Thread:ZMTS037S Zomspine/@comment-5434817-20180507085441/@comment-35465316-20180507214836

I think now it'd be a good idea to treat all the comics we have now similar to how the SCP Foundation handles "archived" articles, known to them as -ARC pages, with slight variation. Basically, if an article is slated for pruning due to low ratings, it can be allowed to stay and ignore all quality control rules if more popular articles rely on them for some or all of their existence, or if the majority of staff insist on letting it stay, but under a different category of organization. However, they are sectioned off, marked with explicit indicators that they are "archived," and are typically forbidden from being rewritten or otherwise altered. A disclaimer stating while that they do not conform to or size up against the quality standards, they are not the example would also be a good decision.

The only change I want to make from that protocol is that instead of segregating archived pages, they should simply be marked as such on Seasons 1 and 2.

Issue 36 in particular I do not want scrubbed for now. While it is a painful reminder of a disastrous event from the old era I have referenced several times before, it would still be possible to recreate it given the leads we have.

As for "A New Season," I started to think of a plot where poorly-drawn versions of the characters engage in badly-written activites (think Issue 17, Buttered Volleyball, and all of PeaShooter's comics), before they get incinerated? vaporized? from off-screen, followed by one of those "TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES" banners, preferably with a humorous icon (like someone trying to handle a broken TV), before a real character steps in, apologizes for the 24 times they took a major drop in quality (basically, what we have now minus the comics made by you and Bloomerang), and explains the circumstances of the reboot in a tact and in-character manner.

I think that's a little too meta and setting itself up for an awkward transcript, but I felt like it'd be worth bringing up anyways.