Deviant art, macros and the like might not translate over as well, but surely that certain flavour of inane idle chit-chat definitely can. We've always tolerated a certain degree of deviation from the topic in Naruto threads, more so than any other thread on this forum (some of you have to cop to that fact) and we'll continue to tolerate & be open to some of it well into any future thread(s).
In some respects we, the staff have only ourselves to blame since we've taken such an overtly lax approach to past Naruto threads that it's become what's become. But then, all the complaints, the reports, the anger of others who might not necessarily be those few thread regs who are completely fine with the way things are, come en masse on our end of things, and we have to at least try and reconcile some of those issues otherwise why the fuck are we even here? What can I say to those poeple, "Yeh, well… too bad that's the way Aldrich like his Naruto threads, you don't like it? Go suck a dick!"
I know most of you wouldn't care to see it from our perspective, why would you, not your problem, right. But really & honestly, what would you have us do?
I'm reading & getting the impression that any new thread would be a strictly straight-laced, souless affair. But that's not what I envision nor expect it to be, at all. All we want is to see some of the more problematic aspects of those past threads reigned in, like Mr. All Sunday said maybe, just maybe you could show a litte constraint, try'n steer clear of posting shit that'd only attract our attention.
Tell me, would that be such a preposterous notion? Would that be such a grand concession to make, that it'd deem any furture Naruto topic automatically neutered.
Well, if it is then… maybe it can't be helped afterall?