Ok so-
The “how would you MOC so and so” topics
Don’t make them. Ever.
Maybe it’s outta place for me to say this but, lemme explain why you shouldn’t.
Originally- Chronicler made the How would you MOC chronicler topic. Super pretentious and stupid to do. Why? I ASSUME he was inspired to make the topic after seeing all of slime’s mocs made by other people. The only reason Slime has so many mocs of himself was by matter of circumstance.
Then MT made his own topic about moc’ing himself. It was purely made to make fun of Chronicler’s topic. So far it’s going great, lots of silly fun pics being posted. I like it alot for it’s originality.
THEN- people crossed the line with their own topics, people I won’t name. Guys.
Come on.
Like… This fad/trend topics catch on. IK. But please. Be original with your topics.
Hey, now. I felt left out, okay? For all the things I’ve done, I felt I needed some recognition. 
Sure, you do- but just str8 up asking people in a topic is kinda… Y’kno…
Hey, would it be a Trend topic to make a ‘moc topic’ similar to Sidorak’s or Raggedclaws’ moc topics?
As long as you put it in the creative content category, no. You’re fine.
If only I new about this… I normally don’t go clicking on the rules and guideline things since I normally just read other peoples topics… Now I’m sad 
I’m not surprised. No one ever does.
Quite honestly, I guarantee life would be beautiful all the time if people here actually read the rules to the stupid site they’re on.
At least the pinned stuff.
I mean, we pin it for a reason.
I did!
I do this, kinda. However, I check to see if someone else has done something before I do.
That, and I usually am way too hesitant to do anything against the rules anyway.
so uh. i didn’t quite understand; are Ask topics allowed?
Like, you starting up your own Q&A topic for yourself?
No. That’s not allowed.
Okay.
Are you calling the message boards stupid?
Goodness, that isn’t very nice.
Uh…what?
Apologies, that was meant to quote Nyran. I’ll edit 
So Honorable Admin @Scarilian, tell me again why
This topic is causing a lot of “appreciation” topics to appear, and thus is a trend topic
is happening? Okay, I can understand closing newer ones. But why close the old ones? It was never done in the past. The mods would just close the new topics, and the trend would die out.
I have to agree. We shouldn’t be closing older topics that came long before a newly established rule.
Besides, the Mod Appreciation topic didn’t start the garlic bread thing. The garlic Appreciation topic had an arbitrary origin.
Other staff members in the past have been very strict on closing trend topics, as such to be fair, I’ve decided to treat all trend topics the same. Even those that started the trend should still be viewed the same, especially when they were iffy to begin with. This prevents people complaining that they are being singled out or that their topic has a right to exist because it is slightly older than the others that exist.
So if a user creates a perfectly viable topic, and several users “copy” it, the original post will be shut down?
In this case their was no perfectly viable topic. The ‘Mod appreciation topic’ was a topic that served to ego boost and was itself a copy of a prior appreciation topic originally made by a staff member. Neither in this case were supposed to have been allowed, was just a situation where it was let slide because the second one was user created.
In the situation where a future trend topic started has any value in being left then it will be judged accordingly, but in this situation I am unsure why you and others are annoyed about an inactive duplicated trend topic being closed?