should not be allowed to have articles under their property. We'd be a site like Bleach Wiki, Narutopedia, and so on, where all articles are free to edit and nobody can prevent edits so long as nobody is breaking rules. We actually are, by definition, a private community in that we have rules and users who can't follow those rules are kicked the fuck out. Maybe we're not a private site, as any user can come here, but the COMMUNITY is private, in that new users wishing to come to join this community have to respect those already in the community. We're not going to bend over and make our community unbearable just so we don't trample on another user's fun.

There are supposed to be standards here, a set bar to follow, and lately, we haven't done anything to enforce it. This exam thing might not be the perfect way to go about it, perhaps there are better approaches, but I brought this to the site's attention, users all seemed to be for it, including Admins, and I got the sign off from many Admins, including the Head Admin Ten, and subsequently this rule was established. Now, maybe it seems unfair, but it's honestly quite easy and it'd go much smoother if we could just get over it. If you're a user who respects his work, passing this exam is pretty much child's play, it really is.