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Mahz's Dev Journal

There's a lot more going on here than simple post length; that is one piece of several.

@Etcetera

That really isn't true.

For roleplaying involving one-liners, few-liners, speed-posting,

"One-liners, few-liners, and speed-posting" are all referring to the same thing, @Etcetera. If your roleplay has really small IC posts, it's meant to be posted in Free. The only other distinct part of the description of the section is, "and for anyone who doesn't want to have to worry about standards"—which you don't need to be upset over because GMs can have their own standards for what application does and does not get accepted.

The primary distinguishing factor of the three sections is post length, full stop. Advanced RPs have more in-depth plots, character development and extensive settings simply because there is more room to establish all of that when posts have more content. Roleplays with IC sections that consist of one liners definitely do not belong in Advanced and are most fitting of all in Free. That they exist in Casual is tenuous, but I guess if half of Casual is going to call itself "High Casual", there can be a Low Casual too.

Mahz's Dev Journal

The description for the Casual Roleplay section specifies that posts should be a paragraph or two. The description for the Free Roleplay section specifies that posts can be one-liners. If your roleplay's IC section is mostly one-liners, it belongs in Free and not in Casual. This is a super fucking easy concept.

Mahz's Dev Journal

The question is whether we want criteria to be enforced at all. I personally prefer not, and letting people use their common sense as a guiding tool. But that would be easier if the current descriptors weren't so vague. As mentioned before, a single RP can apparently fit criteria for all the sections (allegedly because I honestly doubt it can) and thus that signals that the descriptions are poor.

@Odin

The current descriptions aren't vague. Some people just choose to deliberately misinterpret them, either because of their aforementioned inferiority complexes or because they don't like the personalities/writing ability/low expectations of the people that apply for their roleplays if they are posted in the Free section. The logical response to this isn't to bump the roleplay up to Casual (or—god forbid—Advanced), but to tell the people who apply for their one-liner RPs and who are not the type of roleplayer they are looking for to go find another RP to join.

It is totally theoretically possible to have a really high concept roleplay with IC posts that don't quite break the 100 character count, but that doesn't magically transmogrify it into a Casual RP.

Mahz's Dev Journal

With the previous talk of implied hierarchies, I wanted to preface what I have to say with a simple statement of fact: "Advanced elitism" doesn't actually exist. Nobody gives a fuck. All of the Free roleplayers have inferiority complexes, not the other way around.

Onto what I actually wanted to say; if you're upset that your one-liner RP is being relegated to the Free section, cry about it. It belongs in the Free section. If your one-liner RP isn't being relegated to the Free section, that's unfortunate, because it belongs there. Any current problems with roleplays being located in the wrong section is due to the section's criteria not being actively enforced, and has nothing to do with any flaw in how the sections themselves are divided.

Roleplay here if you enjoy writing at least a paragraph or two, character development, and some depth. Grammar and spelling are encouraged. Generally one paragraph (a few sentences) per post.

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Banned for hypocrisy (again); you have also banned me twice (2) in a row.

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Banned for hypocrisy; you have all of the same amounts of all of those body parts.

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Banner for being so happy about having a katana through your skull.

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