[quote=jennifer lost the war]Although I wouldn't go that far, I agree with the stuff you've said prior to that. 1x1 has certainly become something like a meat shop, but I've never visioned the genre to be that way and I think a lot of people feel the same. I would love to do a 1x1 with somebody to essentially write a collaborative story, and while you point out that you would only need 1 other person to agree with you, both the RPers also have much more responsibility and weight on their shoulders in terms of how the story ends up going and being shaped. In that way I wouldn't say the genre is lazy, just the people it seems to attract, since they have such a lazy interpretation of it.[/quote]

I think you're mixing up terms a bit, miscommunication. A [b]genre[/b] is a series of tropes or stereotypes that define a commonly used setting or plot arc. A fantasy story often includes fantastical versions of medieval Europe, for example, or magic. Not all fantasy stories contain these elements, but they share common ones which string them all together in the genre they belong in.

1x1 is not a genre, it's a personal preference. That doesn't make it a lesser thing, it makes it different. 1x1 Draws softcore pornography like flies to a pile of shit because most porn [i]is[/i] one on one, boy meets girl, or if you're into that kind of thing, girl meets flailing array of suspiciously shaped appendages.

Again, this doesn't mean that all 1x1 RP's are porn, this means that the 1x1 section as a whole is more likely to attract that kind of attention, and does.

As for the comment of it being easier to make one other person agree than multiple people, try posting adult content RP's in the advanced section and ask for 8+ players. Watch it burn to a crisp because getting that much attention on one RP would be more than enough to catch the eye of someone who does know the site rules. Plus most of these smut RP's, which are lazy, mind you, because they're not even well written porn (which is the insulting part of it all!), being 1x1, means they only have to wait for their partner to respond, which results in much faster posting cycles versus a group, which for horny teenagers, means a lot, really.

[quote=jennifer lost the war]To be fair, the site acknowledges that they can't control what we do privately, so whenever I see that a 1x1 intends to engage in adult content I assume that the RPer wants to conduct the RP via PM or elsewhere, but maybe I'm giving them too much credit.[/quote]

Even then, it's still very upsetting for people who want to RP 1x1 and [i]not[/i] be bombarded with sleazy, poorly written porn ads. The fact that it's even being advertised is shameful, it really is. If they take it off site I'll at least give credence that they're taking their personal, adult activities away from places where it might harm the site, so that gets my thumbs up... But really? Of all the places to advertise for porn, here?... [i]Really?[/i] There are other sites better equipped to handle adult content than this one, and I'd even link one if it wasn't for the rule about advertisement.