Candelabra — Roleplayer Guild

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I feel like there's a lot of assumptions and misinterpretations in what you're saying here. To address your first point——yeah? But I'd say that there's a pretty universal standard for good writing that will obviously be evident. George R.R. Martin is 99.9 percent of the time going to be considered better than a 10 year old writing their first fanfic. Sure, a very small amount of people are going to think that the kid is better than the published author, but whenever we say "good" writing it should be obvious that we're looking at the consensus formed by the most knowledgeable consumers and skilled authors. Doesn't the fact that you're saying that writing is "actually fanfic tier" instead of "god-tier awesome" show that you have a clear standard for what is good and what is bad writing? I know that this connects to your subjectivity point in a way. Thing is, it shows that there's obviously a clear consensus of what quality looks like and that most writers typically want to head towards that point. 

Second, I already said that I don't have an issue with the idea of writing long posts in the OP, which is how a lot of people took it despite me saying the exact opposite in the thread starter. The issue is not the quantity of a singular post being long, nor did I ever say that posts should ALWAYS be short. Rather, I was saying that to constantly have long posts is inevitably going to have a detrimental effect on quality because there will inevitably be little of substance to say when lengthy posts are written every time regardless of context or how much it contributes to narrative and characters. Quantity can mean that there is a lot of information. What it does not necessarily mean is that all of that information isn't redundant or insignificant as to draw out the post count while contributing very little to the play as a whole.

I can't tell if you actually mean me in your third point, but I made it clear that I didn't always want short posts. This connects to my other point, though. As people get more involved in a hobby, they will usually cultivate a desire to improve their craft. Not all the time, duh, and the people who are fine without changing things up should not be looked down upon. However, more often than not people will want to improve and as they do so what they have fun reading and writing will be subject to change. Even if roleplaying isn't about being good, you can't act like that isn't a huge factor in it. 

And you already said that your last point is subjective so I won't dwell on it for too long. I will say that I find the exact opposite to be true. When a person writes quantity is not quality, I find that they're more to the point. If you feel the need to write more because you're in an environment that links that particular skill to having higher quality, then you are way, way more likely to repeat what the other person said as a way to get more words in. Frankly, however, the issue with both purple prose and rehashes are that they give remarkably little for the other person to respond to. I named the thread "Quantity is not Quality," yes, but the main point of contention is how there is little value in a lot of cases where people feel the need to write an exorbitant amount——not in all cases.

I feel like in a lot of areas you were responding to what you'd assume a person making the quantity is not quality argument would say as opposed to what I was actually pinpointing.
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