Thread:ADour/@comment-26991858-20151008135844/@comment-16461120-20151008232836

The characters' creators decided that alignments became unnecessary and in this community they primarily served as the cause of meaningless arguments over semantics. They weren't removed on a whim, in fact they weren't removed at all, the discussion was exhaustive and those with official alignments can still have them listed in the Notes section of their articles.

As for how I personally learn about new heroes and villains, that's easy, I read comics. New comics, old comics, physical comics, digital comics, doesn't matter, I just read whatever I feel like, and when I'm unfamiliar with a character, I look them up, I follow the links in their articles to associated materials to gather a greater perspective of how they relate to what I already know, and that allows me to form my own opinion on the complex nature of any given individual's motives.