Board Thread:Administrative Requests/@comment-4010415-20180225013443/@comment-25936766-20180225223933

Going back to the real topic, it's more precise to say the layout isn't terrible, it's problematic. In fact, all 4 ideas are problematic in different ways.

>By first appearance, By Volume: Some characters appear first in small ways before getting a proper introduction (Qrow pre-V3, Roman in the Y-Trailer, Scarlet and Sage before the Vytal Tournament).

Then there's Salem.

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>By original affiliation: Problem is that as the story goes on, some affiliations become nothing but footnotes about the past which do not reflect the current reality at all. Case in point, STRQ: If you saw Summer, Tai, Raven and Qrow under that same section, you'd know they are a team..

....Except Summer is dead, Raven left them for the Branwen Tribe more than a decade ago, and Tai and Qrow don't really work together that much now, if at all. In fact, Tai probably doesn't like him as much as one would imagine, depending on how you read his look in V3.

So yeah, they were all members of Team STRQ, but that was long before the story begins, and they're not a team at all anymore. Listing them all under a "Team STRQ" section ends up giving a false impression.

And then there's Vernal and the Branwen Tribe that Raven cares more about than "her Team". Not listing Raven in that section implies that she's not affiliated with the Branwen Tribe, which is just plain false.

>By current affiliation: Problem being that, naturally, it leaves separate people who do have something to do with each other. Ren and his parents, Pyrrha and NJR, Raven and Qrow, Ozpin and Glynda, Weiss and the Schnees, and so on.

Putting Jaune, Nora and Ren in one section but not Pyrrha implies they aren't affiliated with her, despite Pyrrha having been their teammate for months.

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>Alphabetically: This one is the least problematic but it does bring some questions about the layout. Mostly because of the charmugs. 1 section per letter, even exclusing letters that haven't been used to start names yet like Z, means a lot of sections, each one with multiple charmugs.

The end result means the Characters page would be, at the very least, incredibly tall. Quite a lot of scrolling would need to be done to even reach the comment section.

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So personally, I said I don't mind the first 2 ideas: Alphabetically and By 1st Appearance, and I still stand by that, but looking at it, Alphabetically is the best option because, again, it's the least problematic.

We order the characters by the starting letter of their names. No one can complain about where X character is on the page because, again, it's ordered alphabetically. Nothing more, nothing less. Importance, 1st appearance, affiliation, none of that matters, none of that is taken into account.

I know Fubuki said that "some morons would bitch if Team RWBY is not at the top", but.....here's the thing: We can just NOT give a fuck about those morons. We cannot and should not restrict our options just because some visitors might be stupid and ignore the fact that the page would be ordered Alphabetically.