User blog comment:Gnostic/Fanon vs. Alternate Universe/@comment-72835-20110324194717/@comment-260745-20110326213245

And that's the kind of attitude that turns most fanon wikis into balkanized slums of fanfiction and allows all the worst vices of fanfiction (god mode, Mary Sue, etc.) to fester, and I suspect that's why so many of them have such difficulty retaining their users. How many Shepards, Sarens, and Citadels can one have before those names cease to have value? How long can one continue writing the saga of their Shepard knowing that his (or her) rescue of the Citadel is a feat that has already been accomplished by dozens of other Shepards?