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  1. I have a love-hate sort of relationship with them. It's difficult for me to write them, and I've found a lot of people don't write opens in a very inviting way. They inadvertently tend to put the onus on the responder to get the two interacting and to decide how they meet and all of that. Even worse is when you also have a writer that's a very internal type of writer. What I mean by that is that they focus on internal monologue, feelings, and reflection, which isn't in itself a bad thing but can be very difficult to respond to; worse when the thread's an open. I will jump into them when I see that they've been sitting a long time. In my experience, it depends on the community how open threads are received and treated, but more and more communities I've seen don't utilise them much, if at all. I purposely fostered one of mine by setting numerous examples to at least answer them at some point, and for the most part the members follow through with this. Unfortunately life is life and 2020 was 2020, so a lot of them sat for longer than members were willing to wait. So, all that to say, I think the issue with open threads are two-fold; communities not knowing how to use them, and writers not knowing how to write them invitingly. I've also run into players that want what they want and have no interest in anything else that may also be fun to explore because it isn't what they want. I've watched players outright sabotage themselves because they were too focused on the plot they thought they wanted they completely missed every opportunity for the plots they could have. So that could be a contributing factor, too. Some in the roleplaying community can be awfully self-centred and short-sighted, and unfortunately I think self-centred behaviour in the RP community can function like a disease and spread. It's hard to care when others make it clear they don't.
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