Thread:ThatScrewyDuck/@comment-27960787-20200115165835/@comment-39032584-20200116030427

Hi there. Sorry, I saw this a few hours ago, but I didn't have time to respond since I've been busy for most of the day. Honestly, this isn't really news to me. It's pretty clear you felt like you were giving yourself a purpose of sorts by doing those EPs. Hopefully now though, you can see that it's ultimately just a hobby that doesn't, by any means, determine your worth or value. Even here, now that I've been given the opportunity to propose all these characters that I'm confident meet all the criteria so they can be officially approved, it's really fun to use as a way of interacting with other people who are interested in the different components that make a character qualify as "pure evil", at least as defined here, as well as make a small contribution to a wiki I find interesting. But that's really all it is, and the only thing that's actually important about it is getting characters properly sorted into it, as well as the "rejected evil" category if they come close enough to be considered, but fail to meet all the criteria, all for the sake of reducing edit-warring and continuous arguing. Other than that, it's just a something to interact with other people over.

In short though, it's easy to understand why you felt that way on TV Tropes, especially since it's something that required a lot of analyzing, and therefore, feels like it can gain you respectability. However, in the big scheme of things, the number of characters you get approved really doesn't matter; as long as you're making an honest effort to help sort characters that properly fit the category here or over there (with the same principle applying to the Pure Good category on the Heroes Wiki, which I'm also contributing to), your contributions are just as appreciated and/or helpful as anyone else's. As long as you recognize that being an honest contributer is all that really matters and that it's just a fun hobby otherwise, then I think you're okay. Otherwise, it can just become a desperate and unhealthy way to get others' approval at the expense of getting characters properly sorted where they should be based on the criteria they've laid out.