[quote=@Odin]There's gonna be characters that my characters will never interact with, there's gonna be characters I simply don't give a fuck about, so I'm not gonna read all posts.[/quote]
Doesn’t that set a bad precedent for a collaborative story in the first place?

[quote=@yoshua171]Would you say in the case of a RP like the aforementioned Phoenix Wing, that it is in any way reasonable to ask someone to read all the posts in the IC thread (at the very least)?
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The difference here is Phoenix Wing is an established RP with a lot of content pre-established. In the case someone is to join that RP in question, it is either up to the GM to establish a requirement to read the RP to understand the content or to create a list of important events to ease that person into an ongoing RP. However, it is not the same as being with a RP from the beginning and refusing to read posts which I think what the topic is more centrally about.

[quote=@POOHEAD189][u]If they don't read the entire post[/u], they will miss subtle hints that my King is either a grim faced hard ass, or he is jolly enough to break bread with your faction, and if they miss that then it is their loss (and they deserve the loss). However, at least the narrative will continue easier and they'll know that my army of 10,000 northmen has crossed the border. (And again, it will be an incentive to read because they'll be wondering why they crossed, and what kind of troops are they, and who leads them, etc.)  [/quote]
This kind of falls into the “if you skim read or skip a post it is a fundamental issue” category in my mind. I can understand hobby writers might be strapped for time, but if they actually care about the project more often than not they will read a piece and if they have issues remembering all the details they will communicate that fact. It is not the writer’s responsibility to write a summary or synopsis. It is the reader’s responsibility to read.

[quote=@POOHEAD189]But I think to say they're bad at roleplaying is just plain elitism. [/quote]
Elitism seems to be a nice buzzword in arguments like this but I do not think myself or others are being elitist when we iterate that if you don’t respect the collaborative project and your peers enough to read their material then you probably aren’t suited to the medium. Role-playing is a [i]collaborative[/i] medium and if you aren’t being actually collaborative then what really is the point? It might be pompous and kind of rude for me to basically tell someone to not bother, sure, but it isn’t elitism.