http://forum.shinobilegends.com/index.php/topic,8593.0.html
Cool story bruh, but the only ruling I got from that Topic was
You're all awful. Would have stayed longer and fought Madara if I knew this laughing stock of an issue would take place #TeamTrev
Just letting the subject of the claims of the Eight Tails stay in a thread that's been continually open for the discussion of that. But I can understand why the forum has slowed down a bit and is hesitant to talk on an issue of the Tailed Beasts. Mainly it's in fear that another 16 page-long topic will commence.
Or out of concern for another horse to be beaten dead for no results? Fear is a pretty intense choice of words there.
And an individual cannot claim a "standard" issue weapon. It's like, standard isssue. Maybe claim to be its creator, but claim to be the only one with it? Kind of defeats the purpose unless it used to be standard issue.
The term of beating a dead horse implies that the issue has been resolved and any other conversation about it, whether it be constructive or not, is moot.
But the fact that this is still an issue, means that the horse is alive and bucking. People just choose to pretend that it's not wrecking the farm, until it starts to dig it's hooves into their front porch and tear up their homes. By that time their ignorance comes full circle. Or perhaps the ignorance goes even further, to the point of them being content with what is to come. Simply meaning they don't care even if their house is torn down.
And I do restate the fact that the community is scared. They're scared that another stalemate in an issue will be met, and that nothing will get done or change. This is exactly what happened with the Tailed Beast Amend/Abolish thread. All that input and effort into getting it organized and getting a large amount of the participating forum community to contribute to it went to moot with an unforeseen stalemate. People are mostly calm when they know what the results of either side of a vote will bring, because it's something that can be foreseen and planned upon in advance. But in the event of a draw that occurred when both sides were so confident in winning, people stand around and have no idea what to do. Nobody lost and nobody won. People became burned out, and would rather go their separate ways than to burn not each other, but themselves out again.
It makes some people realize that we're just as bad as the politicians in our respective governing bodies. But I always thought this was pretty obvious anyways.
The worst part about dealing with issues though, is when one side is so adamant about their position and yet they won't provide any reasoning or reply to the other. On-lookers who don't even have the guts to admit and flat-out say "I don't know" can be just as bad.
Separation is what has the potential to destroy communities. But discussion and compromise is what can mend it back together. Arguing is not bad. It's how you go about it.