Subject: To tag onto this further...
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Posted on: 2015-12-07 12:34:00 UTC

We have added to the list of Legengedaries, very- and I stress that intensifier- very slowy since I joined. In 2007. Since then, the ones I can remember being added to the list, and being present for to agree, yeah, those are legendary? Cupcakes and LBT: LxC. That's it. Out of that tiny list there. So yes, there is* a reason to treat them as a limited resource, and that is because they are.

To qualify, Des, in your initial response that we shouldn't treat "Legendary" badfic any different, I think the fact that we already qualify them as Legendary means we treat them as different right off the bat.

Just because everyone here right now isn't interested in claiming this particular Legendary doesn't automatically mean Iximaz should have an all-clear to have on her kill-list a good portion of the list we have.

A very small fraction of the Boarders around now were here back when I first joined; would it still be okay and fair to newer boarders who weren't around back then if, say, to borrow names from the past, Anjilly had taken up a bunch of the Legendaries? Or Rilwen? Or Laburnum? Or Araeph?

And as for your aside to hS regarding the what-if about limited edition collectibles: just because something is 'legal' doesn't make it right or fair, which is something I believe we as a community also try to aim for.

My objection isn't 'making missions out of Legendaries for the sake of it'. That is already an understood matter at large, and we have done a pretty good job of hammering it into people that we don't go after fics that are Awful Just Because They Are So Awful We Need to Show Everyone How Much Awful We Can Tolerate Compared To You. It is 'we only have so many Legendaries, and we still have people join every month, and some of them even stick around for years. It isn't fair to those new people and people who haven't even shown up yet that Iximaz has claimed so many Legendaries and done missions for them, leaving others without that opportunity.'

-July

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