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It seems that I've been seeing a LOT of "adoptables" sheets in the BaltoSource image galleries recently...most of them consisting of a lineart colored multiple times in several (often not-so-good) coat patterns.

Let me mention this note from the adoption rules:



Thankfully, I haven't seen much of the first problem as far as "brightly colored" goes (aka I haven't seen random sparkledogs for adoption) but I have seen ton of the second one and I really am starting to think that some of them WERE just randomly made up "5 minutes ago". There is one member in particular (no names mentioned, of course) who I've seen posting several adoption sheets with a name assigned to each that I honestly think (nothing confirmed, just a strong suspicion) is naming them mainly just to get a bit around that rule...mainly because I HIGHLY doubt that he/she had THAT many old characters that he/she is trying to get rid of.

There's also another member I saw who recently posted an image of characters that technically weren't for adoption, but rather they were "future female characters" who ALL were "open for maets!" (More on that matter would be covered in this rant: customize-my-character-i-m-too-lazy-t34936.html (Lol, I JUST noticed the URL for that topic being different than its title...and very amusing, too! XD Who did that and how?)


For gracious' sake, guys, how many times have we gone OVER and OVER that BaltoSource does NOT need more underdeveloped, random OCs running around...which is all that these posts are creating!

We actually have an ADOPTABLES BOARD here on the forums! adoption-f31.html

And it's under the GENERAL section so you don't even need to worry about them being Source-related! Complete with a nice little rules page to keep them...well, un-noobish, for lack of a better term.

So PLEASE just USE IT and STOP SPAMMING THE BALTO IMAGE GALLERIES WITH THESE POINTLESS SHEETS!

Stop SPREADING more POINTLESS characters around this site. I know that I and others are SICK and TIRED of seeing what was supposed to be a FAN SITE turned into a "CHARACTER" MILL. This is NOT a site like Chicken Smoothie!

SO STOP.


[/annoyed character creator and Balto fan.]

I agree with you Nattikay. But it's not just on Balto Source. The Lion King Source is going through it too. I'm all for character creation, but why bother using a character that someone else designed? Lately, TLKS has been having 'Guess the Parents Adoptables'. I'm all for the guessing games. They're fun and challenging, but adopting the cub if you get it right? I mean, what are the odds that adopted character is going to get used? 50/50 or 90/10? Either way, it seems useless and pointless.

Yeah, I can tell what you mean there. Seriously. If they feel like making random designs they can feel free to adopt them out on deviantArt. They need to leave Baltosource out of it. :/

I vote Natti to open a spay and neuter clinic on this site!

But I totally agree with this rant. I get the impression that people aren't truly here for Balto.

This issue annoys me so much. The forums finally cleared out all of their random adoptables, but now that actual site is being over-run with them. Most of these people aren't even away about the no random adoptable puppies rule because I don't think it is on the main site anywhere since there's an adoptable section on the forums for a reason; to keep fan art/image galleries clean. And if someone points this rule out to them, they come up with lame excuse like "this is (insert badly made fan-character here)'s brothers and sisters from ALL the litters plus his cousins and aunts and uncles and..." Yeah, you get my point.

*sigh*

I second Mighty's suggestion!

I'm bumping this topic because I can't help but notice nearly every day a new set of adoptables are sent.

The staff really needs to crack down on these kinds of things. All these adoptables are not helping the useless character problem.

The 'No adoptables' that is, 'Adoptables that will have NO TIES to any of the Sources that the movies are dedicated to' should go here.

The adoptables that WILL have ties, I think, they should be allowed. But the other... no way.

The Sources are named after the movies for a reason.

So, a rule should be made soon and put into practice and motion ASAP.