Board Thread:Voting/@comment-25406788-20150816070200/@comment-3560733-20150816203025

The basis behind the rule against famous models has nothing to do with the in character aspect of it but in fact the out of character aspect. In my experience across multiple sites, when you allow famous character models, you eventually reach the point where 2 or more people are extreme fans of said character and both want to use them. While yes, you could use the first come first serve concept for who gets to use it, you don't fix the root of the problem. When you have 2 people extremely wanting something and another gets it, you usually will have that other person ending up with some level of indignation toward the first person. This indignation can often lead to actual dislike and when you end up with people fighting/disliking each other over frivolous things, then the community itself WILL begin to crumble. That being said, that is entirely the reason the famous model rule exists. Not because it makes sense in character, but because inevitably, people will fight over it and problems will occur and it is much easy to just make a blanket statement that will avoid all potential problems rather than allow it all. That way, you stop all the problems before they could occur.