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APPLICATIONS - NOTES

There's been a recent trend of providing Youtube links as information resources - we'd like to point out that we do not accept them and will not be viewing them. Our reasons are as follows:

time constraints;

youtube clips, like any particular instantiations of canon material [please don't provide us links to download the whole manga either; we've had it happen. A lot.] are a rather unreliable source. Why? Because, unless you are arguing that we should watch the entire show, they generally provide input on the character outside of his or her context.

Suppose you're apping girl A, and provide us a youtube clip. We watch it, and in the clip she seems to be very bratty and/or selfish, so of course what we expect to see in your app is a char that's bratty and selfish. Except, you know, maybe she was really only bratty and selfish in that particular instance because of canon considerations that we are not aware of - or maybe it's... dunno, genetic for everyone in her world to be particularly irritable, and she's actually mild and mellow compared to everyone else. Do we... see the problem here? If all we see are particulars, we lose track of the big picture.

What we expect from written material (a synopsis or characterization) is an asbtract that will provide us information on the overall, dominant and minor attributes of a characters. We understand that it can sometimes happen that written information is entirely less trustworthy; but in a majority of cases, it doesn't.

Further on applications and resources here

Likewise, while we definitely appreciate the attempt to culturalize us, please work around the idea that the majority of your moderators are foremost proficient in English. Your applications are in English, our forms are in English, this game is mostly played in English. Providing us resource material in Japanese, German, or any other language (those two, we've encountered the most often) will... probably not be a good idea, no.

Thank you for your time ~ !