Board Thread:Administrative Requests/@comment-4010415-20180225013443/@comment-26018514-20180226004745

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: ...

>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 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 and Tai, 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.

>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 excluding 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.

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.

1. I don't see how that's a problem though, I mean, will it really matter to anyone if Qrow, Raven, and Torchwick are in the trailers subsection? that's literally one section away for Torchwick, and Raven and Qrow are at least relevant from the first season, and this would keep RWBY near the top, while limiting subsections to about 20(if RWBY makes Volume 20, and if we don't add movie/game subsections), best of all though: We won't need to touch any of the older volumes aside from maybe moving inactive characters back into them.

2. Agreed, Current affiliation is absolutely atrocious... and personally I see the worst part: We MUST constantly update it, hell it could make the entire order irrelevant in half a volume with a few key deaths or massive death event.

3. Is that what was meant by Alphabetical? an entire subdivided section per letter? seems like it would be bad to have 26 of those off the bat.

4. I still think an amalgam of MC's/Currently focused characters(ordered alphabetically with no letter headers) ->Season first appeared(ordered alphabetically) would make for a better sorting method than straight Alphabetical.