[quote=@Balance]
<Snipped quote by Multifarious>

Perhaps it's a matter of you expecting us to have things with which to continue a conversation, but we expect the same, and so the whoel thing grinds to a halt because we end up both doing things that kill the conversation. That's what I've seen, at least.
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Even with entire new conversation starters or whole new questions, or just things that are otherwise massively easy to respond to.
A few recent examples with my unnamed character:
[url]http://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/3408434[/url]
[url]http://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/3408124[/url]
[url]http://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/3394957[/url]