I was trying to avoid bringing this to the forums but it seems to be the only way to get this settled properly, since I can't talk about it site-wise. Recently Tomi has gone on another one of his 'Hiraishin Spring Cleaning' sessions that he goes on every couple of years. Honestly, putting aside any personal feelings that I have on the matter, one universally accepted rule on SL is how to handle Canon Jutsu. This is why we have The Claimed List, so that we can avoid having a single person monopolize any given technique the best that we can, and that goes for Hiraishin. We all know the 'rule' about Hiraishin that Tomi had created but it was never agreed upon, not the same way that we had to talk about Edo Tensei or formed a Bijuu Council. When it comes to canon abilities on the Claimed List, it doesn't matter what any one individual wants to do or if they want to keep it to themselves, the whole purpose is to avoid that sort of thing.
In a heated message received from Tomi, it sounds as though he's attacking my claim to Hiraishin personally for some multitude of reasons but I've nothing to prove. For years Tomi had been gone ICly, where any sort of self imposed rules wouldn't have mattered, regardless of how I learned the ability. Which, was through several different ways, from learning it from different users to eventually creating my own. That's the beautiful thing about how things work on the site, once you learn an ability you can do as you please with it, unless it is a person's custom jutsu. And this is not one of those situations. There was nothing that stopped me from creating my own scroll, one that I used to RP for literal years, and just because it is an issue to Tomi now doesn't make any of it illegitimate.
The only problem I see with my Hiraishin is that it stops Tomi from holding it over my head like some sort of threat, or just erasing me from the list without an hassle. I don't understand why we can't continue going on our ways like we have for years. It is only a problem because it can't be monopolized the way that someone wants and that's silly. All of this is silly but when it is messing with people's RP, I've no choice but to say something.
I just want to get this talk out of the way and get this settled. Hopefully you see this Tomi and reply soon, so this can be over and done with.