[quote=@Fabricant451]
I just dislike CS' in general. Often it feels like an application for a job and when some people ask for like multiple paragraphs (in casual, even) sometimes it makes the hobby feel more like work. But like, that's just me here and I'll fill out a sheet to the standards expressed even if it is often begrudgingly so. I've found that there are better ways to gauge potential than subjecting new RPers to a potentially intimidating sheet. In casual especially which always seemed to be like the comfortable ground between the lawless free pool and the advanced tower. [/quote]

Depends, also, on the RP you're running. My experience as a GM has been largely restricted to running Naruto RP's at the request of my friends. So, typically, what you will see is that the RP is already 2/3rds full or 1/2nd full before we even start. I [i]know[/i] before hand who is going to be part of the core demographic of my RP and these people are typically given a lot of slack because I know them both as people and as a roleplayer and I wouldn't hang with them if I didn't think they were decent at both of those at the very least. Mostly because, for me, the two are interchangeable (great people are usually great roleplayers and vice versa). 

The last few people that I want or need in the roleplay are going to be randoms and, if I can be entirely honest, when you're making Naruto roleplays you typically attract a certain type of people. I'm not going to pretend that I make my CS's partially to prevent random powerplayers from entering my roleplay because that's entirely why I make them - they're heavy in coding compared to other CS's in casual, and if someone can't copy-paste my CS skeleton even when I post instructions on how to, then that's already a sign they're not up for the task that I've set out for them.

Another one is that, if you can't fill out a 2 paragraph personality section then you're probably not going to be up to the posting standard either. I typically care little for the actual content of the paragraphs and will typically skim it, point out flaws, but I've probably never flat out rejected someone because I didn't like what they wrote (bar like, the few times where you can tell someone didn't read the OOC and their entire story rejects the OOC). 

So, that's probably because I'm biased, but CS's for me are more of a tool to achieve the people I want in my roleplay rather than actually fulfilling the task of a CS, mostly because of the type of RP I run.

[quote=@Fabricant451]Obviously I'm not saying that people should change or shit. I'm weird in my approach to RP characters where I don't like having so much of them on the table at the jump. If it works for you, it works for you and that's cool.

Everyone has different experiences and such, and I obviously don't have extensive GM experience but I do have an anecdote and that is that every RP I've joined with a super long, super strict CS process has wound up dead in the water after like a month. 




Shit.



Maybe I'm the problem. [/quote]

Could also be that most RP's end dead in the water, but that's just [i]my[/i] anecdote and I think the few long-running RP's typically did have stricter processes. Just look at Lady A's RP's. 

But you're right - nobody has to change. You're in charge of joining the RP's that you like and if the CS is a good enough reason not to join then that's entirely your own choice.