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Oh boy, this looks like a fun RP to jo-

>Bland characters.

>Ridiculous amount of rules.

>Passwords in character sheet.

>Stupid sections in character sheet.

>Interesting concepts brought up in OP either going unexplored, or being poorly explored.

Yeah, no.
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Pretty sure I know exactly the one you're talking about.

Couldn't agree more.
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wheres the grr emoji im tired of you trolling me letsb itch about the trolls on this thread


dude stop trying to damage my right to bitch about bitching about trolls trolling
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Most annoyances are things that the people find faults in. With this one I know the fault is with me, but that makes it even more annoying.

An RP I'd like to join but there are 100 posts, they're all five paragraphs at the minimum, and nobody is remotely interested in giving me a recap either out of laziness or an expectaion for me to catch up myself. I have college. I don't have a free week to marathon all your posts.

Also if there's a well-built world but it's *too* well-built and you're expected to read eleven thousand word essays on the social, economic and political systems of the world you're in, etc.
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@Silver Carrot

Aye I do recaps for mine and it has 260 posts. It's not that hard if they kept track.

Yeah, exaggeration but if it takes several documents. Ooc and reading every one just to understand how it works... Well that's kinda not helpful.

Theres world building. And not needing to onow how the city councilors are elected and how many districts in a city etc. If it matters it can be added in when it comes round via GM posts.
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An RP I'd like to join but there are 100 posts, they're all five paragraphs at the minimum, and nobody is remotely interested in giving me a recap either out of laziness or an expectaion for me to catch up myself. I have college. I don't have a free week to marathon all your posts.


Eh, I'd sort of disagree. I recently asked to join an RP that is well into 200 advanced posts. Before I even asked I made sure to have at least skim read every post so I had an idea where the story is at and who the characters are. I'll be sure to thoroughly read it all before I join too. That's just me, but I want to know the story, I want to see how people write - and I just think it's a massive sign of respect to the work that's already been put in by every individual involved.

It really wouldn't take you too long to catch up and read it.
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If you care about an RP, you will read the preceding posts. Full stop.
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If you care about an RP, you will read the preceding posts. Full stop.


Depends of you have time to read all those posts. 100 long posts is alot to read when they 500 words + that's. 50,000 words, or 5 full college dosertation essays at BA level.
Sometimes q skim read and asking for a quick version and time line of events roughly helps alot to allow easier joining.

Ie a general outline of events, charceters and where it roughly going.
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"Most annoyances are things that the people find faults in. With this one I know the fault is with me, but that makes it even more annoying."

Did you skim my post?
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"Most annoyances are things that the people find faults in. With this one I know the fault is with me, but that makes it even more annoying."

Did you skim my post?


Putting a warning at the start of your post that your bitch is a problem with yourself doesn't make you exempt from criticism.
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Criticism?

I'm sorry, I didn't know I was in the "Let's B!tch. Don't feel this is a healthy, judgement-free release for your roleplay annoyances because it's not 2.0" thread.

Now if somebody wants to bitch about people like me who won't read other's posts and demand a recap, that's fine, that's healthy bitching. But we're not here to judge other people or hold them to account.
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Criticism?

I'm sorry, I didn't know I was in the "Let's B!tch. Don't feel this is a healthy, judgement-free release for your roleplay annoyances because it's not 2.0" thread.


you must be new here
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Putting a warning at the start of your post that your bitch is a problem with yourself doesn't make you exempt from criticism.


But it does look fucking absurd, when it only selectively happens when dozens upon dozens make the same point, without a peep from any opposition. Even worse when the ones pretending to care enough that they have an issue, complain about the exact same things. (and honestly, the thread isn't for, bitching out certain individuals, or to snidely yell at others frustrations.) Not saying you're doing so in this case, just for clarity sake.

@Silver Carrot

Though in your particular case, everyone you responded to didn't make it a personal attack (or even a criticism) against you directly. (I guess unless you include the last sentence from @Stormfly which is a fairly tame statement. That could be encouragement, depending on tone.) @Stormfly just disagreed, and said it would be beneficial to catch up and that it's important to read. As did @Inkarnate. You shared your personal thoughts, but so did they. It wouldn't have mattered if that was a general statement or a personal one. They both just have a more strict opinion when it comes to reading the entire section/thread.

And though I understand your struggle, I also agree that reading everything (should) be important for someone that is participating in the roleplay in almost every circumstance. If it's too much and you still feel like joining more RP's, start some 1x1's or something. (I hope you feel like my response also isn't an attack.) :3
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Most annoyances are things that the people find faults in. With this one I know the fault is with me, but that makes it even more annoying.

An RP I'd like to join but there are 100 posts, they're all five paragraphs at the minimum, and nobody is remotely interested in giving me a recap either out of laziness or an expectaion for me to catch up myself. I have college. I don't have a free week to marathon all your posts.

Also if there's a well-built world but it's *too* well-built and you're expected to read eleven thousand word essays on the social, economic and political systems of the world you're in, etc.


sounds like the solution is to scale down and join a less extensive rp

lol

If you care about an RP, you will read the preceding posts. Full stop.


it's not an objective requirement

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if i join an rp when a new plot arises and i have a good reason to make my character oblivious to previous events i don't need to do jack shit.

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But it does look fucking absurd, when it only selectively happens when dozens upon dozens make the same point, without a peep from any opposition. Even worse when the ones pretending to care enough that they have an issue, complain about the exact same things. (and honestly, the thread isn't for, bitching out certain individuals, or to snidely yell at others frustrations.) Not saying you're doing so in this case, just for clarity sake.


does it look fucking absurd or do you think it looks fucking absurd? i've never seen anyone make the same point either and the fact that you consider there to be an opposition infers that there are 'sides' to this story when there clearly are not
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My new roleplay annoyance is that people don't actually read posts, my heart is breaking right now what is this blasphemy TT^TT

Though in hindsight that explains the inconsistencies in the details...
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It's the ultimate irony in this thread right now that the topic of conversation is not reading posts before joining an rp and the people in this thread right now aren't reading each other's posts properly.
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If you care about an RP, you will read the preceding posts. Full stop.


Generally when I'm interested in a game that's been going for a while, I read back 2-3 pages to get an idea of what's going on and a sense for the characters. Usually after I join said game, curiosity more than anything will prompt me to read the whole RP when it's slow going.

Like when I joined Fruits of Contention, I was starting in the second story arc. I didn't read the first one (about 6 pages of content), just the OOC info, character sheets, and a few posts back to get a sense of the game. Considering I ended up as one of the most active players/ coGM, I'd say I did okay.

In regards to the summary thing, I am going to start recording them on the 0th IC post for prospective players.
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does it look fucking absurd or do you think it looks fucking absurd? i've never seen anyone make the same point either and the fact that you consider there to be an opposition infers that there are 'sides' to this story when there clearly are not


Do you even have the slightest clue of what the statement referred to? If you don't, you wasted my time and yours writing that.

Edit: Phone's autocorrect. The bane of writers everywhere.
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