User blog:Cryptomania/AT Fever

Me again. Just stopped by to talk about the strange and perilous AT fever that has attached itself to most of the community. I'm not saying that it's bad for you guys to put up your ideas for consideration, but don't you think the sheer idea-after-idea thing is getting a bit too much?

Don't get me wrong, there are some really good alternate Heresies/Timelines around here (DAT, DH to name a few), but sometimes it just boils down to what the quintessence of an AT is. In Alternate Heresies, it's the Arch-Traitor that is the centerpiece of the whole thing. In Alternate Timelines, its some chronological occurance that changes the outcome of the 41st Millenium, which usually serves as the main timeframe of most of the canon fluff.

Secondly, its times like these where great ideas are sometimes (not always) overshadowed by some other idea, leading to the whole congested Wiki Activity feed that still kind of annoys me. (some peoples ideas aren't heard and stuff like that) Can there be some sort of rule that allows only one or two AT/ET's at a time? If you let only one or two of those at a time, either one can be fully appreciated by the community, don't you think? There should also be a page that says which of the Timelines are still operational and are being worked on. Nobody likes dead, unfinished Timelines.

All in all, I bid all you hopeful Timeline authors the best; originality is extremely hard to come by these days.

Cheers. :)