[quote=Gat]
Such a situation did happen way back in the guilds history, first or second year. advanced was more or less controlled by a handful of elitists who felt the need to tell anyone that couldn't make 6 paragraph posts every other day to bugger off.so many of us that disagreed with that approach fled to casual and coined the high-casual term. Eventually, after only a few months those elitists decided the guild simply wasn't good enough for them and moved on, made their own site I believe which promptly went through a number of problems before shutting down itself.
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Hah, thus always to elitists. They stuck around long enough to smear everyone else in the category with their doo, it seems. On the other hand, if players feel more secure writing in casual and want to stay there, well, that's more people writing. That in my mind, is the whole point.

[quote=Mahz]
In the end, the distinctions are far more successful and have lasted far longer than we thought they would. After all, they were never actually moderated.
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It always seemed like it was designed to give people a general idea of where to go for the amount of writing they wanted to do and what style suited them best. It makes a lot more sense than subdividing by genre, for example, at least in my mind. If we did do the organization of categories by genre rather than writing standard, there'd actually be a lot more confusion over writing standards and probably a lot more conflict between users in the long run. It's easier to navigate the stuff short of having a hashtag system where users can self-categorize their RP's.

[quote=Kestrel]
Advanced is pretty chill most of the time. As long as you do the two paragraphs, a spellcheck and don't spend your entire post in introspection, it's pretty hard to 'not be good enough' for advanced.
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It is. And that's why I said what I said regarding Advanced, As mentioned above, the reputation is often a misrepresentation of a lot of nice people that work hard on their stuff. Sometimes I feel the need to set the record straight. ;) By now, I've been in there for five years and know a lot of the people RP'ing in there. I feel, and I think a lot of people in there feel the same, that new blood is a great thing, and getting the essentials of what the standards are in Advanced, as opposed to the popular imagination of those standards, is the way to help bring some more people in.