@Eurasian: It's a different topic so it gets its own topic.

I know that a fourth naruto forum would be overkill, but I think of it as an appropriate point of start for a discussion. It is a clearly isolated and separated entity that everyone who is bored of the endless comparisons can avoid without much hassle. As I said before, the sticky would have been my wish but stickies have some problems right now iirc.

People want to discuss it so a rule isn't a solution and I acknowledge these comparisons as valid criticism, I just think they should be collected somewhere seperate, not inline the chapter discussions. Personally, I think the chapter discussions should be rather story-centric. What happened, what will that change for the future, which new questions arise and which questions were concluded. The well known comparisons are imho more general observations that just happen to manifest themself in certain chapters (if they wouldn't, they wouldn't occur).

Over the last few weeks I think these debates on principles took overhand. It's an alarm signal when you can find a "back to topic" in every fourth or fifth posting. That's why I started this principle debate. Leave it as it is, or seperate them. We, the members of this forum, need to make that decision (the more the better). Sticking with hotsuma's Naruto Ball Z topic is fine from my point of view, maybe even making it sticky if possible - or keeping it alive in other ways. Applying an (un)written, member evolved, forum rule to discuss these things here and that things there.

Once a critical mass has been (made) aware of and realized the problem, the solution isn't far away anymore.