User blog comment:Wyvern 0m3g4/What the hell is happening on SoF?/@comment-3387274-20111126201813

Wyvern, if your rationality was genuinely slipping there, then I can only recomend throwing it away, you clearly think better without it. Congratulations on summing up a problem that until now was less apparent than Absalom.

I agree absolutely with everything you said, and I even know why this happens: On some subconcious level, we feel that the character represents us, and nobody wants to be a weakling. The first thought that comes into anybodies head when they decide to join this wiki is that they want to be powerful, so they go to make a powerful character, and forget about cannon in the process.

When I joined this wiki, I nearly fell victim to that, but I tend to read around first, and so by the time I felt ready to create, most of my ideas seemed to me to rebel against good taste and common courtesy, so I ditched them, and to this day that is pretty much the only thing I have ever thought I could have done differently.

The problem now is that people who read around see the more recent new users who have overpowered characters, and do the same. And since all of us who've started small have seen our characters become more powerful as a result, we cannot explain properly that power is not the point of this wiki.

The sollutions:

Fresh start: We make weaker characters, and try and spread the word that power is nought but a bauble

and Zero tolerance to those who break cannon or overload the rules. Make sure they read the rules first, and if they break them, one warning before instant page delete. Get rid of the problem pages, and it might put things back the way they were.