I agree with all of this with regards to activity. I'm so tired of seeing players hiatus around AC, idle out just to reapp, or take a pass or whatever the game's equivalent is. If you join a game, you should be playing in the game. If you're not playing, leave. You're just screwing over your castmates/CR by being an inactive presence that the other players have to make excuses for as to why their characters aren't interacting with yours when they should be.
What I don't agree with 100% is about tagging outside of the people you're comfortable with. In a game, you should be tagging around. I agree with that. I dislike cliques as much as the next person and do agree that people need to be more open about their tagging practices.
However, I personally don't want to tag people who consistently give me ECATs quality tags. On network spam, when it's two characters talking, that's fine. No one needs an assload of bracketed introspection for an audio/video call. But in logs, I want decent tags and I'm only going to want to tag people who actually put forth effort and give me more than one or two lines. This goes doubly for smut. If you're the kind of player who writes something like Yes, more. [He lays back, panting.] I'm not going to thread out smut with you. My writing style is not the least bit compatible with that and I don't want to waste the time I have to rp with a thread I'm not going to have fun writing.
I think overall, people need to be more mindful of the tagging styles of the people they're tagging with. If you prefer the ECATs method, don't expect the more introspective taggers to want to thread logs with you. And if you're a tagger who writes paragraphs for each tag, realize that you might put off or otherwise overwhelm the players who write significantly smaller tags. This might help alleviate some of the cliquishness in games.
I know everyone wants to get tags from the players and characters they like, and that not getting them, or not getting them as fast, might seem like the player is cliquish. And maybe they are. But maybe they're not. Maybe their tagging style just doesn't gel with yours and it's not that they hate you or your character.
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What I don't agree with 100% is about tagging outside of the people you're comfortable with. In a game, you should be tagging around. I agree with that. I dislike cliques as much as the next person and do agree that people need to be more open about their tagging practices.
However, I personally don't want to tag people who consistently give me ECATs quality tags. On network spam, when it's two characters talking, that's fine. No one needs an assload of bracketed introspection for an audio/video call. But in logs, I want decent tags and I'm only going to want to tag people who actually put forth effort and give me more than one or two lines. This goes doubly for smut. If you're the kind of player who writes something like Yes, more. [He lays back, panting.] I'm not going to thread out smut with you. My writing style is not the least bit compatible with that and I don't want to waste the time I have to rp with a thread I'm not going to have fun writing.
I think overall, people need to be more mindful of the tagging styles of the people they're tagging with. If you prefer the ECATs method, don't expect the more introspective taggers to want to thread logs with you. And if you're a tagger who writes paragraphs for each tag, realize that you might put off or otherwise overwhelm the players who write significantly smaller tags. This might help alleviate some of the cliquishness in games.
I know everyone wants to get tags from the players and characters they like, and that not getting them, or not getting them as fast, might seem like the player is cliquish. And maybe they are. But maybe they're not. Maybe their tagging style just doesn't gel with yours and it's not that they hate you or your character.