Allow me to quote my status bar reply,[quote]Jared, it would be best if you addressed the matter in the threads in question, as there is zero certainty for people in your roleplays to see a status about it.[/quote]

Different roleplays have different standards, yes. The most prevalent standard on RPG is to submit characters by OOC first, and then place them into the Char tab upon being accepted. This allows a GM to easily say 'yes', 'no' or 'fix it' before saying 'no' and 'fix it' when the character is already in the tab even if the GM doesn't want that character there yet or ever. Char is indeed a database. On the guild, it is very, very common for it to be a database of what [i]will[/i] be, not what everyone thinks should be in there, which may run totally contradictory to what the GM wants, forming the primary reason why GMs usually like characters to be posted OOC first. Another way is indeed uncommon, and that's probably why in your games people are prone to missing that.

Your style is fine, but complaining about it here and in the status bar achieves absolutely nothing. It is a standard you must create and enforce in the first post of your roleplays, at which point, it is the fault of the player to do it wrong. However, a massive portion of the guild cannot and will not be held accountable to posts made outside of the roleplays. They don't know/care about your statuses, and a huge portion of the guild I am certain never even looks in this forum. If you already do this and are venting, then I can certainly understand frustration at the common lack of reading comprehension, but it will still achieve nothing because your standards are actually in the minority. Your thread, your rules; it is up to you to create and enforce them, and if people are jackasses, then it is your power to boot them or bring in staff if they don't bother to leave.

I can't say much more about how to go about it unless there's a practical example of what's going on posted here.