[quote=@Inkarnate] What I was asking (partially playing devil’s advocate for the sake of discussion) was doesn’t it set a bad precedent to go into a collaborative project with the perspective of “not giving a fuck about” your peers characters and as a byproduct their posts and prose? This isn’t to suggest you are going to [i]tell[/i] them such a thing, but rather the speculation of negatively framing your peers and having an apathetic outlook being largely unproductive and against the whole point your collaborating in the first place.[/quote] Yeah but see, I'm not a roleplayer that believes everyone should be treated equally in the roleplay. There are stronger roleplayers and there are weaker roleplayers. That is fine, but there are also those that come in from free roleplay without the willingness to learn or adapt, who seem to lack any and all awareness about what they're doing, and at that point, and that is a point that is relatively hard to reach but somehow still gets reached everytime I am in an RP, at that point I decide not to care. I am roleplaying not to write a great story of untold epic proportions, if I were doing that I'd definitely not be in any group RP's and [i]definitely[/i] wouldn't be finding my partners on a website where, by all intents and purposes, people are just average writers at best with a few outliers to the better side of that spectrum and a [i]lot[/i] of outliers to the worse side of that spectrum. Now you can be idealistic and propose that I simply bear with these people and give their objectively worse characters as much attention as other people who put much more time and energy into not only their posts but just the creation of their character as well, just to be equal and fair. But I just don't feel like doing that. [quote]against the whole point your collaborating in the first place.[/quote] Commenting on that further, as I explicitly stated two times, if there is a large group and no interaction between my character and theirs, then this argument is nihil, nul, zero, absolutely worthless, because I am not collaborating with their character in the first place. If I were to do so in the future, either by choice of force of the plot, yes, naturally I'd read their posts. Begrudgingly perhaps, but I'd still do so, because I want my posts to make sense and to incorporate elements of the other posts. Collaborative writing. But if my character isn't collaborating with them, them I don't really feel there is any need (logistically) to read their posts. Perhaps out of respect. But as mentioned before, if their character just isn't qualitatively as good as the rest and is far, far below the standard of the roleplay.. eh. No. If they are willing and trying to improve, yeah, sure. But that's an if. And that's an if that personally I've stopped seeing on RPG after rebooting RPG. [quote=@Inkarnate]Yeah, and I don’t completely disagree with you. We’ve been in those Naruto sandboxes and I understand it can be a chore to read through everything. Now this may be just me, but even when I’m not a GM (whom, in my honest opinion, has an obligation and responsibility to read those posts) I still read every post in an IC even if it may not make sense per your purview to read them. I view it as an expected respect for those I am writing with whether I am in their ‘group’ or not within the framing of an IC. I feel it’s important to do that. I do see where you are coming from on this, though. Am I [i]obligated[/i] to read those posts? Beyond GM expectations, I’m probably not required to, no.[/quote] See, but that's the big question of this thread. The question isn't 'are you personally compelled to read every post either out of obligation [i]or out of respect[/i]'. Rather the question was [quote=@Ashevelendar ]Is it 100% needed for a RPer to read posts that don't concern your character, nor is a GM post or something that affects the story ?[/quote] The answer to that question is, rudimentarily, no. There is no [b]100%[/b] need to read posts that don't concern your character, or posts that don't affect the story. You can still write a good post without doing so, given the writers skill level is good enough. Reading a post out of respect =/= 100% requirement to read any and all posts. Is it still smart to do so? Naturally. But a 100% requirement I'd never call it. It also raises the question, what if I read the post after a while when I have time to read their posts? The post wasn't directly important to my character and I wanted, no, needed to get a post out today. If I go back the next day or, say, in a week, does that still count? The post following that was already written. I've already missed details potentially. But I still read the post? What about people who read posts but who are so caught up in their own world that they assume 99% of the post in their own post and their post makes no sense anymore? They [i]read[/i] the post. They just didn't read and understand. I suppose, following the logic of this thread and the people like [@NuttsnBolts] we should just tell these people to fuck off because they read the post but didn't understand it correctly. Questions, questions.