I just checked that out, and honestly, it seems like there's a pretty sizeable group of people who feel the ban on SweetFx is misguided. Most of them are also the most frequent posters in this thread as well. It's not like this is an isolated thing where just one person thinks SweetFx should be allowed.
It has been discussed before, and when its been discussed there was a group, one which represents a large portion of the content that makes up this thread, who felt SweetFx has a welcome place in the context of Bullshots.
Large group? I'd say that is stretching it a mile and a half.
I'd also like to point out that I've been a frequent visitor to the High-Res thread where we took all of our experiences in putting together these rules, we aren't just grabbing these from thin air. The High Res thread devolved into one thing that annoyed the hell out of me: SweetFX Masturbation. People started using SweetFX on
everything, think I even saw someone using it in Trine, what the fuck? I've seen about 1200% more bad, annoying SweetFX shot than I've seen with any other form of injector. People added that shit before even playing the base game sometimes.
Then when every other poster was using SweetFX, it slowly turned into a "OMG share ur settings" type of deal. I think we had a week where it was nothing but SweetFX and setting sharing posts - That was also the week where I slowly stopped posting.
For every 1-2 posters who know how to "master" ( Use it in moderation / Have an eye for it ) SweetFX, there's 98 waiting to post their over-saturated ugly shit. I know a lot of people agree with that notion as I've talked to quite a few of them or they voiced their opinion.
And in comparison to ENB, an injector that actually changes a lot more in the game than colours, as it adds actual graphical features and 98% of people are using presets, stuff made by other people that usually gained some traction. Its complexity also means people rarely start making their own. So I've seen extremely few "bad" ENBs, plenty of mediocre compositions but that isn't ENB based.
So when we were making a new thread for bullshots, of course we weren't going to allow the single worst injector that is so easy to use and was the bane of the other thread for a long time, because 1-2 knows how to use it. You open the floodgates for a lot of rubbish.
That's how the rules are made; based on majority, not minority.
I'm not going to just say "OKAY" because 5 people want to use SweetFX or don't mind it.