I have personally given my approval of the Asteria page, to include the latest version where there's a couple hundred Iroma mentioned on it, and also the parts about there being some leftover Lorath in Asteria. The page is what's canon. Since all of these species have already been on Asura III or in its immediate area, historically, I don't think Asteria is making any overzealous claims or stealing anything, as Raz suggested. In fact, it's excellent that now people who want to play Lorath or Iroma have an additional option for factions.
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Regarding the topic at hand, issues in the Setting Submissions forum (a.k.a. NTSE), I was recently reading a thread on RPG-D in which the vast majority of respondents to a topic about public reviews of characters and submissions agreed that allowing non-staffers to comment on threads was a recipe for extreme drama. This appears to be at least somewhat true in our case, although it's notable only a handful of the same people repeatedly show up in my reports panel. I've been thinking that maybe the player right about being able to comment on new stuff being proposed to the setting may not be helping us as intended, and that maybe new setting submissions should be reviewed by staff alone or even privately. I'd like to know your thoughts on this.
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Regarding the topic at hand, issues in the Setting Submissions forum (a.k.a. NTSE), I was recently reading a thread on RPG-D in which the vast majority of respondents to a topic about public reviews of characters and submissions agreed that allowing non-staffers to comment on threads was a recipe for extreme drama. This appears to be at least somewhat true in our case, although it's notable only a handful of the same people repeatedly show up in my reports panel. I've been thinking that maybe the player right about being able to comment on new stuff being proposed to the setting may not be helping us as intended, and that maybe new setting submissions should be reviewed by staff alone or even privately. I'd like to know your thoughts on this.