User blog comment:Avery FireFlame/A Possible Change to the Featureds/@comment-3350823-20130729012005

I don't think we should stop any Featured. Featured is good for several reasons, for one it can help advertise your story. But more it's an achievement many users would like to have. Having been a new user, having a featured is really a sense of acomplisment and something to aspire too. Not to mention being an active part of the community is a simple as participating in Featureds. And I think users still want to have Featureds.

It's more a lack of participation. True we do have less numbers, but I think it's not really that. When I don't vote for something to be featured, it's because I either am not familiar with the source matieral in cases where you should [FC, FS, or FU] or I don't think I feel I need to vote for that, not I oppose it though.

A lot of the reasons I don't vote on FC is because I don't the character. That maybe because they're not from a story I'm reading, which either means I'm reading stories that can't nominate things there, or they have previously and want to give other people a shot.

The reason I didn't nominate a character this month is because I came up with the theme, and I felt that would seem a bias in my favor. And a lot of users have good characters, but they do them often. I think that it's; there's people really trying in featured and those who aren't.

I think featureds go all the way back to the core; reading and giving feedback on stories. That's something else that people are saying isn't being done enough. With featureds, I think there are those who don't neccesarily try and those who are using a lot of their time and going out of their way to.

There isn't a reason this wiki should be as dead as people are saying it is. The quality of fanfictions hasn't go down and the Total Drama franchise isn't dead really. I think feedback is giving back. You give feedback and people should want to check out your stuff. It doesn't neccesarily work like that, but giving back is the way. If you aren't giving feedback and or reading other stories, or even writing stories, what exactly are you doing?

I'm not saying that anyone in particular. And I'll admit I'm not commenting and up on a lot of new stories as I should be. But I'm trying to caught up, and mixing that in with writing my own fanfic and my life.

I hate to sound like a broken record, but people are saying often it's our lack of strength in our community. I've seen people say they don't care to comment on stories. And yet they often advertise their own stories. Myself, I feel like if you aren't giving feedback to anyone, you shouldn't get any.

As for the Featured scandal thing that happened, all I can is Featured are suppose to be examples of good stories, characters, users, images and quotes. Not how popular the user themself is or how many fake users they can make. I don't know if it was based on popularity or if fake users were invovled, but that's what it looks like and it doesn't look. And if you are giving feedback [which Featured kind of is] than let it be constructive not hateful.