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I understand this is old, but I'd still like to chime in for a brief moment.

In the defense of those who practiced what the majority of you consider powerplaying, there weren't necessarily any official regulations set in stone to prevent that. Most traditional clans maintain a certain hierarchy, with the more appealing positions like Leader and Deputy receiving more freedom to act and give orders than the lesser ranks. In a typical RP situation, there would be nothing wrong with that. The issue with FR Warrior Cats is the overall lust for power and prestige. They figure that if they aren't in a position of power or high honors, then their characters are insignificant. What they fail to realize is one of the most basic aspects of RP: Never expect to always be the Main character. If everyone were a Leader or self-proclaimed Legend, there wouldn't be much of a Warrior Cat RP to work with. Just a bunch of angry attention whores trying to one-up each other. I hate to put it that way, but it's basically true.

With the whole Legend and Supernatural Cat thing, the issue with that is no real work is actually put in to achieve that kind of power. It's just granted, which is basically godmodding. Others in the community argue that it's also not natural for Warrior Cat RP. However I find that statement pretty hypocritical. Humans (or Twolegs) weren't a natural part of Warrior Cat RP either. They're a thing in the book series, and the Warriors do acknowledge their existence, but at the same time, they don't wage full fledged civil wars against one another like they have in FR. The Warrior Cats could have chose to ignore the Twolegs, but they didn't. They could have chose to ignore Wolves too for that matter, but rather, they incorporated Wolf RP into Warrior Cat RP. So, I can see why the Legends found it unfair that their group was excluded when another nonessential one wasn't in the past.

The issue that really plagued the community was a lack of balance and consistency with the rules and expectations. You can't really blame someone when they're so lost by a lack of proper guidance that they can barely even tell their left from their right. The problem doesn't necessarily lie with one individual but rather, the community as a whole. If the community doesn't take the proper actions, then you can expect chaos like that which occurred in FR to continue on a constant basis.

~ "Iris"