Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28655620-20161117184919/@comment-995426-20180309095946

If the discussion looks bad, it's not necessarily because it needed my help. As long as the discussion solicits random user input over such a terminally polarizing topic, the result is going to be very predictably acrimonious, with people ending up using a lot of time and energys to say what amounts to very little. And that's because this is not a topic of rational discussion&mdash;it's a topic that hinges on whether the commenter likes or dislikes the character. And when a character is as strongly liked by some and strongly disliked by others as this one, then a thread like this functions primarily as either an echo chamber (if everyone happens to agree) or as flame bait (if anyone disagrees), whether or not it was actually intended as either.

If you want to gauge fan opinion, you might be better served setting up some kind of poll. And if you want to declare an unsolicited opinion of your own without an existing topic asking for it, there are better ways to do it, such as in writing as a statement on your user page or in a personal blog entry. But with this thread, you solicit debate over what amounts to a fan preference, to which there really can be no detached rational argument for or against.