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Ok, I have been observing the last several posts... and intervening felt like the right thing to do.

Understand that this is from a third party. I am trying to keep this as rational as possible.

There is a miss-communication. Tri, I know you're trying to move it along to something else, but I agree that this kind of thing is a very important matter. Misunderstandings are our biggest enemies- mistaking fellow role player's intentions, taking insults personally, or not catching our own mistakes- this is what mods strive to eliminate or help sort- one of the sources of our problems.

Maho is trying to 1) point out the certain words you use to show your thoughts. Words like "Twit, stupid and ego" and phrases "don't hesitate to leave, It's his loss" instantly shut others down to what you are saying, or trying to get across.

Let's start with that. sweatdrop

Of course everyone is free to go, but I would perfer it if people brought they're problems to me in a diplomatic way. I think that having the full blown villain shut down was not the best idea, but it brought some things to light. The debate is over, lets try to start out fresh and work on the story.

I agree -eats a cookie-

I have a question about the unknown thing. I have to disagree with it honestly. My vigilante is unknown. If someone doesn't want other people to know something about their character, then they can hide it in their profile and just put unknown or leave some small info for people to go off of because they don't want anyone to know something about their character until they reveal it themselves. That can be an issue at times especially in several roleplays I was in. One roleplay had this girl who posted everything about the character and specifically said that no one should know anything about her. Next thing you know, someone "Pulls up files" on her character when it was said in her profile in parenthesis she didn't want anyone to know anything about her character until she revealed it herself, so she made another profile and had most of everything in white while also keeping a little info out on the side to give people to go off of.

What I am saying is that if a person doesn't want someone to know something about their character, have them notify a mod that they have some things hidden in their profile and tell them to highlight if need be, but at the same time, give the other roleplayers something to give off about the character. If they don't want to do that, then have them just do a profile for the mods. It's considered godmodding when they make a character that seems to be immune to everything or too perfect. This is my thought on it is all.

I have to agree to both about the unknown thing. Leave something at least for people to know about a mysterious character, but if you don't want something to be known about the character, you don't have to reveal it.

I like a few of her ideas; but there are some I do not like.

1) you can not limit what a person and say or how they choice to describe their character. If they do not have a picture for them then they will need to describe them in great details like you pointed out here.
Destiny Love is 5'6 and weighs 100 lbs. She has platinum blonde hair and sparkling blue eyes. She is a human but she is on the side of the mutants and is good friends with Xavier. She goes to Xavier's school and is captain of their cheerleading squad. She has a crush on Bobby Drake, but he doesn't know it. Right know, she is wearing a pink tank top from Abercrombie and Fitch and a white miniskirt with ruffles. She is wearing purple eyeshadow and red lipstick.

This is not a sign of GM'ing, details are important to any RP. The more detailed and descriptive something is the more others will be able to visualize and see what the poster is seeing.

2) Eventhough I agree some people can come up with some odd names, who are we to tell them that they can not use that name just because we do not like it. As long as it isn't something outrageous like some of the user names on this site then there will be no problem.
Try to name your character something reasonable. It doesn't have to have some kind of meaning, though that would help. It doesn't have to be fancy. After all, Jean Grey and Scott Summers are examples of names of characters in X-men, and they're not fancy. The mutant nickname (like Cyclops or Wolverine) should have some meaning, but it's usually not hard to think of a name. There's a difference between their mutant name and their real name. Please don't just give your character a weird name just because it sounds cool. In reality, it usually sounds pretty stupid. I've heard of names like Butterfly Fire and Jade Diamond. Who the hell would name their kids that? You don't have to give your character a really common name, but try not to go overboard on the weirdness.

I would love for people to use more reasonable names but you have to understand that some people do not want to their character to have a normal name and would want you to refer to them by their Hero/Villain name. (Example: The Joker will be called Joker no matter what, and the Red Tornado will be the Red Tornado always.)

3) As I stated before unknowns can be used just so long as its not over used like you will have to put something down for your Bio, but your age or name can be unknown if you do not want people to know who you are. Mystery is really good for these kind of RP's

4) I like that fact that you have some knowledge of the X-men but sadly this is a DC comic guild and the X-men are Marvel.
Notice how the person begins by mentioning appearance very specifically. The character is severely underweight, but somehow the person considers that attractive. Despite being a teenaged human, her character somehow managed to not only befriend Xavier but also gain admission to the school despite having no powers at all. She also has a crush on a canon character, and the roleplayer probably intends on having her character date Bobby and fulfill the roleplayer's own fantasy rather than be realistic. She keeps focusing on appearance and unlikely circumstances. The name of her character is very unlikely and too much of a cutesy name. It also has nothing to do with the character herself; it just "sounds pretty." Please avoid all these mistakes.
Sadly this has happened, not in an RP but in the actual comics. There is a Human Character that is in fact good friends with Xavier and has been apart of his school. Her name was Moira Mactaggert I might have spelt her name wrong. This is something that could happen once or twice; but not all that common.

5) Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. You may not find and servely under weight person attractive, nether do I; but there are people that do. If the creator of that character is into that kinda thing then thats them.

That is all I have to say.

Are you guys talking about the Mary Sue 'test'? It was stated that if it is common in the situation, don't check the box, like saying 'Darkjay'. YEAH that is an odd name, but not for names of superheroes of vigilantes. The box would be unchecked....

And it was also stated that these were not bad things, and just because some of the boxes were checked doesn't mean your character is definitely a Mary Sue/Gary Stu.

sweatdrop It was explained before the whole 'test'.

They mean in general most of these changes weren't approved by the other mods altogether and the fact that most of them don't agree with the changes. All in all, it was done without consent.