Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-24947676-20170421075527

The reason I'm suggesting we prohibit the use of these terms is rather simplistic and should be pretty obvious - but I'm willing to bet that half the people who use these terms don't even know why they were ever used, or why they continue to use them.

A long time ago, all the RPs followed one continuity. But when the community got bigger, we quickly realized that as we grow this continuity would become unmanageable if we only allowed that continuity - so these terms were invented. "Canon" meant the RP was part of the continuity that existed from the start, and "Non-Canon" was used for everything else.

But those days are long gone - both the original continuity and the rebooted continuity have long since died out, so RPs using the "Canon" term died out, though "Non-Canon" and "Fanon" continued to be used by long-time users out of force of habit, and the new users copied the long-timers because the long-timers know more than them.

But really, these terms should all stop being used because we don't need them anymore. To ensure that these terms never be used again, we should prohibit the use of them for all eternity. Or at least until we need them again because y'all done fucked up and made "if Ankoku was the president of the student council" canon like the fools y'all are.

Also, if you vote oppose or neutral, please explain why, since I don't see any reason to oppose.

 