ArenaSnow - On the subject of what you said at the end there, I've found that I almost universally post longer than all of the people that I got involved with, but thankfully their posts were never short enough for it to become a problem. Admittedly I am definitely more of the "long post" instead of "short post" type of person, but length is less important than giving the other people enough to actually work with for a reply, and to create the atmosphere needed for them to get into that reply, so it honestly has never bothered me if people posted shorter than I did so long as it wasn't something that couldn't be worked with.

Definitely agree that the biggest problem that seems to come up with role-players though is their lack of dedication. The people who actually want to make something of what they're doing and don't completely role-play in a casual light end up getting into situations where people essentially keep walking out on the stories they had initially seemed passionate about, either because whatever phase they were in passed or because they were just role-playing out of boredom.

This is a topic about positive experiences with role-playing though, not negative, so I won't let this post of mine turn anymore off topic than it already is. I guess you can just interpret this as me saying that situations where the parties involved were all devoted to what they were doing generally resulted in the better experiences.