[quote=EnchantedMedow] Ok do you really want me to vent. I have a bunch of things I hate on people not even in the community but in real life he on while I spell check my rants I have written down right next to me. When people mistake me for a boy on almost every account on almost every site I go on. Grrr do you not read user names, would any boy have a user name like enchanted meadow or enchanted forest?? Grrr. When people in roleplays suddenly stop posting and move on after the first twenty pages. That leaves the fateful rp's to sit and wait while the Gm finds new people. It never starts up again and then when the restart comes so do the same people from before. Get you mind straight. This is different as you get the react time but you can't do anything as the gmail mod is controlling who ever you fighting and if you harm the character you get kicked out. Rules that make no sense and keep the rp from getting interest or progressing. Gmods not accepting charecters and making people change major parts of the characters persona just to be in the rp. Let me see like minor changes like if the bio doesn't fit the plot and setting or the picture is anime and they wanted real. But saying you couldn't have the personality you took time perfecting because the good has a Girl that has a few of the traits. Grrr. I may add more I may not those are ones that go around rp'rs the rest are about posts and plot lines and Grrr. [/quote] Hmm. I guess I'll go in order, with possible ways to understand the circumstances and mitigate your Grrr: Alright, the username/sex problem. People think you're a boy, even though your username is "EnchantedMedow". Well, this is [i]very[/i] common, on the Guild and otherwise, as the majority of usernames (look at my own, even) are decidedly gender-neutral, and no one is forced to call themselves anything masculine or feminine. Until you know a person, until you have asked, or someone has told you, [i]anyone[/i] on the forums could have any sex/gender/orientation. Off the top of my head, look at Sherlock Holmes. Named after a male character, generally has an image of that male character as an avatar... She's a girl. Avatars, signatures and usernames are poor estimates of these things, and if it is truly irritating to you, I would recommend simply telling all of the people in your threads that you are a girl. There's not much else to be done. Tell them you're a girl, and then they'll know, and the ambiguity will be cleared up. The second one, people moving on after posting for a good while... Yeah, not much to say. This just happens, generally when those players aren't enjoying the RP as it is. I had a whole post about it close to the top of the last page. [i]"This is different as you get the react time but you can't do anything as the [GM] is controlling who ever you fighting and if you harm the character you get kicked out."[/i] Um, I don't know if this is exactly correct, but I think you're talking about combat against GM-controlled characters? And if you try to take out/"harm" the character, you get kicked out of the game? That seems... needlessly harsh. If you really can't convince them to let you back in, though, there's not much you can do. Try to find an RP with a less vengeful GM, I suppose. In at least some cases, though, you should be able to talk to the person and get back in. The last two, yeah... Just like the above, unreasonable GMing. I can see myself demanding massive rewrites only if I think the sheet is poorly done, or if the backstory itself is inherently perpendicular to the plot/setting (the character is the daughter/son of the villain without knowing anything [i]about[/i] the villain, that kind of thing). I'm also the type who's a stickler for lore, though, and I can be highly critical of characters who are created without an understanding of that lore... :( It can get kind of ridiculous. I'm trying to work on this.