"When we first started out as a server, we were as babes, young and innocent. As the server has grown, it has evolved. As it has evolved, sometimes we've made changes in policy that we felt moved the server into the direction of role play that we wanted it to go. Initially, when we made a policy change, we would "grandfather" in players who didn't quite meet the requirements if they had it before. After a while, we realized that this was counterproductive and left us with the same issues from the existing characters, and so about a year ago we stopped "grandfathering in" players who had gotten X (whatever x might be) before we had set a requirement of Y (whatever y might be) on it."