I thought I'd add an opinion of what I think (even though I don't visit here much and I'll trust Dragadon's judgement).
The forum was basically designed for Oddworld content. But IMO the guidelines can allow some exceptions. I see these as being:
Images: for example a topic like Dragadon's Pics or Teal's Pics may contain both Oddworld and non-Oddworld drawings. IMO this is OK. Another expection would be a non-Oddworld creature which plays part of someone's Oddworld fic (i.e. Dragadon's dragon characters that live on Oddworld in her fan fics).
What I wouldn't like to see is:
- Topics solely dedicated to non-Oddworld
- Too many images of non "fantasy" type characters (i.e. if you drew an image of Tom Cruise for example, it cannot be related to Oddworld, whereas someone's imaginary creature can be a possible new species).
Fanfics: One of the things I noticed a while back was stuff that was non-Oddworld. This mainly seemed to be the "battle" type topics which I get the impression people are getting bored with. Fics should at least be of an Oddworld or sci-fi/fantasy nature.
I just thought I'd add what an Administrator thinks on this kind of thing.
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