Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5035900-20151230095025

Since the start here, I've intended that anyone can work on a battle, even if someone else wants to do the same... and to put it lightly, that's been heavily distorted over all of this time.

It's evolved into "I called dibs first!" and "Aww darn, someone already claimed it!" and "Call the admin! Someone's making their own version without my permission!" And all of that... is just plain wrong.

Someone editing a person's battle (ie changing the outcome or straight up removing it) is a no-no, no question about it, but just simply starting their own take is not and should not be a problem at all.

I'd elaborate, but Chesknight put it best exactly one year ago:

"I've said it before that I find it unfair that after someone works on a fight, no one else can do it either. I mean sure if things work out so that no one ever tries to write a Silver VS Mewtwo, then yeah I'll claim it as my own. But I'm just saying that if some other contributor shows up and asks "can I write my own version of this battle?", we should let them.

''So what I suggest is that, for example, Ness VS SIlver is SS2Link's battle and we'll put it in that category. But if someone else comes along and wants to write their own version of that fight too, they should be allowed to either add their own category or a new one called "Fights by Multiple People"."''

So I want to make it crystal clear for the record for future reference:

'''There are absolutely NO restrictions regarding others working on their own take of a battle someone else has their category on. Everyone is free to make their own version of all battles here with the exception of those that have come true after the episode came out.''' 