My goal is never to be popular, as some of my characters have proved.
My goals are always to roleplay well, achieve something new and have fun. If any of those are broken, I usually abandon a character and/or delete them. Experimental chars almost always fit into the above from the beginning, and so aren't anything I plan to own up to. Chars that just generally fail and degenerate I tend to forget I even played soon after. I usually own up to my evils because even though they 'failed', it wasn't really my fault. It was just because I'm shit at evil roleplay.
Yhorian