Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-1018594-20150721025435/@comment-1251315-20150722160001

Curse of Hatred wrote: I don't think the databooks should be banned completely as they can provide some basic information about characters, but they definitely shouldn't be the be-all-and-end-all of debates, since stats aren't everything. There have countless times were sports teams are statistically  weaker but still manage to pull off upset victories. My point is to maybe keep the databooks to give a rough outline of a character before the actual debating starts. That's all fine and well, but there are users on here who ruin it for everyone else by shoving the databook down everyone else's throats. If even a minor amount of the databook is allowed to enter a debate, problems start almost immediately. 95% of the fandom who contributes here probably don't even care for the statistics provided by the databook: why should they be insulted, mocked, called names or belittled because they don't have the databook?

Plus, only one of the databooks provided statistical information anyway, so it's not a big loss to be honest if it's statistical information is not used in debates.