User blog comment:Jade-the-Tiger/*Admins* Sharing Our Ideas/@comment-10233964-20180123081724/@comment-30559258-20180123152717

Hi!

We'll be sure to take a gander at it! With the new categorization process, we need all the help and ideas we can get!

One thing that should be noted is that blogs are objectively a better medium for announcements, whether personal or wiki-wide. With forums, they are more so meant to be discussions, and sometimes the original announcement/message can be lost in focus with the amount of responses it gets. While we always allow and encourage user thoughts and opinions, which is still possible with blogs, we mainly wish to get the word out, and here the original announcement retains its focus. But otherwise, yes, the forums could use some organizing too!

Fortunately, the admins have already addressed this topic privately, and although we haven't offially chosen how to moderate OC creation and parent-choice quite yet, we essentially agree with you. One thing we hope to convey is that we don't wish to constrict OC-creation in the fandom, but given that this is a specific medium for OC-creation, we reserve the right to moderate that. Of course, we can guarantee that whatever canon accepts will still be allowed, but crossovers and non-monsters are sort of a gray area, not to mention other OC schools.

Personally, I think that's a great idea, Rika! As someone who has won this type of award on a separate wiki, I can say that the basic bragging rights that come with winning are awesome...but having something a bit more visible would be great incentive to win, which in turn would motivate users to turn their OCs into the best versions of themselves. Of course, we will need to be able to confirm that we have committed artists who will go through with this every month without unreasonable delay, but we appreciate your idea and volunteered art! I'll bring this cool idea up with the other admins, but I can't promise an immediate consensus as we are still backed up with all the other basic wiki concerns (categories, skeleton pages, stolen OCs, oh my...), but do not worry, we're making such progress!

Another interesting idea! I think the canons work because they are mascots of the series, and this fanon stems from that. But we are discussing what to put on the front page, so I can perhaps suggest this to the other admins while we are currently on that sort of topic :-)

Thanks for your ideas and thoughts, Rika, we hope you can give us more should you think of some!