No more "depending on your view" phrases please

Hello. I'm Snow, but some of you also know me as Wynd. I feel like there's an issue that has been going on besides the on-going vandalism from rogue users (who happen to be former members of this wiki), and it really needs to be addressed.

I noticed that whenever I looked up for the number of instances that whenever you look up for the word "depending on your view", there's about a WHOPPING 198 instances of this being used.

So before you put up your torches and pitchforks, allow me to explain. A few users such as SuperStreetKombat and TheSun42 pointed out in the past that not only is this term overused to death (not just in the old QP wikis, but even every single reception wiki that exist uses it including this one) but it is also biased and pointless. Which I agree with them. The reason for being pointless is that if Reception Wikis are meant to be written in a subjective point-of-view, then of course its natural that not everybody is gonna agree with these pointers being classified as a "good quality" or "bad quality" on a page. Just think of it as if it was almost like you're writing a Your Milage May Vary (aka, YMMV for short) page on TV Tropes. You don't see any of the opinion-based tropes listed there as having any usage of "depending on your view" in them. Even if something is too subjective for a person's taste, adding this term doesn't even help add on to anything but filler. That's why it's YMMV for a reason.

Then again, I used to think that the YMMV as a replacement for these "depending on your view" would work, but looking back, it doesn't feel any better. Since my experience of implementing that in Imagination Land Wiki just ended up having it being overused as well.

And on the topic with overused phrases, Reception Wikis had a history of overusing certain phrases. Not just the aforementioned "depending on your view" phrase, but also, on every season starter and ender episodes, they also use the phrase "which started/ended season n on a good/bad/high sour note" where they can be really annoying and repetitive overtime. I don't really have a problem on repetition when they're done right, but with the same pointers being written in the same fashion or manner, they just feel uncreative and seem as if they're just your average cookie-cutter jokes that get churned out to death until people stop laughing at them. People criticized the Reception Wikis for these issues I mentioned. I could go on about these overused terms, but that might be another day in another blog post.

So if anybody can help me get rid of this phrase faster, that would be much appreciated. It reduces stress and workload from me having to do everything with the cleanup. In addition, lessening these overused terms by paraphrasing/rewriting it differently, but still maintaining the same context can make it feel less annoying and more interesting. As differently written sentences make them feel more creative and fun rather than tiresome and annoying.

TL;DR: "Depending on your view" is a biased, annoying, and overused phrase, so I'm asking all of you guys to help me get rid of them, since I can't do this alone.

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