It's been advised, and accepted, that the voluntary part was the biggest issue of it.
On paper, it seems chill. "Yeah, sure, submit one if you want to," an Admin might say. The Admins don't care, it just adds extra flavor. And we're not adding it to judgements, we constantly say "No, it doesn't affect judgements."
But then, over time, over years, you'd see a few judgements pop up mentioning exact moments referenced in Summaries. And I know for a fact that it was pretty routine for the Admins to provide them to Judges. So, if summaries don't affect Invasions - like we've said they don't - why are they being provided to Judges? Why are moments from summaries, players mentioned in summaries, also mentioned in Judgements?
And if you see this, as a faction that opted not to voluntarily submit one - wouldn't you now feel pressured to submit one? You're representing your faction, after all. And your writers want to win. Anything for that edge. So now, when one voluntarily submits one, the other feels compelled to do the same. And when they both feel compelled to do it, it's now become an issue of "writing up a summary that compels your argument for victory better than the other." So now, the MFO's definitely feel it impacts Judgement, because they've been given every reason to believe it does based on the history of judgements provided.
There were alternatives, proposed and advised. Guidelines for the summaries to abide by, making them feel less PVP centric and more story based and fair. But, my fellow Head Admin drove home to the point and said in the discussion this week, "Either make them compulsory or banish them to the 9th circle of hell." And I very much agree, given everything we've seen and discussed.
People want to have their cake and eat it too. It's forever been my job here at Chaos to draw the line on how much cake is too much, and we've arrived at it on this subject. The subject of accepting Invasion Summaries, voluntarily or compulsory, will not be broached again - we have our final say.