In answer to the community question I have roleplayed before the site though if you can call what I did roleplay was rather poor. My first set of experience was a dumb 'faction war' style roleplay on youtube. I was thirteen at the time and made quite a few enemies but in my defense the only thing I had done before was rpg bioware games like KOTOR. The mods were ok people but there were some assholes. I myself include myself as one but I once again plea that I as out of my element, and no one actually gave me a real 'this is how you roleplay' sort of deal so I sunk, and swam my way through. While I won't got into the specifics I eventually left, and joined that specific roleplay about four times roughly. In the end i am still of the opinion that it was poorly handled, unfriendly to new players, and heavily biased. The battle system, if what you can call that clutter as a system, was handled entirely through quick posts on chatrooms. 

It was awful. I may have contributed to that in my own way but that is the past, and I'll leave it where it should be. I have had no contact since I last left the group and I think at this point that is for the best as that was an uncomfortable part of my life I'd rather leave behind.

After, and during my switches from that roleplay I also joined a star wars roleplay which was handled fairly well by the mods. But the players...they were also shitty people we all god modded, and bull shitted our way through a 'faction' oriented system like the Jedi Order, Empire, Yuuzhan Vong, and other factions people never heard of like the corporate sector, who was headed by a guy who made everything about the soviet union and at one point even threatened to kill me in a real life which scared me as a young growing up adolescent kid. The roleplay spluttered, and flailed around in a poor excuse of life until dying roughly around 2013 or so. The real life politics brought up were stupid, and no one actually knew what was happening in battles as details were vague in a post by post system. By the time that was done with it was dying, and despite my own ideas, and efforts in trying to help keep it afloat like sectioning off the few remaining factions into specific systems. It died a sad slow death. I am still subbed to the head mod on youtube though he hardly makes content anymore. He was a really cool guy who handled all the bullshit really well from my recollection but even he had his fair share of bs when it came to the empire's redundant amount of super weapons.

And then I came here not sure what expecting I had to learn a whole new style of roleplay. I fell in with a group on casual that now largely doesn't exist from a fairy tail to a naruto setting and the god modding by the gms were pretty shitty. I was not, and still am, not a very good gm but I still don't make blatantly overpowered characters for the setting I base myself in like some of the people in that group tended to do. Though I did at the start do something like that because, as I said, I lacked true roleplaying experience, and as I'm sure you can tell by reading I didn't exactly have the best roleplaying background up until that point. 

I went from casual to free for a bit where I actually FINISHED A ROLEPLAY, though that was less the gm and me forcing the group through the mud in some bull shit convoluted plot that somehow worked.  It ended rather abruptly on a cliff hanger and the rp follow up on my shoulders died. I then went to casual, and sometimes to advance where I lurk today.

That's pretty much my story i'd say if I never clicked on that join button in want of an actual rp experience I'd still be a shitty roleplayer. I'd have no idea where I'd be exactly now if I didn't join but that's something alternative timeline vance can deal with.