Post by Ivy LaShanko on May 10, 2013 16:30:02 GMT -5
lol.
I know it's your opinion and preference. As I said, I see it simply as a difference of assumption tolerances. And you're right, you can spread the details out, and that works for you. But for me, if my character could see the details when they first look at the other characters, I want to read those details in the entry post. Because for me, playing the detail oriented characters I play, sometimes those details do change the way my character reacts. Change how she perceives the other person. Same as in RL, what you notice about someone changes how you see them. But if a player waits until the third round to give me that detail which was in front of her since the begining, then I have to think of a reason why she missed it, when she wouldn't have initially.
I have no hate for short-post players, and most of the time we're equally happy to avoid one another.
Actually.... now that I think about it, I bet there is a correlation between short-posters and not wanting to post preference pages. I'm thinking about the short-post players I've crossed recently and I don't remember any of them having much for them in any context; sexual or posting limit etc.
I may be wrong, but I'm thinking it makes sense in the simple fact that as a short-post player, you can learn someone's preferences via RP fairly quickly because the engagement is done in small increments back and forth. So you cover more proverbial ground than us more detailed RPers. So the detailed RPers tend to post preferences pages because we don't want to put effort (detail) into an RP where it's not going to be returned. So we want to know ahead of time. Short-post players, they want to play and are usually fine finding out incompatibility that way. At least from what I've seen.
Anyone notice otherwise? -is curious-
The problem is, that most people put all of that information in one
post. It does not have to be put all in one post. The picture,
provided everyone is not writing a novel, can be painted over a series
of posts. Like an artist laying oils onto canvas, it is not done all at
once. You prime the canvas, and then layer in the color.
That
however, cannot and will not happen if one has to wait an hour to get a
word in edgewise. By that time I have lost interest, and more times
than not have either fallen asleep, started playing with the dogs,
started browsing for or working on images, or God help us all, World of
Warcraft has garnered my attention. I'm here to have fun, to relax and
unwind. Not be bored to the point of falling asleep, which is what
long posting does to me, every time.
And again, as for the
pages on sexual preference, it's a matter of what you want to project
with such. The overall impression given by such pages is that all the
author of them wants is smut. Now, that isn't meant to say that all who
have such, are in it solely for the cyber play and I think this is
where Laurie took offense. As stated in the editorial, which for the
record, since Laurie seemed to get pissed over the fact that it was
'just my opinion and not fact', an editorial is an opinion piece.
I was not quoting statistics, I was stating my opinion, from my
experiences, gained from where I stand in role play. The majority of
players whom I have seen with such lists I found in the rooms that are
specifically for smut. Hence my opinion on such.
Now as far as
characters go, you can't get much further on the opposite ends of the
spectrum than Alec and Neal. What Neal may find offensive, or at the
least distasteful, Alec would probably find amusing. Do I list the
details of which is which in the profile of either? Not at all. In
Alec's profile, I will admit to having a blurb of pet peeves, and I did
post the editorial on Neal's. Which as I said under Neal, I have been
guilty of these things from time to time. Alec and Neal both have a
smattering of what you will find when looking at them in their profile,
but in so far as their preferences? No. In fact when I tossed Neal
into the OC story line, the question of sexual preference and
orientation I marked as personal, and left it at that. That, in my
opinion, should be found out in play.
It is what we're here for, isn't it?
post. It does not have to be put all in one post. The picture,
provided everyone is not writing a novel, can be painted over a series
of posts. Like an artist laying oils onto canvas, it is not done all at
once. You prime the canvas, and then layer in the color.
That
however, cannot and will not happen if one has to wait an hour to get a
word in edgewise. By that time I have lost interest, and more times
than not have either fallen asleep, started playing with the dogs,
started browsing for or working on images, or God help us all, World of
Warcraft has garnered my attention. I'm here to have fun, to relax and
unwind. Not be bored to the point of falling asleep, which is what
long posting does to me, every time.
And again, as for the
pages on sexual preference, it's a matter of what you want to project
with such. The overall impression given by such pages is that all the
author of them wants is smut. Now, that isn't meant to say that all who
have such, are in it solely for the cyber play and I think this is
where Laurie took offense. As stated in the editorial, which for the
record, since Laurie seemed to get pissed over the fact that it was
'just my opinion and not fact', an editorial is an opinion piece.
I was not quoting statistics, I was stating my opinion, from my
experiences, gained from where I stand in role play. The majority of
players whom I have seen with such lists I found in the rooms that are
specifically for smut. Hence my opinion on such.
Now as far as
characters go, you can't get much further on the opposite ends of the
spectrum than Alec and Neal. What Neal may find offensive, or at the
least distasteful, Alec would probably find amusing. Do I list the
details of which is which in the profile of either? Not at all. In
Alec's profile, I will admit to having a blurb of pet peeves, and I did
post the editorial on Neal's. Which as I said under Neal, I have been
guilty of these things from time to time. Alec and Neal both have a
smattering of what you will find when looking at them in their profile,
but in so far as their preferences? No. In fact when I tossed Neal
into the OC story line, the question of sexual preference and
orientation I marked as personal, and left it at that. That, in my
opinion, should be found out in play.
It is what we're here for, isn't it?
I have no hate for short-post players, and most of the time we're equally happy to avoid one another.
Actually.... now that I think about it, I bet there is a correlation between short-posters and not wanting to post preference pages. I'm thinking about the short-post players I've crossed recently and I don't remember any of them having much for them in any context; sexual or posting limit etc.
I may be wrong, but I'm thinking it makes sense in the simple fact that as a short-post player, you can learn someone's preferences via RP fairly quickly because the engagement is done in small increments back and forth. So you cover more proverbial ground than us more detailed RPers. So the detailed RPers tend to post preferences pages because we don't want to put effort (detail) into an RP where it's not going to be returned. So we want to know ahead of time. Short-post players, they want to play and are usually fine finding out incompatibility that way. At least from what I've seen.
Anyone notice otherwise? -is curious-