Thread:BastionMann/@comment-26016674-20171126144939/@comment-26016674-20171202130451

Flugmented wrote: To be honest, I object over most of these claims.

Matthew is just a normal guy with unlimited ideas to share. Yes, he's stealing, but if you're going to layer that over several other harmless things, then you're getting the wrong idea.

Most people would have the exact same ideas if the fanon wiki was popular. If you run a fanon wiki yet it has rules that are against unoriginality/overdoing, then you're too subjective and you don't deserve to run it.

But hey, I don't run for staff anymore so my opinion means nothing. I appreciate your opinion Flugmented. Yes, Matthew is a guy with many great ideas, even the staff agrees he does have great potential in his ideas.

The Dragonov SVU incident might be just an accident, I must admit it I have overreacted about it as it's a real life weapon, and no one really has ownership over the weapon aside from the original designers.

Now for rules on originality, yes, I'm aware of potentially having similar ideas as seen from the Pimp My Gun wiki. The issue of unoriginally/overdoing initially stems from suggestions on how Matthew could improve his weapon, and giving him feedback on what to improve. With Bastion and occasionally other members giving many feedback comments, major ones being it being overpowered or using too many real life examples/using real life pictures. There were too many new suggestions, yet little feedback taken that we stopped giving feedback.

There isn't much enforcement about being original on the fandom wiki, nor a rule stating otherwise, Leafy allows users to be able to remix weapons (slightly altering/giving another taste) with the original owner's permission. The disciplinary measures were a last resort and the reason why it hasn't been done. And us discussing about it was kinda a place to get advice from others on possible actions.

The whole issue was wanting Matthew to try extending his artistic capablities by limiting the use of real life weapons and trying to design original weapons without it being based on it. I know that if can be hard to make an original weapon, however challenging yourself can lead to great designs. For example, yes he made more original designs, however the main problems of using too many real life weapons is still present, such as having 5-6 weapons of the same weapon base.