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DELETED9742nautilusmp said
Then what about those posts in advanced section that goes ten pages or even more? How would you call it? I guess standards have inflated, haven't they?
They really have. It all has to do with stereotypes, actually. Because truthfully, having played in Advanced, most posts really aren't the epic length that many people assume Advanced consists of. In fact, the only real site-set standards for Advanced are "at least two paragraphs", whereas Casual is "at least one paragraph", and Free is, as we all know, without any standards.
So really, most of Casual fits right in with Advanced, but they don't go in, because they assume Advanced is a lot stricter than it actually is. That's pretty much the only reason why "High Casual" exists, actually, since most High Casual standards are really just the same standards as Advanced, but people don't realize that, because the stereotypes about Advanced are far more perpetuated than the 'canon' standards.
In fact, all this is pretty much why Casual is the biggest and most-used roleplaying section on the entire site. Advanced is usually perceived as being full of lengthy posts and Grammar Nazis, while Free is stereotyped as being completely chatspeak and kids who can't read (and I've played in Free as well; there are actually some pretty good RP's if you look a little more closely). Therefore, since Casual is the site's "middle ground", the majority of RPers will go there just because the only alternatives are thought of as the extreme ends of the spectrum, thus inflating Casual far beyond what it was meant to be so that it has the widest range of post lengths between RP's for the entire section.
But hey, that's not all bad. Being someone who truthfully hardly cares about post lengths at all and willing to play in any section, I at least know where to best advertise my own RP's. ;)
