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1) OTT means a character that is being characterized or simplified. In story terms, they are the villains and heroes, the ones we love to love or hate. A consistently OTT character is presented as a distraction to the other players. Of course, not all OTT players stay that way, and often an OTT player will go UTR for awhile if the editors want to bring them back to the main storyline as a more well-rounded character. Contrasting OTT edits in the same player (OTTN v. OTTP) generally mean a more complex edit over the course of the show.
4) Usually lacking in strategy, or strategy not expressed with much internal conflict - but they can have lots and lots of conflict with other people; no remorse if N and no "evil" strategizing if P - only focusing on loyalty or saving one's own skin

1) MOR means something between UTR, CP, and OTT. They say and do enough to avoid UTR, but they're not emphasized caricatures or developed personalities. This is a holding episode for characters who could be CP, but the story didn't particularly involve them, or for normally UTR characters who couldn't escape inclusion in the story. As such, winners are often portrayed as MOR at some point in the story. However, a consistently MOR edit is not a good thing because these characters are more just kind of there.
3) If the player did something that you feel makes them better that UTR, but not enough to qualify for CP, then you rate MOR.
4) MOR can be used to describe characters who were mostly UTR with a fair amount of CP.

TheLurkerSpeaks wrote:

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The definition was mistranscribed - the word should not be "characterized", but "caricaturized". There is a big difference. Most players who receive any development at all are "characterized". Relatively few are "caricaturized".

Crystal was not OTT. She even provided the intended editorial summation of GC, which was her primary function this episode and meant to be agreed with. Her searching Sugar's bag deserves negative tone, but she's not presented as the villain to root against. Again, we're meant to agree with her perspective on GC. He's the simplified deserving boot.

I don't find unduli's approach convincing because ratings aren't a piecemeal function. We're looking at the episode in its entirety, and the whole is not the sum of the parts necessarily. Individual OTT parts (even if they are truly OTT, which I don't think can apply to an isolated incident) don't add up to an OTT total if the parts don't reinforce the other. OTT represents one dimensional editing so if the supposed OTT parts don't reinforce the same dimension, then the total can not be OTT.

Crystal had three roles with some bearing this episode. (1) She was a contributor to the down mood around camp. This was a minor role, indicated only by Matty's confessional and not further explored. (2) She was a strategist trying to deal with the hidden immunity idol. This is a basic game playing function used to put doubt about Sugar surviving. Thus, we get Crystal's opening confessional and the scene with her searching Sugar's bag and reacting to Sugar at TC. All of this had more to do with Sugar's edit than Crystal's. (3) Finally, she was the fed up competitor irritated at GC's decision to quit. In providing the condemnation of GC, she is voicing the feelings of the editors in their seasonal attempt to discourage future Survivors from following his example. Again, this edit isn't about her, but GC.

Basically, none of Crystal's edit is about her, but about Sugar and GC. She's just being used by the editors to further the stories of others - that's MOR, not OTT, even if there was only one use. Multiple uses, at least one of which we're meant to agree with, pretty well rules out OTTN as a rating regardless.