If only you knew how many times I have butted heads with the mods. I been doing it since back before Rei was even a mod and before her name was even Rei.
This is true xd
Or before you became my personal hoe :|
*put your leash back on*
Let's go now U_U
Lmao! xd
Not to sound like a jerk or someone who thinks they could do their job better, but honestly what is done? People say the mods are busy but yet I don't see them anywhere except character creation and custom jutsu submission.
That is a real hassle.
If life is really rough where it comes down to declining stuff with explaination create a staff of Graders. They will only have the power to edit posts in the CJ thread, and they will be the ones to judge AND give explaintion towards declined CJs. Or, resign because obvisouly you can't handle the job.
:| However, none of that needs to be if you simply give more explaintion once declining jutsus. Threads like this won't be made, people know the requirements of what it takes to make a jutsu, and I am pretty sure it will in the long run make their jobs easier when judging.
Akira, you make a pretty good point. I actually feel bad for not giving an explanation to every jutsu that is declined (I try to give an explanation if I can, though), but sometimes, just looking at the amount of unchecked custom jutsus is overwhelming and some of us are not willing to leave an explanation. If we do not, I'm sorry, but we're only human. It's easy to point fingers, and even I myself wondered (before I was an RP mod) why certain jutsus were declined without explanation. It's simply a matter of being put in that situation and how you would handle it differently than you believe you would when not in that situation (much like the way people criticize authority figures and saying they could do the job better, but when they are actually in the same situation, they struggle). You are right, however, that it is fair to give reasons for declining CJs, but some declined Custom Jutsu are just a given ~_~'
1) We don't need to give a reason as why we decline a jutsu and no we're not going to change that. why? As without any doubt a lot of people are going to start to argue and yes that will happen. I'm not saying that everyone will do it, however there will be people and that's not a baseless assumption. There have been loads of people who complained about reasons as why their bio's got declined or why their move shouldn't work. So why would it be any different for custom jutsu's?
It's up to the mod whether he wants to give a reason or not.
2) It varies from mod to mod. What one mod finds OP, another finds acceptable. For instance I had once a jutsu declined by Goro a long time ago who found it extremely OP, while Rei said it was acceptable because it was easy to dodge. That's just the way people are, you can't change that.
3) These days around 80% of the custom jutsu's get declined, but that's normal because the amount of custom jutsu's keep rising and so does the amount of canon jutsu's. It's inevitable.
4) There are several reasons as why jutsu's get declined:
- Similar techniques exist, both canon and custom. Seriously I lost count of how many people submitted the chakra blasts from samurai, even though it's a canon jutsu so their wasting their own customs => this all means instantly declined, do not resubmit, whether it's E or S rank.
- Not following the template. Wrong chakra info, no Japanese names etc. a while back someone tried to use his own template and suggested we used that one. Not only was it an inconvenient his jutsu's got all declined because he didn't follow the template => these get declined, no matter what the jutsu does.
- Bad grammar. If we can't understand your jutsu, we're not going to approve it. These get declined.
- If you're banned, all your jutsu's are declined by default, no matter what they do.
- If you pass the 5 jutsu limit, they will all be declined, no matter what they do.
- Ridiculous jutsu's that don't make any sense. From the person who made it might seem logical as he or she knows what the jutsu is supposed to do and how it looks, but that doesn't mean everyone will. If a mod finds it ridiculous then he can decline it and depending on what it is he can decline, do not resubmit it. After all it's the opponent who needs to defend against the jutsu and doesn't needs to understand it.
If your jutsu makes no bloody sense whatsoever then it can be declined, do not resubmit. A lot of people think, when they use moves from other manga's, that the things that are logical there just apply here too, which is rarely the case, thus you get ridiculous jutsu's.
- OP jutsu's. Some people just don't put restrictions or barely any on them and then are surprised that they don't get approved. Also if a jutsu is OP, no amount of restrictions is going to save it.
5) You also need to realize that a lot of the most OP customs got approved years ago. The situation back then and now are completely different. A lot of these jutsu's wouldn't even get approved if they would be submitted now. They were just allowed to keep them for old times sake and because once approved, unless a very good reason, we don't void them. But it is possible, we can void jutsu's. Don't think because a jutsu is approved once we can never void it again. It's not something we will do often and on a whim, but it has happened before. Most of the people who have those OP jutsu's don't even use them. For instance Kirabi and Alucard had jutsu's voided because they were OP on such a level it was not acceptable anymore.
If you're going to start saying "they have OP customs and we don't" then you're just being childish as then you clearly don't realize the evolution our RP system has gone through.
Wallie no Jutsu strikes again :|
But, yeah, what Cali said. I'm also pretty tired of people complaining that "they have OP jutsu and we don't". Lol. You guys honestly have no idea how easy you have it with the special bios and whatnot. Back in 08, as a noob, you were practically nothing in the RP. You had no OP jutsu, no custom jutsu because you needed more posts to even submit a CJ, and main competition was people like Bisha, Hells, Zanji, Madara, Elias, Akira, ect. (all who had OP jutsu, the likes of which you could not imagine). That was the purpose of the massive CJ recheck, which most of you who are complaining were not here for. It was the first time that a decent standard was set for restricting members from making OP jutsu (and A LOT of jutsus were declined). It can't be helped. There will always be flaws, but I can assure you that the people who complain about not being able to create OP jutsu either lack creativity or lack the knowledge of the proper way to submit and present their Custom Jutsus.
You can, for example, submit a jutsu which you might consider OP enough for you to contest with other "OP jutsu", per say, and if I were to check it, I would approve it as long as it was reasonable, it had decent restrictions, and it's not stupid. Usually, for me, there is a basis of "How easily can this jutsu be defeated/avoided" when checking customs, and if there is absolutely no way it can be defeated, then it's probably OP (and trust me, I know a lot of ways that different jutsus can be defeated, be it by canon jutsu or even other members' custom jutsus). All of that simply comes with familiarity with the site and the members of the RP (Including their fighting styles). Every mod has their preference, as Caliburn said. Some may find one jutsu to be OP, while others do not. It's a matter of presentation and soundness in reason.
