Hehe. Yeah, I am very "READ THE RULES!" in my thread (in a nice way of course). I post the pairing, with a plot, etc. I make it clear what I want in most cases (unless I'm being lazy). And I try to talk to them a bit OOC to get a feel for them. This guy, however, seemed so nice OOC and appeared to be literate to the standards requested.

Personally, looking back, I think he was a troll. lol. One of those people who hate anyone who has a standard. I understand that one needs guidance of some sort to improve, but you cannot expect someone far above your level to just drop down to yours because you feel you 'deserve' it. That's the sad thing. A lot of people THINK they deserve something.

I tell people on some of my threads that, if they want to quit, all they have to say is; "I'm too busy right now to continue this. Sorry." And I won't ask questions. They at least had the common decency to tell me the were quitting and I don't need to question why.

I once had a guy send me an opener. Now, how he wrote was grammatically incorrect and blahblahblah. There were things about how he wrote that just made it not so enjoyable for me to read, alone with the other issue. It wasn't a situation worth going; "Look, this-this-this and that are all incorrect. It should be---". It was how he wrote. I wasn't going to change it.

So, I simply explained our writing styles were too different, and they were. His style was how he wrote. I wouldn't be able to fix it. The grammatical problem, maybe, but the rest, no. It was just how he liked to write. I was very polite in saying it, no insults, no nothing. He erupted on me basically telling me; "You could just tell me I suck!" And so on and so forth. I wasn't insulting him, and far from trying to. It amazes me how people can be so sensitive to the point they react so negatively.

Honestly, that's one reason I posted this. I think being able to rant about bad experiences just helps.

Of course, it's harder to get a mod's help on this version of the site. No report buttons yet. lol.