Except the responsibility doesn’t go both ways. As a player you are obligated to read posts in that RP. If you skim read you are being flippant and being an indirect disruption to the process. You [i]are[/i] obligated to read and if you do not read the chances you understand the story or actions within it are null. It is not a two-way street. It’s a collaborative artform where you are [i]expected[/i] to participate in full regards to the role-play. Yes, is it [i]nice [/i]if you find each other’s prose interesting and everyone is actively (creatively and passionately) engaged. But as a participant of a project it is never okay for you not to read especially if the player you are interacting with has a style you find boring or bad.

The insinuation that this is a two-way street, to me, is absolutely absurd.

As I have said before:

[quote=@Inkarnate]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.
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