" Wearing something else will get you at the very least inquisitive thoughts from people who think, "there's a perfectly good symbol alread - why do we need a different one?", if they don't go the whole hog and ask entirely."

And surely this is roleplay? How is it a bad thing? I can tell you why Cheska doesn't wear the might symbol. Ask her IC one day and I'll explain. Surely this is another way of building up a charecter, whether you're a conformist, or whether your chosen group has a different identification. If you do, what is it? Why chose it? Isn't this the sort of thing you are actually after? Another things to build a charecter on rather than stats?

"Are you defending me or attacking me here?"
Neither. i'm stating why I disagree, This my opinion and viewpoint, I'm not waging war here!
Did I critise your ability in any way? No. I was trying to explain why people got riled. You really don't seem to understand it, so I was trying to express it a bit more strongly. Until you can at least see what we mean (not saying that you have to agree with it), you're jsut going to take every suggest as a personal attack and another attemt at persecution. You made you were going to act like that from the outset. people have for the most part been trying to explain what they feel is wrong, I haven't seen any flaming or "that's just plain wrong and you are an idiot" comments. Just people trying to explain their side. Which us what happens when you air an opinion in a public place.

Have you had your charecters trampled on by someone else's plot or charecter making them invalid? Or do you just consider them invalid because someone has said "Look, when you say that, you're going against the campaign that's been set out/ invalidating everying person x has been saying about themselves."

And again, I severly doubt it is every idea you've ever had. I really do.