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253: abandon me harder daddy

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ime a lot of the time people who write shorter tags are better rpers in terms of actually roleplaying and keeping threads moving along because they know how to get a tag to the point and give hooks.

its kind of telling when theres 300 comments under that ones toplevel when everything else on that page has like, 20. heavy introspection and long-winded tags are good but everything has a time and place. people like to act like your average rp isn't usually under a paragraph of detail in any case, if they're a good player who actually plays instead of just talking about what happens next

my hot take is people who write in third-person novel prose are way bigger freaks in dwrp than ecats-ers anyway

+1

idk about anyone else but i'm here to roleplay, which means actually playing things out. give me an ecats-er who will actually finish threads over someone who writes multiple paragraphs and takes forever to tag back any day.

+1 ecats players actually finish threads and i love them for it. i'm a longer tagger and they never care that i am and just make it easy to start, play, and finish things.

yeah we all know that the more comments your threads have, the better you are

quantity, baby

it does in fact mean that people are choosing to reply to them more often

so maybe they are having more fun

considering more people are tagging them repeatedly

didn't say they're not having fun, but it's not "telling" of anything other than boomerang speed that they have 300 comments versus however many other comments.

some of their tags are only a sentence. one single sentence. i would hope that'd get quicker, boomerang play and more total tags than something longer because there's not much to each tag.

and fwiw, they had 6 tag-ins. that's pretty average looking at the amount of tag-ins most top levels across the tdm have received.

I think anon is saying that despite the short tags, the player and threads are engaging enough that their partners are willing to deal with it. Even boomerang players don't keep tagging if they aren't enjoying themselves.

Quick glance at the offending thread and i do feel a decent voice off this character. Sometimes that's all you need.

im the anon ayrt is referring to and yes thats exactly what I meant

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

Got it.

[crawling out the hot tub he cannot keep doing this halp]

Half their tags aren't even full sentences.

The first two technically are full statements, just short and curt. The last is not, but is a readable action nonetheless.

I get that it's not to everyone's taste and that's fine, but it looks like some can play off this style and enjoy doing so. I'd just avoid them if they get in, no harm no foul.

yeah but

you know

third-person ""novel"" rpers are the weirdos compared to this, apparently

where did anyone say that

someone said the players were 'enabling' the ecats tags and people are pointing out that it is not enabling, they are enjoying them

some people enjoy long tags, some people are cool with these, and both are long-standing styles of rp

no one's dissing longform rp

"my hot take is people who write in third-person novel prose are way bigger freaks in dwrp than ecats-ers anyway"

i wasnt counting obvious bait but ok one person thinks its weird sure

nayrt but hey that was me.

i consider it weird is because if i wanted third-person narrative writing i would just, you know, write. dwrp isn't really a "writing" hobby to me the way people like to talk about it here. writing is involved sure but the focus on my end is more engaging with my partners in what is essentially just improv situations. this is a collaborative roleplay hobby so i'm here to play off of other people in a back-and-forth dialog more than anything. third person novel narration is for forums and fanfic, but I have to assume a handful of these (newer) folks came from tumblr or something.

obviously people can do whatever they want and i'm not really here to judge them for it. i just think it's weird and it's out of place in a way commentspam isn't when most of everyone else is doing action tags/brackets type standard to journal rp.

yes, neither style is "wrong", it is all about preference and if someone is playing one way it's because they're enjoying themselves, which is the point of this hobby at the end of the day. but there is an obvious mismatch in rp culture here. tbh i was confused why other anons even started arguing about ecats vs. longform (except not really... making any reason to argue ig). i read the "enabling" and "shame" -ing comments as "why is no one informing them they're creating samples that won't look good on their app". check gp's applications page and scroll to the guidelines on samples

maybe i'm the one who misread those anons' intent. i would disagree with the sentiment anyway; it isn't anyone else's responsibility but a prospective player themselves to read up on the game they want to join. it's also completely possible they have samples ready from somewhere else that aren't in ecats style so all this doesn't even matter

if it's a known thing that these mods aren't strict then nvm

if that's what they meant by 'enabling', then I definitely misread the sentiment, but that's because i already jumped to the 'it's not their responsibility' conclusion tbh.

bc this is wg and not rpa to say "shame on them" sounds like the problem is with bothering to tag them back imo but maybe that's me being negative

that is almost certainly what the og anon meant especially fresh off of the rpa thread clearly looking to bitch about the player in question.

thinking "shame on them for enabling that" to mean anything but "shame on the taggers for letting this person continue to thread in a way that doesn't conform to everyone else here" is kind of wild tbh

idk why we need to pick either extreme as the supposed "better" way of rping. i wouldn't write third person novel prose because i'm a brackets rper through and through, but i've also totally lost motivation and interest in replying to a thread due to how lacking in any meaningful detail the other person's tag was. i would rather they take a little longer and put in a little effort than reply instantly just so we can feel good about a number

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