[quote=@The Elvenqueen]Not directed at anyone on this site, rather someone I'm roleplaying with on another site. But...when you're trying to advance a plot or a certain group of characters forward in an RP and somebody [i]just stops replying to it[/i] or removes their characters from the setting for [i]no good reason[/i] and basically refuses to help the damn plot move forward >_<[/quote]

I'm not sure if that player might have some issues with the RP or certain players that caused him/her to make such a move, so maybe talk to them and see what's the true problem behind that?

On the other hand, RPing with leeches who always take the back seat and not helping constructively to push the plot forward with the other players is really vexing. Like, if you'd rather be a spectator than a participant, then why are you joining the RP for?

Vice versa: when everyone has already advanced the plot forward, some guy suddenly came back from a long disappearance to force their character into the rising action in a cringe-worthy contrived way. Like, if they actually bothered to discuss with the GM and took the GM's advice to get their character back into the game in a logical, natural way, everyone would gladly welcome the player back... instead of doing the complete opposite, and made us wonder what the hell that BS post was about.

Another bitching but from a different RP site: not that I have an issue with melodramatic characters, but everyone is playing a brooding, angsty type that it's difficult to strike up any interesting conversation or character development with them, because all I keep feeling from their characters was to stay far [i]far[/i] away from them and ignore their existence. Which I'd gladly do so since all their angsty shit is really making me bored with their childish depressing crap. Grow up already, dammit. (And it didn't help that I'm playing a child character due to the RP setup, and honestly no kid would want to deal with angsty teens and their petty emo nonsense.)