[quote=@ArenaSnow] Color coded dialogue. Tried it once. Waste of time. Read my content and you will see the words just fine. It doesn't make it any easier for me to read, and I consider muddling through the color tags to be an inconvenience - thus, not worthwhile. Only thing color codes do with me is occasionally fuck with my vision because people can't consider what dark ___ does on various screens. [/quote] ... the man with the grey signature said. [quote=@SleepingSilence]Stop taking unpersonal things personal...(and a more personal and rhetorical question. Do you separate a hundred times because you think it's good writing structure?)[/quote] I'm not taking anything personal - I just think you are an idiot, with idiot arguments, and I carefully explained why I think they are idiot arguments, so that you may understand and counter, yet here we are, and you have failed to even understand me. I separate because you make a thousand and one unrelated points and then answer your own questions. [quote=@SleepingSilence]1. It's strange to deny the reality of people having too many rules when you yourself admit to putting 24 of them in a 1x1 section, on purpose to be selective...[/quote] No, 12 do's and don'ts, not 12 do's and 12 don'ts. More over I don't think having 12 rules in total is too many. That's subjective. So, riddle me this - are you imposing your view of what is 'too much' or whether or not 'being selective' is bad? Maybe both? Regardless that is not the point - the point is you are fundamentally misunderstanding [i]why[/i] people make these rules. Whether it is to weed out people, to give some rule redundancy, whether to remind people of RPG's standard rules, or to just give them something to point at when removing someone from an RP/blocking their application. Whichever combination of those it is, I can guarantee you people do not write rules because 'hehe everyone do it so if i do im cool and ppl think amma serious :)' like you proposed. [quote=@SleepingSilence]But I would happily PM you many examples of roleplays that have unnecessarily long rule sets. But not on the thread itself to spread drama, because that's never my intention. I also sadly don't fully trust you not to try to stir up trouble if I did provide examples. You don't have to take my word for it, maybe just look through the forum yourself when you have the time.[/quote] No, I clearly do not share your idea of what are too many rules therefore I could never 'look for it myself' - I am asking [i]you[/i] to show me what [i]you[/i] think are RP's that have 'too many rules.' Do it in PM or here, I couldn't care less. In return I'll ask those people why they made as many rules as they did. If your above argument is anything to go by, the answer will surprise you. [quote=@SleepingSilence]2. It wasn't complaining. It was relevant to things I only see this forum do and do more frequently because of the intent to copy others. My point was I'm specifically not demonizing people for doing what they feel like. If you had nothing to add, you didn't need to reply to it.[/quote] No, no. There [i]is[/i] no cultural bandwagon. There is only people doing things, and people looking and it and copying it. I'm saying [i]you[/i] don't have to do it. It's an option - a choice - a decision. You deciding to do something is about as relevant to the discussion as me deciding to take a poop in the morning - I either do it or don't. But whatever I pick, it's my own responsibility to choose. Just like it's yours - and just as it's the GM's to include rules. [quote=@SleepingSilence]3. I'd say I appreciate the consistency, but you were just talking about a single password being too much of a hurdle. But I agree you have the right do it and have nobody join as a result. ([s]also why are you using periods for numbers? Never mind, it's not important.[/s])[/quote] It is not a hurdle, I never called it a hurdle. I called it a loop - it's something for me to jump through, not over. The difference to me is that a hurdle is something I need to overcome where as a password isn't some sort of challenge, it's a poor man's hurdle. It's just a trick I need to do to show the GM I can read rules. I don't really enjoy that kind of things for reasons I explained rather precisely before. Either you are not reading, or passively ignoring what I write. And I use periods instead of comma's because that's something that is different between the USA and the Netherlands. [quote=@SleepingSilence]4. Semantics, but I didn't ask the same question in that case. You jumped ahead of my question with a more broad answer that happened to fill the next questions.[/quote] No, you did ask that same question - you just rephrased it to be a different case. The essence is the same. Is the answer supposed to change when you exchange 'quiz' for '10.000 word essay'? [quote=@SleepingSilence]5. I agree that the idea isn't a good one. Though thanks for adding that (stupid/idiot) part again. But the question never was [b]can[/b] they. It was [b]should[/b] they? Hopefully you notice the difference. <.<[/quote] That much wasn't clear from your post but the answer still doesn't change because I didn't say 'can' they, I said they should do whatever the fuck they feel like and bear the consequences there of. Bitching about hidden passwords is all fine and well but ultimately it's the GM's decision. And I am saying now the GM [i]should[/i] do whatever the fuck they want to ensure that the people who join their RP pass [i]their[/i] little exam that is supposed to show that these RPers are proper little good bois. That the design of a password-test is ultimately very unproductive and stupid is one thing but for that you'd have to ask another question entirely. [quote=@SleepingSilence]6. See #5. And also, because you can't be respectful, I warned you already and you still wish to be personal. You're goddamn thick, if you couldn't tell I was speaking hypothetically and childish as fuck for persisting with this shitty attitude you keep presenting. Grow up. 7. See #6. Last sentence. >Note to self: Read whole post before replying, so you stop acting respectively halfway through only to see the rest and go..."oh..."[/quote] Consider doing; [quote](and a more personal and rhetorical question. Do you separate a hundred times because you think it's good writing structure?)[/quote] not because it is good writing structure but because I can't figure out what the fuck you're trying to respond to telling me to grow up.