i think you shouldn't make a character until you have the time or are willing to take the time to fill out it's page descently and completely, it's cheating the rules, and a rather simple rule at that.

as you said it does take time to create a character page, but you should never do anything half way, it's in the rules you know it has to be in there but not explaining HOW they know the character is rubbish, it gives the reader no proof that the character even met at all, it then it has nothing to do with spirit at all it's just a regular old character, meaning it more than likely doesn't belong here. You can go to "roleplayGateway.com/net" to send in anyold OCs, but this is /Spirit/ source and you should show how they are involved in the spirit world.

It takes me mods so long to get things activated because of people doing things like this, they end up having to douple check and other things. Patience is a virtue remeber that. you can still write fanfics and make images of a character before it's activated and go back and add there icon letter when it gets activated. It's frustrating because i have seen people who barely have anytime to be on give a good character relation to spirit and tell in the history HOW they new the character how the history between their relation.

If you really don't have time to fill the whole thing out type it up in MS word or Notepad, save it and finish it in there, and then copy and past it into the character page text box.

It also frustrates most mods to see a character page that was rushed through or halfway done, and when people cheat aorund the rules, more than you think. the spirit relation rule isn't a hard one to follow, but follow it the right way. you wouldn't like it, if a Mod cheated around their rules just to Stop you guys from cheating around the rules set for us. it's the same thing. just do it right.

i'm not saying i haven't ever done this as some of my older characters are guilty of this but i have Sence stoped because i saw it was pointless and ment i was just rushing through my character pages just for the sake of people seeing the character. rushing through a characters page and cheating around the rules just tells me that the creator more than likely didn't care about the characters bio and only about the characters chance at getting faved/ getting a gift of it/ or becoming popular, which ar enot very good reason to even make a character at all.

you said that the mods are to strict, yes i used to to and in some ways they are but when it comes down to character pages, i don't think they are, you see the most half way done stuff some times, the rules just make people give more than 50% when making a character, and it keeps Spirit Source SPIRT Themed. it is spirit source, you should take the time to explain how your character in related to the spirit world in it's history or some where in it's Bio (I.E/ parents: (main character here or cameo character here), Sister: (main/cameo character here) History: ____ grew up on the outskirts of the lakota tribe), and not just Relation to Spirit: knew him/met him once/ is rain's best friend.

It's just (and i am sorry because all of this probably sounds harsh but it's driving me mad because i've /seen/ what people are truely able to do with a characters info to make is amazing) disapointing and sad.

I agree with GemmaWolf. I think it's fairest for a mod to go ahead and activate the suggested character, but then send the creator a PM asking him/her to update his/her character BEFORE it gets deactivated. I am somewhat speaking from experience, but I don't believe it's fair to deactivate a character because their is one minor problem in it's profile(i.e. a connection to Spirit that doesn't have much detail.) It takes a lot of work to create a character, and I think the mods understand that, they are just to strict. It's very stressful to wait for days to have a character activated, only to learn that they were rejected because of a lack of detail, or a minor problem, and then to have to edit the character and send them back in to wait even longer... I had this problem with my character, Sage. He didn't have much of a connection to Spirit, so I had to be creative, and I changed the history of his mate, so that she was actually once part of Spirit's herd, and Sage had to fight Spirit himself for rights to her. I think this problem can be sloved 2 ways: 1: the mods make some compromises and activate the character but give the creator a PM warning; 2: or the creator compromises (like I had to do) and get creative and give the current connection a little more life.
Hope this helps!

i think it would be ok if you could quickly type that to get your character activated, but then receive a pm saying that you need to update your character's page and add more detail. when you create a character, you fill in everything (which can take a long time) and then you send it off to be activated. there isnt anything like with fanfics, where you create it, edit it, then send it off once you've completed it. i think this is needed to stop rushed character profiles and minor connections.

that may be but in most cases these character profiles are rushed through, and do not connected with the Cimarron world at all, not with basic bio or the characters history.

Maybe people know that their character met *blank* but just forgot to put it in and/or they just didn't bother to.