You know what's slightly annoying? Elitists. I mean, I understand wanting to play with others of you skill level and capacity because it's more fun that way 'for you'. I understand people looking for that kind of group, because we're all about our personal opinions. Some of us have the will to GM these opinions and ideas into a functioning world. Some of us do not have that drive, the time, or the will. But there are really just two things that irritate me. I'll keep this short and simple.

#1: Elitist Evangelist: He or She who joins a group expecting it to be withhold their ideals. Perhaps the rp idea is just too good to pass up, perhaps it looks to most promising, perhaps a friend is in it. "That's Alright," The evangelist thinks, "I'll just PM the GM on my opinions of the would-be recruits and let him know that their skill level doesn't nearly fit the criteria for this RP regardless of how the GM or the players feel, I'm sure I can convince him." "Well," The evangelist thinks, "Perhaps the GM will see it my way when I convince all his prospective players that it should be this way or we'll all leave and start our own thread based off of this ideal, or something totally different because fuck you that's why don't let the noobs join."

#2: GM's who can't understand that we were all noobs once. I'm sure nobody here picked up a pencil in kindergarten and wrote a best selling novel (and if you did link it because I'd very much like to read it, especially if it involves a plague of cooties.) Writing some one off because their character doesn't have a twelve page biography, or because they 'forgot' something in the base story, or left out a detail on something you had made thirty-seven posts back. I'm not a fan of elitists because I feel everyone at some point should reach back and help the community out. Yes some people are ungrateful and dumb and can't, won't be helped. But is that person really the only one you could have? On the opposite hand it's irritating to see players from other sections use the "Oh, this looks too hard... I guess.. I just won't.. make.. a.. CS.. here... sorry... bye." method, I will personally slam the door on you. Or the "looks good, better go post this idea in casual because they'll never let me in advanced." Even better the simply blind to your offers to let them join so that they can improve. I try to help those who wander over from casual, hell they could come from free.

You know what really, REALLY, makes me mad? "I'm a better roleplayer." No you're not, there is no roleplay rank. Yes, their are categorized divisions using common terminology so everybody can find a group that resembles their creative outlet, I give you that. "Advanced" does not make me better than "Free" or "Casual". It means I am willing and able to express myself more. Roleplaying is creative writing from all ends, creativity is not a measurable skill. "But Aeon, how come museums don't show case my art?" Because everything that has ever existed for any reason is all based off of opinions on how you feel it's measurable worth it conceived. Some people may like something more than something else, some people may buy that thing because that person thought that. It's all expressionism, people who can't understand that piss me off.

From an arguable standpoint, and to be contradictory, yes, you can be better. But you'll only ever achieve as much greatest as others perceive you to be. Understanding that all creative writing is good, because it is creative, is one of the doors to a higher state of being. Yes, even those terrible one liners are good, because that's how much effort they choose to express themselves. You don't know how much creative ideal that one liner sparks inside their head, just because it isn't written over two-hundred seventy-two paragraphs.

That's my bitching. If you want to argue about it PM me, I love debates.