Membership A roleplayers peeve moments

[Anonymous 234]

My biggest peeve right now is dealing with a severely inactive member. They haven't made an rp post in months but have been on the board ooc just to complain about the most random things.

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[Shades 676]

Oh, boy, so many:

 

- We don't have a word count, but... - Nope. You either do or you don't. If you do, it's fine, and I may even join your site if I like it enough. Just be honest about it.

 

- Vague trigger warning requirements. Okay, I'll get this out of the way and say that I do not and will not ever enforce mandatory trigger warnings on my sites. Whatever, feel free to think I'm shitty. I allow people to use them, if they so choose, but I will never force anyone to. But if you have them, ffs, be clear. Don't post "add a TW to any possibly triggering content". EVERYTHING is possibly triggering content, depending on how you slice it. Basically, what I mean is that if I see a rule stating clearly "Add a TW to threads containing abuse, rape, depictions of mental illness, etc etc", I'm slightly more likely to join.

 

- Being allowed only one character upon joining the site and having to have a ridiculous amount of posts before you can make a second one. Sorry, but 20 posts is too much if all  you have is that one character who, you know, can flop and you can never even reach 10 posts because people won't plot with you.

 

-  Promising to post on a specific date and never doing it, over and over. I'm super patient, but if you (general) keep constantly messaging me to tell me that you're almost done and you'll post for me today... and after two weeks I have gotten nothing but repeated messages saying you'll definitely post in a couple hours... just don't bother.

 

- Double standards when it comes to posting speed. I'm a slow poster. Everyone who writes with me knows that. Some/most are slow posters too. That's cool. But don't keep me waiting for weeks and then turn around and demand a reply right away. It just doesn't work that way, son.

 

- People who throw fits about anything related to a roleplay. Dude, be an adult, use your words, and don't act like a child? If you're not happy about anything, talk to me, or drop the roleplay. But don't act like a freaking toddler who lost their favorite toy. I have no patience for children, and even less for adults who revert to a mental age of four when things don't go their way.

[Anonymous 234]

When a poorly conceived/written character latches on to yours in a chat-style rp, gives you a lot of confusing one-liners, tries to flirt (when your character is taken/don't do ships with that character) and they continue to try to rp in character even after you've nudged them gently towards reading a set of guidelines you have to stop frustrating interactions occurring in the first place. You wonder if they even bothered to read the guidelines but if people don't take them on board, then I have every right to unfollow/block/mute.

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[Anonymous 234]

21 hours ago, Shades said:

- People who throw fits about anything related to a roleplay. Dude, be an adult, use your words, and don't act like a child? If you're not happy about anything, talk to me, or drop the roleplay. But don't act like a freaking toddler who lost their favorite toy. I have no patience for children, and even less for adults who revert to a mental age of four when things don't go their way.

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[nyx 164]

It's always the most inactive rper on the board that loves to pop up and complain about the smallest thing before they poof all over again. Or and my personal favorite, saying how bored they are when there are people posting in the open thread topic looking for others to join in. -.-

[Rune 1,099]

49 minutes ago, wicked said:

It's always the most inactive rper on the board that loves to pop up and complain about the smallest thing before they poof all over again. Or and my personal favorite, saying how bored they are when there are people posting in the open thread topic looking for others to join in. -.-

Couple this with them talking about how badly they need to work on posts... But never do.

[Death Kitten 200]

18 minutes ago, Rune said:

Couple this with them talking about how badly they need to work on posts... But never do.

OMFSM, I had someone join my site and literally just idle in the chat for a month, continuously making excuses and talking about how they needed to make their first post. I'm just like, dude, just do it. We'll even help you out if you want. But nope. I don't remember if I just deactivated their account on the site without saying anything to see if they noticed, or if they finally said they were just too intimidated by our writing to even try and participate. >.<

[Dusty 55]

Players joining your site to get your members to join their own site >.<

[Rune 1,099]

12 minutes ago, Dusty said:

Players joining your site to get your members to join their own site >.<

We had someone we were affiliated with, in a completely different genre, show up and talk trash about our forum and advertise theirs.

 

The result was hilarious because there was a collective pause, followed by one lone member going "What?" 

 

Then the patient explanation that we weren't even the same genre of site and that maybe they were an idiot.

[Death Kitten 200]

Just now, Rune said:

We had someone we were affiliated with, in a completely different genre, show up and talk trash about our forum and advertise theirs.

 

The result was hilarious because there was a collective pause, followed by one lone member going "What?" 

 

Then the patient explanation that we weren't even the same genre of site and that maybe they were an idiot.

I SAID I WAS SORRY!

[Shades 676]

The "magical pregnancy".

 

No, not a pregnancy in which everything is beautiful and perfect and morning sickness and stretch marks don't happen, lol. I can kind of live with that.

 

But the pregnancy that should fix everything.

 

Characters' relationship is on the rocks? A baby will fix it.

Characters have money issues? Preggo!

Significant other has someone else? A baby will force them to stay!

Character is a womanizer? Well, a pregnancy will make him marry your character.

Your character isn't getting as much attention as you think she should? Oops, pregnant! Now everyone needs to coddle her!

 

Just don't, please? I say this as someone who loves pregnancy plots with a passion, and has a lot of fun with them. But no, man, pregnancy doesn't fix everything. And it can definitely make many bad situations worse (which I love, because I live for the drama).

 

By all means, I don't care if characters breed like rabbits, but let's not pretend a baby is a magical fix, because it usually isn't.

[Elena 546]

Topsites with "ratings" - ie places where people recommend your site... or tell the biggest lies about it

[Deep Sea 326]

Me: "Make these few tiny revisions to your character, and you'll be all set!"

Them: *radio silence for three weeks*

Them, in another thread: "I hate GMs who never respond to you. If you don't want me in your RP, just say so!"

Me: *iNTERNAL SCREAMING*

[Gothic 307]

52 minutes ago, Elena said:

Topsites with "ratings" - ie places where people recommend your site... or tell the biggest lies about it

 

I've had this happen, too.

[Taako 5]

Lemme tell you, I've had an admin in the span of like a literal day that I was absent, completely delete every post and profile, and shift the forum into an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT GENRE, it went from a fairly active forum, to something totally different. And to be honest I would have been super okay with this, had any of the members gotten ANY kind of warning that this was going to happen so they could save their stuff. I mean I kept in touch with people consistently and no one saw this coming, I had 50+ really deep and important to me RPs on there, several characters, and when I came back literally everything was just GONE.

 

So I think my pet peeve over everything else is unreliable admins, or admins that are unpredictable and impulsive in that sort of way. I get that sometimes you just don't have the energy to continue a site, or sometimes you end up falling out of love with the plot or genre and want something new, but you need to communicate this with your members, rather than just up and remove every trace of their hard work without care or warning. That's a slap in the face to the people who gave you their time and energy to RP there.