User blog comment:LucidPigeons/Category Cleanup/@comment-26204029-20160308165003/@comment-2059440-20160324180136

admins shouldn't scold either, Balthus.. that is akin to telling a tantruming child only the parent is allowed to tantrum.. really none of us should be degrading ourselves to behavior best left in the chan-sites and other "troll" sites.. there are many places in the internet for doing that.

The weapons and items and power based categories actually violated our most sacred core rule : "no categories based on things that do not truly define a character as a villain, with gender being one exception".. that's why we banned deformity, race/nation and LGBT.. because being any of those things has nothing to do with a character being "evil".

short of specific powers that rely on "evil" to function (black magic, vampirism etc) or certain "evil" aligned weaponry (soul-draining swords etc) neither a weapon nor a power really defines a character as a villain.