Luckily, I have only ever had this issue once, and it was very mild.
I was a member of a forum, and many of the regular posters became rather close-knit, myself included. We used to talk to one another individually through MSN until the service shut down; we moved on to having large group chats on Skype when that became the popular messenger of choice. We became close enough that every once in a while we would agree to a large voice chat, where we'd talk about this-and-that. Most of us were in the age range of 16-18.
So I had no qualms about roleplaying with that guy, who I will call "Z", because I considered him one of my friends. He wasn't the closest friend I had in that sizeable group, but everyone else appeared to be chill with him, and I was the only one who had never had a thread with him. People spoke about their plots with his character all the time so I was excited to get in on it.
I had a new character, a demon in the infernal army, whose profile was recently accepted. We agreed to thread with his only character at the time, another demon in the army of a higher rank.
I don't recall the thread even getting to the second page (which was normal for everyone on the forum). It didn't take long for his character to take a strong dislike to mine, and while I'm always roaring and ready to go for a fight thread, Z's character easily put mine in an inescapable position that I did not agree to by the time we'd posted two or three times each. There was no way for my character to escape death realistically, and I refuse to write ridiculous, unrealistic things, so I simply never responded and I let that thread die.
The experience was so baffling (I had never had someone do that to me in years) that I completely lost interest in that character and let him fall into inactivity. I learned later that Z was quite the strange guy (he was older than most of us by one or two years) and he hurt a lot of us individually.
Now that I'm older, I'm convinced Z did not like the fact that I had a character of the same species in the same occupation who could potentially be stronger than his.
I was a member of a forum, and many of the regular posters became rather close-knit, myself included. We used to talk to one another individually through MSN until the service shut down; we moved on to having large group chats on Skype when that became the popular messenger of choice. We became close enough that every once in a while we would agree to a large voice chat, where we'd talk about this-and-that. Most of us were in the age range of 16-18.
So I had no qualms about roleplaying with that guy, who I will call "Z", because I considered him one of my friends. He wasn't the closest friend I had in that sizeable group, but everyone else appeared to be chill with him, and I was the only one who had never had a thread with him. People spoke about their plots with his character all the time so I was excited to get in on it.
I had a new character, a demon in the infernal army, whose profile was recently accepted. We agreed to thread with his only character at the time, another demon in the army of a higher rank.
I don't recall the thread even getting to the second page (which was normal for everyone on the forum). It didn't take long for his character to take a strong dislike to mine, and while I'm always roaring and ready to go for a fight thread, Z's character easily put mine in an inescapable position that I did not agree to by the time we'd posted two or three times each. There was no way for my character to escape death realistically, and I refuse to write ridiculous, unrealistic things, so I simply never responded and I let that thread die.
The experience was so baffling (I had never had someone do that to me in years) that I completely lost interest in that character and let him fall into inactivity. I learned later that Z was quite the strange guy (he was older than most of us by one or two years) and he hurt a lot of us individually.
Now that I'm older, I'm convinced Z did not like the fact that I had a character of the same species in the same occupation who could potentially be stronger than his.
Okay, so I'm involved with a chat rp on facebook that's based off of the web-cartoon RWBY. There are currently 10 or 11 people involved with the rp. There was a guy on there, I'm just going to call him A and his character F. We have established rules for this rp. No godmodding, no op, keep OOC stuff in the OOC chat, warn others before bringing a new character in, be nice, and so on. Mostly common sense stuff that anyone who has been rping for any amount of time will completely agree with. So this guy A joined the rp maybe 2 or so weeks ago. His SECOND night he spams the main rp chat with some 30 screen shots of his character's interactions with another character, which I will call S. A's character F and the other character S were being rather cute together and we were all talking about the fact that they were such a cute couple. And A wanted another person to tell him whether or not they were being cute. So, that was 1 strike against him.
Now F... F was like the poster child for a poorly made character. F had BPD, I think that's what it's called, and had three different personalities in one body. One was this cute little cat girl, one was an assassin, and one was like the embodiment of her pain or something. Make no mistake, I've got nothing against characters who are mentally ill. In fact, some of the most fun characters I've interacted with had some form of mental illness. But, anyone whose ever made one with a mental illness will agree that there is a right way and a wrong way to do it. Well F was the perfect example of the WRONG way to do it. So, that's another issue that existed.
I'm going to take a moment to say that there's a lot of IC drama in this rp. Well, we were in the middle of one of these episodes of drama between two of my characters and another person's character and A's character F approaches our characters. One of my characters politely turned and told F that they were a bit busy for a social call. F left. Then F came BACK while everything was still going on. M, who the character I wasn't controlling in all of this, told F to go away, but F wouldn't leave. It led to a fight. Afterwords A complained about how it wasn't F's fault that things happened the way they did because F just wanted to apologize for upsetting M, even though we TRIED to tell A that stuff was going down.
A also made comments in the OOC chat that really should not have been made. He later tried to claim he didn't make those comments, even though I found and made a screen shot of his comments for the head admin to see.
Those things... Those were bad enough, but what we couldn't ignore was A's attempt to hijack the rp despite being told that his side-plot HAD to stay short. His character F was apparently originally a slave of some kind and she wanted to stop her former master from enslaving others. Okay, cool side plot. BUT when she found her 'master', the ENTIRE rp became our characters trying to stop him. This guy could apparently corrode and warp metal, could take what basically amounts to shotgun shells to the back WHILE being stabbed, and was a jerk on top of that. THEN he decided that F HAD to fight against the guy alone. Now, the way A's villain was written broke the no OP rule, so he got booted for it. But, had he not been booted, he would have been the only person active in what promised to be a nasty, time consuming fight.
So yeah, that was my most recent experience with 'THAT GUY'.
Now F... F was like the poster child for a poorly made character. F had BPD, I think that's what it's called, and had three different personalities in one body. One was this cute little cat girl, one was an assassin, and one was like the embodiment of her pain or something. Make no mistake, I've got nothing against characters who are mentally ill. In fact, some of the most fun characters I've interacted with had some form of mental illness. But, anyone whose ever made one with a mental illness will agree that there is a right way and a wrong way to do it. Well F was the perfect example of the WRONG way to do it. So, that's another issue that existed.
I'm going to take a moment to say that there's a lot of IC drama in this rp. Well, we were in the middle of one of these episodes of drama between two of my characters and another person's character and A's character F approaches our characters. One of my characters politely turned and told F that they were a bit busy for a social call. F left. Then F came BACK while everything was still going on. M, who the character I wasn't controlling in all of this, told F to go away, but F wouldn't leave. It led to a fight. Afterwords A complained about how it wasn't F's fault that things happened the way they did because F just wanted to apologize for upsetting M, even though we TRIED to tell A that stuff was going down.
A also made comments in the OOC chat that really should not have been made. He later tried to claim he didn't make those comments, even though I found and made a screen shot of his comments for the head admin to see.
Those things... Those were bad enough, but what we couldn't ignore was A's attempt to hijack the rp despite being told that his side-plot HAD to stay short. His character F was apparently originally a slave of some kind and she wanted to stop her former master from enslaving others. Okay, cool side plot. BUT when she found her 'master', the ENTIRE rp became our characters trying to stop him. This guy could apparently corrode and warp metal, could take what basically amounts to shotgun shells to the back WHILE being stabbed, and was a jerk on top of that. THEN he decided that F HAD to fight against the guy alone. Now, the way A's villain was written broke the no OP rule, so he got booted for it. But, had he not been booted, he would have been the only person active in what promised to be a nasty, time consuming fight.
So yeah, that was my most recent experience with 'THAT GUY'.
I once met 'that guy'. I met him several times. And I'm pretty sure this 'guy' was talked about previously, by Draken. Not going to say who it is, mostly because I can't for the life of me remember his name.
So, I had seen this guy god-modding with other people, and I thought that, since I had a character (and still use him to this day, the first character I ever made) that was OP as hell. He has basically the power to do anything, but I don't really use that for combat, mostly just for like summoning objects to use. He also has Deadpools brand of immortality, meaning he dies, then comes back like 10 minutes later.
So anyways, I was thinking since I had this practically godlike character, I'd be able to take him down a notch, by beating him at his own game. We start up an rp, and after a while I lethim kill me, just to demonstrate the coming-back-to-life ability. Then he starts complaining, saying I can't do that. We eventually get back to the rp, and I eventually go Trunks on him, slicing him up into little pieces, and blowing him up. He said that it didn't count, because his character couldn't die. I said screw it and abandoned it.
I then thought: Two can play at that game. So I created a character that was literally the ancient Greek god of war Ares. So I rp fight him again using that character. Once again, I said screw it, because it was basically just a measuring contest of who could god-mod more. I never talked to him again.
Except whenever we were both on, and I was rping as either character, and he complained, saying that I couldn't use them, because they were 'dead'.
So, I had seen this guy god-modding with other people, and I thought that, since I had a character (and still use him to this day, the first character I ever made) that was OP as hell. He has basically the power to do anything, but I don't really use that for combat, mostly just for like summoning objects to use. He also has Deadpools brand of immortality, meaning he dies, then comes back like 10 minutes later.
So anyways, I was thinking since I had this practically godlike character, I'd be able to take him down a notch, by beating him at his own game. We start up an rp, and after a while I lethim kill me, just to demonstrate the coming-back-to-life ability. Then he starts complaining, saying I can't do that. We eventually get back to the rp, and I eventually go Trunks on him, slicing him up into little pieces, and blowing him up. He said that it didn't count, because his character couldn't die. I said screw it and abandoned it.
I then thought: Two can play at that game. So I created a character that was literally the ancient Greek god of war Ares. So I rp fight him again using that character. Once again, I said screw it, because it was basically just a measuring contest of who could god-mod more. I never talked to him again.
Except whenever we were both on, and I was rping as either character, and he complained, saying that I couldn't use them, because they were 'dead'.
Hone_Onna wrote:
Now F... F was like the poster child for a poorly made character. F had BPD, I think that's what it's called, and had three different personalities in one body. One was this cute little cat girl, one was an assassin, and one was like the embodiment of her pain or something. Make no mistake, I've got nothing against characters who are mentally ill. In fact, some of the most fun characters I've interacted with had some form of mental illness. But, anyone whose ever made one with a mental illness will agree that there is a right way and a wrong way to do it. Well F was the perfect example of the WRONG way to do it. So, that's another issue that existed.
From someone who actually has Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), I can tell you they got all the details wrong right off the bat. In fact, the "symptoms" sound more akin to someone who has Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD). Even then, it's clear they didn't do their research.
They might as well have said the character was a shapeshifter and it would've been more believeable. ...Sorry for looking like I just put on the advocate hat; it's honestly the thoughtlessness of character design in regards to mental disorders that irks me to no end.
Would a person claiming to own a canon character count?
I believe so.
LightSide-Lucree wrote:
Hone_Onna wrote:
Now F... F was like the poster child for a poorly made character. F had BPD, I think that's what it's called, and had three different personalities in one body. One was this cute little cat girl, one was an assassin, and one was like the embodiment of her pain or something. Make no mistake, I've got nothing against characters who are mentally ill. In fact, some of the most fun characters I've interacted with had some form of mental illness. But, anyone whose ever made one with a mental illness will agree that there is a right way and a wrong way to do it. Well F was the perfect example of the WRONG way to do it. So, that's another issue that existed.
From someone who actually has Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), I can tell you they got all the details wrong right off the bat. In fact, the "symptoms" sound more akin to someone who has Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD). Even then, it's clear they didn't do their research.
They might as well have said the character was a shapeshifter and it would've been more believeable. ...Sorry for looking like I just put on the advocate hat; it's honestly the thoughtlessness of character design in regards to mental disorders that irks me to no end.
And that's why that part of his character bothered me so much. It's also why I personally only give my characters issues I have personal experience with, because mental illness isn't a joke or something that should be taken lightly. And by all means, advocate a way. Having open, positive conversation about mental illness can make a world of difference to someone.
I am "That Guy"
Well... At least, I know I was.
I still am, though... That's why I try to get better.
Well... At least, I know I was.
I still am, though... That's why I try to get better.
Tamamo wrote:
I am "That Guy"
Well... At least, I know I was.
I still am, though... That's why I try to get better.
Well... At least, I know I was.
I still am, though... That's why I try to get better.
If you want I can offer to help you with that. Just beware that all harshness in criticism is to help you improve and is never a personal insult. Some people can't take criticism, and the first step to being better is realizing You can improve!
There was a case of a person forbidding anyone to play as the same person that they were. There was one person who claimed he worked for Square-Enix and said that he was in Japan and at E3 at the same time. Saying that he was talking to the creator of Devil May Cry and that he would "buy it" and forbid anyone to play as Dante from Devil May Cry. Mind you, this person claimed he was in his thirties.
The same case was when a 25 year old (He's in his 30's now) claimed he was the best roleplayer of a certain character. Then when he saw a person roleplay as the same person, he threw a fit and sent her death threats.
I mean, I RP as canons and I am rubbish as OCs, but I am not gonna lunge at another person if they RP the same person as me. I will say something and try to help if they are doing the character wrong or using them for fetish and fap.
I been harassed for RPing canons,but hey. Roleplay is about having fun and a writing hobby. That's why I stay away from the whole OC vs Canon debacle. Which happened in 2014 with some person claiming to be older and using that she had half of a brain as an excuse for her "actions" and to sponge some sympathy.
@ ScullBurner
I met people who can't take criticism, be it over their typing or how they play a canon character or even their OC. When I was learning English, I took criticism. I just find it sad when people in their 20's and older refuse to take criticism and throw a fit. IT's sadder when they can't handle it and start crying and making public posts, expecting people to hold their hands.
The same case was when a 25 year old (He's in his 30's now) claimed he was the best roleplayer of a certain character. Then when he saw a person roleplay as the same person, he threw a fit and sent her death threats.
I mean, I RP as canons and I am rubbish as OCs, but I am not gonna lunge at another person if they RP the same person as me. I will say something and try to help if they are doing the character wrong or using them for fetish and fap.
I been harassed for RPing canons,but hey. Roleplay is about having fun and a writing hobby. That's why I stay away from the whole OC vs Canon debacle. Which happened in 2014 with some person claiming to be older and using that she had half of a brain as an excuse for her "actions" and to sponge some sympathy.
@ ScullBurner
I met people who can't take criticism, be it over their typing or how they play a canon character or even their OC. When I was learning English, I took criticism. I just find it sad when people in their 20's and older refuse to take criticism and throw a fit. IT's sadder when they can't handle it and start crying and making public posts, expecting people to hold their hands.
Yep. This community has some weird people. And sore rpers. Though I mean sometimes if you're bad enough at a canon you should just stop.
ScullBurner wrote:
Yep. This community has some weird people. And sore rpers. Though I mean sometimes if you're bad enough at a canon you should just stop.
If people ruin a canon character and just use "It's RP! Who cares" is an excuse IMO. If you seriously want an RP where a character acting themselves, an OC works. AU can work, but at least keep them to themselves. I study my characters carefully before RPing them. This happens on DeviantART and other places allot where people butcher a character.
I RP as canons to help with coping. I RP characters I can relate to.
I am open to RPing with OCs, as long they aren't throwing a fit over what I RP as.
:0 U NEED 2 ARPEE AS SHREK OR I HATE U >:C I AM A REAL GOOD GARNET SO U BETTER BE GOOD...
*goes on and completely butchers garnet*
*goes on and completely butchers garnet*
I haven't had too many "that guy." problems. Except on another site there was a really gross person who asked for something inappropriate with a minor character. *shutters* I also have had people just ditch an RP without so much as saying "goodbye." Which is always hurtful!
ScullBurner wrote:
:0 U NEED 2 ARPEE AS SHREK OR I HATE U >:C I AM A REAL GOOD GARNET SO U BETTER BE GOOD...
*goes on and completely butchers garnet*
*goes on and completely butchers garnet*
I....I think I lost some braincells reading that..... I have seen people who write like that to...
damnationfromafar wrote:
I have had huge problems with people being very undetailed, and writing very short indescriptive posts. Despite the fact that I always very kindly put that I have a one paragraph (4-5 sentences) minimum with posts. So it's frustrating when I tell them this, and ask them if that's alright, and if they are able to do that. I don't want to have them do something they aren't able to easily do, or aren't comfortable with you know - then they say yes, but then I discover they weren't being quiet so honest.
My posts also page from 1 para, all the way to six, or seven paras. I do not expect that much from anyone else though.I am perfectly happy with me writing long posts, and the person's response not being as long. Some peoples posts are longer than mine at times, and it doesn't bother me one bit. How long a post is, is usually relative to what's going on, and what is going through the character's head.
So I always tell people my posts are min of one paragraph, but can be as long as six or seven, so they are aware, and aren't surprised. Yet somehow, people still complain about the length of my posts, even though I told them upfront just how long they can get. These people also tend to be the same people who lie about being para or multi-para posters.
My posts also page from 1 para, all the way to six, or seven paras. I do not expect that much from anyone else though.I am perfectly happy with me writing long posts, and the person's response not being as long. Some peoples posts are longer than mine at times, and it doesn't bother me one bit. How long a post is, is usually relative to what's going on, and what is going through the character's head.
So I always tell people my posts are min of one paragraph, but can be as long as six or seven, so they are aware, and aren't surprised. Yet somehow, people still complain about the length of my posts, even though I told them upfront just how long they can get. These people also tend to be the same people who lie about being para or multi-para posters.
I have met so many people like that. Or they sometimes say they have had books published. When I once Rped with some person who claimed they could dish out well detailed paragraphs, all I go was "*smiles and walks around*" from them.
I am a very passionate writer and I feel kind of cheated when I get a one word response. Some group RPs I have been on other forums turned into One liner or one word gobbledygook and a mess. To the point I get bored and just leave the roleplay entirely. I understand that some people wish to keep an RP alive, but machine gun responses that are short on description or lack any depth will bore me.
I can't say I am fond of some RPs on forums that encourage everyone to join the stories and then have an admin no getting that people have lives or that they just feel uncomfortable in community stories. I kind of like making a story and then have people joining in.
ThePsychicBruiser wrote:
damnationfromafar wrote:
I have had huge problems with people being very undetailed, and writing very short indescriptive posts. Despite the fact that I always very kindly put that I have a one paragraph (4-5 sentences) minimum with posts. So it's frustrating when I tell them this, and ask them if that's alright, and if they are able to do that. I don't want to have them do something they aren't able to easily do, or aren't comfortable with you know - then they say yes, but then I discover they weren't being quiet so honest.
My posts also page from 1 para, all the way to six, or seven paras. I do not expect that much from anyone else though.I am perfectly happy with me writing long posts, and the person's response not being as long. Some peoples posts are longer than mine at times, and it doesn't bother me one bit. How long a post is, is usually relative to what's going on, and what is going through the character's head.
So I always tell people my posts are min of one paragraph, but can be as long as six or seven, so they are aware, and aren't surprised. Yet somehow, people still complain about the length of my posts, even though I told them upfront just how long they can get. These people also tend to be the same people who lie about being para or multi-para posters.
My posts also page from 1 para, all the way to six, or seven paras. I do not expect that much from anyone else though.I am perfectly happy with me writing long posts, and the person's response not being as long. Some peoples posts are longer than mine at times, and it doesn't bother me one bit. How long a post is, is usually relative to what's going on, and what is going through the character's head.
So I always tell people my posts are min of one paragraph, but can be as long as six or seven, so they are aware, and aren't surprised. Yet somehow, people still complain about the length of my posts, even though I told them upfront just how long they can get. These people also tend to be the same people who lie about being para or multi-para posters.
I have met so many people like that. Or they sometimes say they have had books published. When I once Rped with some person who claimed they could dish out well detailed paragraphs, all I go was "*smiles and walks around*" from them.
I am a very passionate writer and I feel kind of cheated when I get a one word response. Some group RPs I have been on other forums turned into One liner or one word gobbledygook and a mess. To the point I get bored and just leave the roleplay entirely. I understand that some people wish to keep an RP alive, but machine gun responses that are short on description or lack any depth will bore me.
I can't say I am fond of some RPs on forums that encourage everyone to join the stories and then have an admin no getting that people have lives or that they just feel uncomfortable in community stories. I kind of like making a story and then have people joining in.
You guys too? I had one person like that who just gave me *kills every foe that comes his way* and one shot replies I could barely reply to. I eventually got bored out of my mind, started dreading to respond to them and eventually stopped talking to them in general. I don't mind people who do indeed give me one paragraph, but this guy was bragging like he was an experienced RPer.
What Psychic said is actually why I don't do forum RP... I'm only part of one here so far. It's also kind of a pain when you join up in what seems to be a decent group or forum RP where your character or style could fit, then some players start becoming more elaborate and showy or shorter and less precise than they were before you showed up. (Also, when you jump in, it gets really slow in replies, but as soon as you leave, it picks up in regular activity again.) It feels like that's their own way of shoving or singling you out, really. But that's what I've tended to notice from some group RPs, especially really close knit ones.
I think the main reason for such collisions are the difference in the background. Many people start to roleplay over instant chat messengers. Such roleplays differ a lot from sites such as the RpRepository where you do not get an instant reply most of the time.
If people understood that the length of your post should be proportional to the average response time then short messages should not be a problem. (although I have and had some rps with the chat feature on here, so I cover both bases here.)
Many people also write shorter posts because of their fear to be 'that guy'. Mind that writing much can also block the options for your partner. Maintaining a delicate balance so that it is fun for every person involved can only happen if both are humble enough to adapt.
Unfortunatly that is not always the case.
(Personally, seeing bad spelling and grammar is a huge turn-off for me, albeit not being native to the language myself. Which is interesting because I love ranting like this but also feel bad doing so
. Glad that others feel the same about the topic, doesn't make me feel so alone 
)
If people understood that the length of your post should be proportional to the average response time then short messages should not be a problem. (although I have and had some rps with the chat feature on here, so I cover both bases here.)
Many people also write shorter posts because of their fear to be 'that guy'. Mind that writing much can also block the options for your partner. Maintaining a delicate balance so that it is fun for every person involved can only happen if both are humble enough to adapt.
Unfortunatly that is not always the case.
(Personally, seeing bad spelling and grammar is a huge turn-off for me, albeit not being native to the language myself. Which is interesting because I love ranting like this but also feel bad doing so
. Glad that others feel the same about the topic, doesn't make me feel so alone )
Well I wouldn't say any of my encounters are nearly as bad as others here but I have indeed ran into quite a few... Disappointing ones.
Most of the time I'm pretty chill and lenient on a lot of things whether it was roleplay or whatever but this one guy really pushed my patience to the max. Not only was he bad a roleplay but he practically stalked me and constantly bombed me with continued posts to the roleplay after his five to eight word responses which were also bad in grammar and hard to understand at times. Eventually I did what almost any person would do and asked not to continue anymore. But the moment I did that he exploded, telling me my RP was crap among other hurtful insults. The insult on my RP did hurt a bit too actually seeing as how I always give it my all into para or depending on my partner at the time. That and I was highly sensitive on my skills as an RPer.
For the longest I just stopped talking to him, ignoring or blocking him from messaging me but every time he would get another account JUST to insult me more or say he was "sorry" Eventually I got sick of it, deleted my profiles and left the site we were on for awhile. Not sure if he's on that site anymore but so long as he stays away from me I'm fine. Bad thing was I gave up on RP for quite awhile as well and even now I rarely do it. Mostly because I'm too shy to message anyone here. ^^'
Also... Godmodders are the worst. Anyways that's my little story. Not much but it's mine.
Most of the time I'm pretty chill and lenient on a lot of things whether it was roleplay or whatever but this one guy really pushed my patience to the max. Not only was he bad a roleplay but he practically stalked me and constantly bombed me with continued posts to the roleplay after his five to eight word responses which were also bad in grammar and hard to understand at times. Eventually I did what almost any person would do and asked not to continue anymore. But the moment I did that he exploded, telling me my RP was crap among other hurtful insults. The insult on my RP did hurt a bit too actually seeing as how I always give it my all into para or depending on my partner at the time. That and I was highly sensitive on my skills as an RPer.
For the longest I just stopped talking to him, ignoring or blocking him from messaging me but every time he would get another account JUST to insult me more or say he was "sorry" Eventually I got sick of it, deleted my profiles and left the site we were on for awhile. Not sure if he's on that site anymore but so long as he stays away from me I'm fine. Bad thing was I gave up on RP for quite awhile as well and even now I rarely do it. Mostly because I'm too shy to message anyone here. ^^'
Also... Godmodders are the worst. Anyways that's my little story. Not much but it's mine.
LightSide-Lucree wrote:
ThePsychicBruiser wrote:
damnationfromafar wrote:
I have had huge problems with people being very undetailed, and writing very short indescriptive posts. Despite the fact that I always very kindly put that I have a one paragraph (4-5 sentences) minimum with posts. So it's frustrating when I tell them this, and ask them if that's alright, and if they are able to do that. I don't want to have them do something they aren't able to easily do, or aren't comfortable with you know - then they say yes, but then I discover they weren't being quiet so honest.
My posts also page from 1 para, all the way to six, or seven paras. I do not expect that much from anyone else though.I am perfectly happy with me writing long posts, and the person's response not being as long. Some peoples posts are longer than mine at times, and it doesn't bother me one bit. How long a post is, is usually relative to what's going on, and what is going through the character's head.
So I always tell people my posts are min of one paragraph, but can be as long as six or seven, so they are aware, and aren't surprised. Yet somehow, people still complain about the length of my posts, even though I told them upfront just how long they can get. These people also tend to be the same people who lie about being para or multi-para posters.
My posts also page from 1 para, all the way to six, or seven paras. I do not expect that much from anyone else though.I am perfectly happy with me writing long posts, and the person's response not being as long. Some peoples posts are longer than mine at times, and it doesn't bother me one bit. How long a post is, is usually relative to what's going on, and what is going through the character's head.
So I always tell people my posts are min of one paragraph, but can be as long as six or seven, so they are aware, and aren't surprised. Yet somehow, people still complain about the length of my posts, even though I told them upfront just how long they can get. These people also tend to be the same people who lie about being para or multi-para posters.
I have met so many people like that. Or they sometimes say they have had books published. When I once Rped with some person who claimed they could dish out well detailed paragraphs, all I go was "*smiles and walks around*" from them.
I am a very passionate writer and I feel kind of cheated when I get a one word response. Some group RPs I have been on other forums turned into One liner or one word gobbledygook and a mess. To the point I get bored and just leave the roleplay entirely. I understand that some people wish to keep an RP alive, but machine gun responses that are short on description or lack any depth will bore me.
I can't say I am fond of some RPs on forums that encourage everyone to join the stories and then have an admin no getting that people have lives or that they just feel uncomfortable in community stories. I kind of like making a story and then have people joining in.
You guys too? I had one person like that who just gave me *kills every foe that comes his way* and one shot replies I could barely reply to. I eventually got bored out of my mind, started dreading to respond to them and eventually stopped talking to them in general. I don't mind people who do indeed give me one paragraph, but this guy was bragging like he was an experienced RPer.
What Psychic said is actually why I don't do forum RP... I'm only part of one here so far. It's also kind of a pain when you join up in what seems to be a decent group or forum RP where your character or style could fit, then some players start becoming more elaborate and showy or shorter and less precise than they were before you showed up. It feels like that's their own way of shoving or singling you out, really. But that's what I've tended to notice from some group RPs.
This RP forum and a couple others are the only ones I stay on. Because it has different categories where everyone can make a story. If something I wrote gets a one word response. I am not gonna bother.
I have seen script/oneliner posts on dA which are bad and cringe.
I have mentioned this before, but I can't stand OC vs Canon debacle. Everyone can RP what they want. Just don't bash each other.
Not everyone is good at making OCs and not everyone can pull off canon characters. Iview RP as a fun hobby.
Back to the topic.
I once met a guy back in 2012 who was extremely arrogant. He claimed he could RP any character and would threaten to beat people up by Rping. He claimed he made his OC when he was six years old and would go off on tangents. He once got banned on a place for showing a "I AM BETTER DEN YOU!" attitude. He than ran another site, but was so pushy and rude.
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