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[@Grim] If I can be very smug about my own writing for just a second. I personally love how that sentence can apply to anyone (including myself) and isn't a direct attack/comment. While perfectly encapsulating how useless a critique it is. Because not only is it crossed out, which means I agree it wasn't worth keeping. Playfully acknowledging its own ridiculousness. But it really does add to the humor because I can't be called out on it because I've been directly called the hypocrite by several people including people in charge. (which is fair is fair because most human beings are hypocrites) So my comments not only playful, less direct, it's also pointing out the fact that judging people, for simply mentioning people make mistakes (and maybe should improve upon them.) is somehow inherently wrong because you make mistakes is pretty ridiculous, if you're just going to do it yourself in the very next comment you make.[/quote]

That has zero relevance in the current topic at hand. Instead of keeping it there, you probably should've just removed it if you considered it to be so ridiculous.

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Sorry, I'm usually so critical of my own writing that sometimes you need to give yourself some praise.
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I agree.

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I basically agree that you can have personal preferences and maybe if there are particular things on a character sheet like your characters world or philosophy you can start getting into some prose. And even though I'm not big into sample posts I can see why they might be used. ( maybe the sample post can be just the first post you plan on using that just requires mod acceptance for example.)
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Yeah. Even if there is a universal 'standard' as to what fields should be on a CS, the ones I've seen that go against said standard are pretty interesting and somewhat more enjoyable to write. At the end of the day, it is all just a matter of opinion, and I'm of the opinion that both history and personality are tedious and they can be much better represented in other forms. Sample posts are quite useful, maybe even more useful than some might think; it discourages flakers. If part of a roleplay's application requires somebody to write a post, there's less chance for people to submit a character and never post, because you've already weeded out the people who spend all their inspiration on a character and give up when it comes to actually posting.