Problems on the forums

[Anarky]

Originally Posted by Krang

While I agree that it is silly for people to put their own fan characters into places where they don't belong, I think saying the entire forums are in a "sorry state" because of one single thread is blowing things way out of proportion. Besides this one, how many other threads are there in the TMNT-related sections that are about fan characters? Besides the ones you quoted, how many other fan characters were mentioned in this thread? And for that matter, how many people in this thread played along with the fan characters mentioned as opposed to ignoring them? Consider these questions, and maybe you'll begin to see that while you have a valid concern, you're being way too melodramatic about it.

The sorry state doesn't just happen here, this thread was just the one that made me finally say something.

Look at it from my Point of View:

• General Discussion: Nothing. Practically dead because the core users have either left or just lost interest in it. A couple of nostalgic people still hang around, wondering what on earth happened to this place.
• RPG Section: A place where all the clowns get to live out their absurd fantasies of self-insertion. Sure, the forum is mostly dead because nobody feels like being the one TMNT among seventy fancharacters that all have Mary Sue traits.
• Fan Works: Fan works seem to mostly be "Draw April wearing this dress. It is my fetish." these days. It is not a place where you draw Leo vs. Shredder and everyone marvels at you for having drawn Shredder so nicely. Would Shredder be wearing a thong, then yes, it would be awesome. And if you don't have fetish-April, you have fanfictions that are harebrained to the point where you want to hurt the nearest living being.

The solution to this? A first idea would be to just tell the people that they're behaving like complete tools, that they're being so stupid, it hurts. Granted, the internet is a place where stupidity is apparently a sign of some weird degree of quality, but seriously... April as Velma? So just telling the people that they should maybe hold a bit back on inserting themselves into the TMNT everywhere and maybe should not pester us with their fetishes, would probably help this a lot.

Look, I love this place like the next guy, I've been here forever and I will probably never leave. Fact is, I love this place, whether I like it or not. And before I see this place being completely overrun by fancharacters and absurd sexual fantasies, I will at least try to fix it. And this is me starting.