@Red-Supernova  
In the Simpsons’s fan community, there are basically two types of fans - those that love the show from Seasons 1 throgh 8 , and those that love the show from Season 13 onward. In that period between 8-13, there was a rather large sea change of the head of staff (Groenig became less hands on as he worked on Futurama, and they put in people that had experience in TV but no knowledge of Simspons). That created a dramatic shift of the tone of the show, from a quirky family animated sitcom to (as seen by the older fans) the wacky adventures of Homer and Bart, with the occasionally good episode, in part to compete with Family Guy and other similar shows.
 
This basically came out in the episode “Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie”, where at one point the characters are talking to the show producers in the comic shop. The reaction of the I&S show producers to the comments of the fans was way too close to the complaints that the existing fan base had, which many took as “we don’t care about the history of the show, we’re making this the way we want”. That moment alienated a lot of fans, and hence created the split between the old and new fans.

@Background Pony #BDFF  
You can agree or disagree with his statement, but it was much better English than most complaints about the show have been.

@Red-Supernova I don’t know if it was a CYA move or not but I did see them outright mention as much about a decade ago in a tv guide interview with Al…something. Producer guy. They get so much mail both negative and positive that they can’t tell which are coming from Comic Book Guys and which are coming from actual critics with ideas about how to fix the damn thing.  
So they just give all the bags of mail to a pair of secretaries whose only connection to the show is they’re good at looking up shit on the wikis for their replies.

@Background Pony #C689  
My response: “Speak English if you want people to understand you and actually take you seriously.”

@Masem  

 
Now I love The Simpsons and will support them till the very end but is it true that the Simpsons’ staff really ignores negative criticism?

@Niggoslav_Krawczyk  
hes head probably pop off

@Niggoslav_Krawczyk  
Lmao. I would be lying if I say that those comics are the other reason why he rage quitted.

@Ponynstuff320 (Toon-n-crossover I’d hate to think how much harder he’d ragequit if he read that

@Background Pony #C689  
I do kind of agree with the Celestia and Luna thing. It is a little annoying how many times they are downplayed. I mean, to me, it was never explicit whether or not they were all powerful. They are implied to be very powerful, but we only hear most times when they have shown it. Otherwise, there have only been a handful of examples, which mostly include them raising the celestial bodies or Luna going into dreams. In fact, if you think about it, they have been shown to be anything but all powerful since the beginning. There are many parts of the show that tell us that Celestia couldn’t do anything about different threats without the Elements of Harmony. She isn’t shown doing anything productive most of the time, either. This has been a thing ever since the beginning, really. Hell, we still don’t even know if they are really immortal or not, for sure.
 
As for the uniqueness….Well, Celestia still hardly has much of a character that isn’t just supreme leader and motherly teacher (and smiling and looking pretty). That has always been another thing I wish the show addressed more. Hopefully it will happen. As for Luna, I think that she has gotten more development little by little as the show went on. Nothing too much. But, nothing too little, in my opinion, either. She is still pretty unique to me. I do wish we could see the ‘Nightmare Night’ Luna again, though.
 
As for everything else….I honestly don’t know what he’s talking about. How exactly does having two different kinds of alicorns undermine anything Twilight has accomplished? She may not be on the level of Celestia or Luna, but that doesn’t mean anything. She is still Twilight Sparkle. The one who seems to be doing a lot of good without having to change too drastically, aside from physiology. Isn’t that better than her being acknowledged for anymore than she already is? The thematic weight of her ascension is actually really good the way it is. Because, it gets weightier as the show goes on. Instead of her ascending with no development afterwards. If the show was still taken in Faust’s direction, Twilight would’ve succeeded Celestia at the end. That would’ve been perfectly fine. (even though that probably wasn’t going to happen because of Hasbro) But, for what it is, I don’t know. Twilight becoming an alicorn hasn’t done much good or bad. However, like I said, she is still developing. And, I’m perfectly fine with that.
 
As for the focus and coherency…I mean, the show has broken focus. But, I feel that the show never had a completely focused manner of story or world development in the first place. They’ve always been making stuff up as they went along, and have been broad enough with them to allow you to make your own conclusions or for them to be made later. Isn’t that a big part of the fun of the little world that they built? And, please, this show has had many incoherent parts from the beginning as well. I could make a list. But, if you’re looking for coherency in a magical land of talking, colorful ponies and tons of other weird creatures and rules, then I don’t know what to tell ya. Part of what always impressed me was how much they could be coherent and creative with such concepts. But, you are bound to see weird and stupid stuff if you look deep. The characters have surprisingly stayed pretty consistent, all things considered. There are some small deviations here and there. But, most of the time, they are situational deviations that are debatably so and don’t completely change the core of any character. I definitely do feel that Spike is the largest example of an inconsistent character that I could think of. But, that’s about it. My point is that, the creators of the show have always done what they want. Hell, Season 2 - super incredible, amazing season that Tommy and many bronies gush over so much - has the least focus out of any season. But, is it bad? Far from it. Unless I’m misinterpreting what he means, I really don’t agree with or understand these views.

@Background Pony #F14F  
Eh, he’s not exactly wrong.
 
I actually kinda agree with him on this one, though it’s not really a deal breaker.

@Background Pony #C689  
In a nutshell: MUH LORE

@PonyPon  
Or the comics.

@Background Pony #C689  
I wonder if he’s read The Two Sisters Journal.

From Tommy Oliver’s tumblr:
 
“The depreciation of uniqueness and power of Celestia and Luna, something that was clearly not the plan from the beginning, Cadence’s introduction, the canonization of there being two types of Alicorns undermining the thematic weight of Twilights ascension, and a general breakdown of worldbuilding cohesion.  
None of these things are massive issues, but when combined together you have a product come season 5 that, while still good, feels far less focused than it was in the beginning.”

@Colon Powell  
Why are you bummed out?

@pwingbrony  
I don’t personally have a negative viewpoint of the fandom itself. I’m not even really sure that sure the stigma attached to us is even our fault. Yeah the mountains of spaghetti didn’t help, but it was probably inevitable.
 
I also wasn’t really interested in starting any flame wars, I’m simply looking at the bigger picture. Personally I find it hilarious when people flip their shit because some video game company posts a picture of Pinkie Pie or something, but there is a small part of me that’s, well, also saddened by this.
 
Thing is, I think the stigma does affect us as a whole, whether we wish to acknowledge it or not. The story of the artist leaving, severing all ties, and sometimes even going so far as to delete all his old stuff is a story that’s all too common with us. Are we really so terrible? Are we truly that much of a burden?
 
But whatever, I was really bummed out when I made that post, still kinda bummed out now, so I’ll just make my exit. To paraphrase the late Bernstein, I’ll find a more appropriate venue for this discussion.

@Princess Luna  
I understand you didn’t like what I did. You could say you banished me to the sun…

@Princess Luna  

 
Then it probably should be removed from other images as well. Checked yesterday, and there were at least 5 images with that tag.

@ArkyNoid  
It should be noted we have few admins or moderators, and fewer still that currently have time to take care of such things.

@ArkyNoid  
Or people adding ‘nightmare fuel’ to stock images of toys. It’s a bit childish to say the least. I always remove these tags when I see them.

@Princess Luna
 
I don’t mean to drift far off topic but there are still several tags with seemingly negative opinions floating about. One I can remember at the moment is “badly drawn”. Just saying, not to be overbearing or anything.

@Mad Black  
In a comment, “good riddance” is borderline. The problem is that it was in tags, and tags are not for opinions, especially not negative ones.

@Goremise  

Yeah, if there’s any analyst that specializes in this sort of thing, I’d be happy to give them a shot.
 
And “Daring Don’t” seemed to infuriate a lot of people over its supposed re-writing of canon (which, IMHO, was more of a matter of bending canon almost, but not quite, to the breaking point); I can understand being upset over characters being flanderized or otherwise represented poorly, but if someone gets that livid over the canon status of something that played a role in one episode previously, they may not be watching the right show.
 
@Mad Black  
It shows a needlessly antagonistic, and in all likelihood hateful, attitude towards the person in question. I suppose one could question whether it’s severe enough to merit banning, but without knowing more about the incident I’d be reluctant to debate it.

@Mad Black  
“Be excellent to each other”
 
Even if Tommy himself has not extended the same courtesy to some of his viewerbase, we should not abandon this principle, ever. It really is the only rule that is universally applicable.

@Princess Luna  
Probably a stupid question. But is “good riddance” some kind of slur I’m not aware of, that it is reason enough to ban someone?