As I have said before:

[i]If you are in a role-play where you are not reading the posts in the IC… then you are frankly, a bad role-player. That’s the end of it, there’s no middle ground. If you are not aware of the events occurring from your co-writers and peers then you shouldn’t be in that role-play or perhaps in a role-play at all. Understanding concurrent events, actions, and dialogue/thoughts are central to writing with people – otherwise as someone said before: don’t bother and go write your own prose by yourself. Nothing frustrates me more than someone who skim-reads but to learn that a lot of people here have admitted to NOT READING THEIR WRITING PARTNERS MATERIAL is downright unacceptable and blatantly disgusting.[/i]