[quote=@NuttsnBolts]
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.[/quote]

This is the part that sucks, and I think, a problem that has been going on in Guild for years. Things have definitely changed since Guild went down and came back up. One thing that has not changed is capable roleplayers being intimidated by the "Advanced" label. It's pretty suck ass. Before Guild went down, I had only just started RPing in Advanced. So I know exactly how those frightened RPers feel joining an Advanced RP. But, what I've noticed, is a lot of the people most scared to migrate to advanced are also talented and capable of doing so. They're just underestimating themselves. 

ON the other hand, we now also, for some reason (and this is going to sound rude), have less capable roleplayers, who have too much confidence stuck up their buttholes to realize they're not exactly on par with the writing that Advanced standards indicate. So, they're clogging up all the space these shy writers could be taking up instead. This other group should be focused on improving their skill, [i]not[/i] flaunting what they don't have.  

[quote=@NuttsnBolts]
[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]
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I think this would be both a good and a bad idea. If [i]depth[/i] was not such a crucial part to Advanced writing, I feel like this could truly work, and maybe, add some really fresh faces to the Advanced section. But since word count alone doesn't necessarily indicate any amount of literacy or deep writing, you might still end up with that roleplayer who's ego is inflated because he/she/whatever they prefer writes really long posts, as opposed to posts with meaning.

[quote=@Hank]
I've noticed this as well, but at this point I don't even remember what the old Advanced quality really was. I like to think my own roleplay(s) adhere to ye olde standard. Do they [i]really[/i], though? I don't know. 
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I remember Advanced writers as being scary, with big sticks up their asses, and I remember Advanced posts as being long, long, long, long, and sometimes with depth, and sometimes without. Either way, I feel like it was more stringent back then, even if not everyone in the section was an amazing writer. Also more elitist. Back then, three of four people used to be browsing the Advanced roleplaying section. Nowadays, at any given time, you can see up [i]fourteen[/i] people on [i]at the same time[/i]. I like it better this way though. More variety. It's just disappointing to see that with the good comes the bad, but I guess that's to be expected. 

Either way, I've seen like, one of your RPs, which I think just recently, was the Elder Scrolls RP. I considered joining, by not only do I feel booked, I also never played any Elder Scrolls game 'cept for Skyrim. But, it looked like an Advanced Roleplay to me, I think :hmm