[@Strawberry425] I can completely understand where you are coming from as the High Casual/Low Advance 'categories' help to create a grey area that really isn't needed and it does become difficult to weed out what is a true Casual or Advance roleplay. In comparison Free is very different to both Casual and Advanced as it has very little placed in it's structure and design along with speed posting and often 'Jump In' style of RPs (I could never see a 'Jump In' Advance working out well).

I think what makes this difficult is that people are trying to categorise a style of writing into a black and white scenario. It's like categorising music as Rock, or Electronica, but then when you get down to the nitty gritty there's sub genres and fusion genres which will mix various elements together thus making Industrial Rock, Jungle (Drum and Bass) and even Funk (A mixture with Soul, Jazz, and R&B).

What I do notice is that many Casual RPs should probably be moved towards the Advanced forum based on the general depth and length of the posts but people are too afraid to make their threads there as the Casual area has the most user activity out of the three tiers (12/34/9 viewers in Free/Casual/Advance). Adding to that, Advance does come across as an area that has no limitations to depth and length with some High Casual users possibly feeling afraid of accidentally getting into an RP that is beyond their capabilities or required to read posts that stretch on for several paragraphs.

No I don't think you're being bitchy. You're just being honest and it is a frustration that is perfectly understandable. There should be a bit more of a break between the two categories for people to understand the difference and this is one of the few communities that organises it's RPs this way rather than the typical "Fantasy, Sci-Fi, School" type of organisation which in my opinion is worse as both hinders creativity and confuses people about their skill level.

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[i]Branching off from this. I wondered if a thread check could work where after 10 or 15 IC posts if the character count is above a certain number [/i](let's say 5,000, ie approx 900 words, for argument sake)[i] it could suggest to the GM that the RP be migrated from the Casual to Advance where they check 'ok' to move it or 'no' to discard the message. It could be used as a bit of a teaching tool to help show the difference is requirement while also helping to populate the Advance section a bit more.[/i]