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[quote=Crimson Flame]
[quote=Jester Acharis]
I've also done shorter roleplays with < 500 words, sometimes even < 200 words on messengers and stuff though  and, eh, that's never been a problem either. Although I _have _sometimes purposefully cut posts shorter if they go on for too long and others post shorter ones - precisely to avoid people crying over "not being able to match". Which is a stupid concept anyway; you write for as long as you feel like you have something to say and then stop. Done. Easy.[/quote]

It isn't so much about not being able to catch up. It's just if (for example) everyone else is writing 1000 or more words regularly, and I'm only doing the bare minimum regularly, it makes it look like I'm not putting in as much effort as everyone else. >_> Even though that may not be true, and I just don't feel the need to restate [i]everything[/i] everyone else before me has already said.
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Wait, what? I never mentioned anything about being able to catch up, where'd you get that? I was talking about "matching", aka, matching others' post length. And if anything, your example is [i]exactly[/i] the kind of  mentality I was talking about. Which I still don't get, btw. I dunno, maybe it's just me, but I think it's easy to see who has put effort into a post and who hasn't, length be damned. I'd rather have a shorter post that makes sense as a response to what I write, than a long one that's long only because it's been padded to reach whatever length the poster thinks is the norm. I've been in rps where people did that, and reading through posts where the author describes a mailbox for three paragraphs to be able to write posts as long as everyone else was [i]painful[/i]. (And yes, that's an actual example.)

And yeah, I'm not talking about replying to 1000 word posts with one-liners without any response hooks here, obviously.
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I read something about catching up somewhere...

Well, I don't want people to think I'm lazy or anything. Not that I care what a bunch of random people on the internet think, but I have to RP with these people. xD 

People still associate the length of something written with how much effort was put into it. Blame schools for insisting on having a minimum word count for papers and whatnot. >_> *shrugs*