[quote=@Bishop]It really makes it hard to read other people's posts when 90% is pure fluff and personal thoughts of their character.[/quote]

Glad I'm not alone in this. Thank God for college because while mostly useless, the one thing it invariably teaches lazy bastards like me is how to skim-read and gather only the most pertinent information from a long, bloated text. I read only the most necessary chunks of bad writers' posts because roleplaying is a hobby, and if my hobby makes me cringe and otherwise causes me discomfort instead of pleasure then it fails to serve its own fundamental purpose: entertainment. Having to skim five paragraphs for the two sentences of relevant information hidden therein is annoying enough without being told in this thread that I'm "disgusting" for daring not to enjoy myself as I trudge through a page of redundant and pretentious prose, dreadful characters, and superfluous information which will never help me assimilate into the game world.

Most players should be mature enough to suffer their own actions' consequences anyway, so if they end up not reading something which is crucial to the story then why not realize they brought it upon themselves? Wanting to force anyone to read your posts is arrogant enough, but doubly so when you declare on their behalf that you know better than them what information they should be gleaning from the texts.

Isn't that, like, a metaphysical example of "telling" instead of "showing"?  Your writing should speak for itself. If this problem has followed people across many RPs then I'd propose that it's no longer an issue of audience but one of a writer who reliably fails to engage them. Instead of trying to hold your audience at gunpoint and coerce them into reading your bad posts, learning how to create a better hook and how to write in a more direct, precise style, one with fewer pointless details and less artistic autofellatio, will actually get them [i]excited[/i] to read. If no one wants to read your contributions to the story then you should interpret their indifference as a chance to improve your skills, not a chance to feel indignant about no one paying attention to you. The [i]real[/i] "disgusting" thing to be found in this thread is that some of you would rather blame your fellow roleplayers for problems which may very well reside within your own writing. I know that I for one am eager to read a thread (even one in which I'm not participating!) when the plot progresses steadily, the characters mature and develop in real time, and the setting and genre are presented in unique ways.

Food for thought. Of course this doesn't account for irreconcilable stylistic differences between players; you'll never please everyone, and some people aren't interested in reading anyone's writing but their own no matter how good it may be.