Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-32685487-20180627235034/@comment-9782468-20180628045131

I'm not gonna pretend it doesn't irritate me that one of the people responsible for the existing toxicity in the VS debates is now saying they're too toxic to have around at all.

Moving past that, however, I'll weigh in.

I understand that a lot of people are toxic in that forum, and it's easy to just see the negatives. I'm reading those forums most days, and it's honestly exhausting sometimes. Yeah, it gets pretty stupid in there sometimes.

However, they're fun. It's fun to pit characters against each other and debate how their abilities would counter each other, especially with a series like Naruto where abilities can outweigh overall strength. It makes the debate dynamic and interesting.

I know this is supposed to be an encyclopedia and that these kind of debates are unnecessary. But I think banning discussions about a facet of the series is unnecessary too.

I know it's unfair to just say "Keep them up and we'll moderate them," especially since all of us mods have lives and the threads are a big place to cover. But the versus debates are an engaging part of the wiki and I'd hate to see them go because some people can't stand see that their character isn't as strong as they made them out to be (for example, the original intent of this thread which was wondering why there was "Minato wank" or "Itachi hate.").

Like, yeah. There's always gonna be the unreasonable ones who can't be reasonable despite a majority against them, and will resort to calling it "hate" or "wank." But I don't think it's worth closing an entire topic over it.

So I'm in the minority here, but I'm against closing.