Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-28172979-20170805192916/@comment-26928286-20170809051804

Alissa the Wise Wolf wrote: Cybrile wrote: Alissa the Wise Wolf wrote: Comments like these are only convincing me that Adoption should just not be a thing at all.

nono !!! i feel that adopting characters is a good thing, especially for people who have a hard time coming up with designs! but it also sometimes leads to characters being stolen (which would happen without adoptables anyways but what are you gonna do). i just feel that if you find a character, and you find a source to it which is abandoned, you shouldn't just take that character! for all you know they could still be in use but on another account or even outside of a website. This is also why I don't think multi-fandom OCs should be a thing either. It makes it more likely for your content to be stolen without your knowing and far more difficult to manage a character on so many sites. Users should be more than willing to create as many characters as possible, and keep them wiki exclusive to keep things more manageable.

This is a pretty bad idea. Creators should decide for themselves how they would like to manage their characters. I'd say that trying to dictate how others manage their OCs on other sites is too overly controlling.

If Pistach's thread passes, most of the problems you want to solve would be solved in a way that causes far less problems. Your other suggestion would basically give people who don't want their OCs stolen a penalty, in which their OC doesn't show on Random page and it generally gets less attention, etc. Pistach's would just give everyone a sense of security.

I'd like to give a reminder that this wiki is a democracy. Rules are usually made based on what the users want. Personally, I feel that they'd rather just not allow people to adopt their OCs without permission at all than have to put it in a user subpage if they don't want it stolen.

In fact, I'm changing to support, although I won't be returning very abandoned OCs I foolishly borrowed unless the creator asks me to (in which I will definitely give up any ownership).