*hesitantly wiggles in to leave my two cents*

For [i]me[/i] personally (and I can only speak from the PoV of the three 'main' categories, I've never ventured into Arena, Nation or the new Persistent/open world topics as I find the concepts behind them too confusing for me to grasp. But hey, if you enjoy them, more power to ya!) That's my only bugbear with Arena/Nation/Blah blah. So. Many. Confusing. Rules. Maybe if it was a little easier to understand (a simple guide for a simpleton like me RIP) all the rules I would've considered giving it a bash but as it is, those subforums and their unfamiliar rules and guidelines terrify me and I'm more likely to scream and run for the hills than ever be brave enough to give it a go at this stage :lol

I know the post length parameters are meant to be a guide, but I myself find them rather...arbitrary, to say the least. I could care less how [i]much[/i] my potential partners write per post, I'm more concerned with the [i]content[/i] of said posts, and my own focus when I make my posts is to adhere to that same rule. Character development and world building is FAR more important to me than how many words are written.

For all intents and purposes I consider myself to be an Advanced roleplayer. I've been role-playing on Internet forums for 12 years now, I'm a wrinkly old fart who's honestly got a bit of an addiction to creating characters and worlds and then destroying their lives while I cackle evilly and drink tea (and then cry about how mean it was later!), I can't engage an RP where there isn't some sort of in depth world/Lore building, because how can characters exist without their accompanying Lore? (again, this is [i]my opinion[/i], if yours differs, good for you! I'd be interested to hear it in a civilised conversation)

Does that mean I ALWAYS crank out 2k+ word posts? Most certainly not! I've had to drop partners before, who despite me nicely asking them to further elaborate and give me something to work with, continued to give me posts which were 3-4 paragraphs of their character internally monologuing about themselves while glaring at a rock (because of course, all my characters are mind readers *slow clap*? FYI my character was not and it just ended up being a disaster that I had to quit lol)
I've also had several long-term RP partners who I have happily received 1-2 sentence posts from at times, and I've been gladly able to respond. Fluffing a post up on occasion is fine, but if someone else can give me more to work with in 2 sentences than the metaphorical you can in 4 paragraphs, I'm going to raise my eyebrows at you and wonder if you understand the difference between writing a novel/fanfic and role-playing ¬¬

Some of my favourite/best RPs come from simply enjoying the story we create together rather than specifically worrying about word count. 

I was going to write something else but now I've lost my train of thought.

TL;DR : Basing your judgement of an RP/writer SOLELY on how many words they can write per post is dumb. I find word count restrictions even more ridiculous. Vive la character development. Can I have a cookie on my way out?