On that note, one thing that kind of confuses me a bit is when people have half of their post be "what if" scenarios.  Like, um, "If X happens I do Y, if Z happens I do W, if A happens I do B", etc. etc.  I've only seen a couple of people do it but it's... I dunno, part of me feels it kind of misses the point of roleplaying being all about [i]reacting[/i] to stuff rather than preparing for every eventuallity in advance.

I mean sure, pre-planning things you're going to do in advance is all well and fine, but this is ridiculous.