Death Kitten 200 Share Posted December 28, 2017 1 hour ago, Uaithne said: I don't like thin scrollbars. Is that an unpopular opinion? I don't know. But I've been to too many sites with scrollers that are 5px wide or whatever. Goodbye, site - I can't find the damned scrollbar. If I have to use the scroll bar, I'm done. I either use the wheel on my mouse, or NOPE. So those scroll bars could be hidden, for all I care, as long as there's something that indicates I need to scroll to find everything, then mouse wheel ftw <3 1 Captain Amelia Waterhouse, Commanding Officer =/\= Join =/\= Roster & Openings =/\= Rules =/\= Chat =/\= "It is human nature to yearn to be what we were never intended for. It is singular, but it is so." -Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kit the Human 759 Share Posted December 28, 2017 6 hours ago, Kullervo said: My current unpopular opinions would be: Plot pages/plotters/shippers. Probably very unpopular. Some sites do use these well. But on sites I've joined or had, they've either been largely ignored or literally useless with people (passively) talking back and forth on how their characters would hypothetically respond to each other and then never threading, ever. Pet peeve right here. Your theory about random characters is not particularly helpful for actual plotting. 2 PSI: an Occult Investigations RP Roleplay Architects: Grab a friend (or many friends!) and just write. You can also find me at: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawman 88 Share Posted December 28, 2017 (edited) 12 hours ago, Kullervo said: Dealing with OOC or IC issues through IC rather than the staff talking to the member first. Yeah, I'm not talking about 'IC actions = IC consequences' or tying loose ends IC when a character "disappears" because they or their writer were a problem and the writer went swimming with the fishes. I'm talking more of the passive, indirect problem-solving because the admin cannot spare to be upfront/transparent. You're referring to when someone has an OOC problem with another player (can be member-member or staff-member), but rather than confront the issue in OOC dialogue they choose to try to screw over the problem member in-RP as a means of indirectly saying "fuck you" to them right? Edited December 28, 2017 by Lawman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nyx 164 Share Posted December 28, 2017 (edited) Elaborate thread templates that take me out the rp. I like simple templates that will align my text neatly however if I'm forced to use one that requires I have a header, four gifs and two lines of song lyrics...I'm out and I love graphics until the end of time ya'll...but no. Edited December 28, 2017 by wicked 2 1 1 + :: c o m i n g s o o n :: + Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
featherstone 69 Share Posted December 29, 2017 @wicked amen, but also, why do you need a "simple" template when you can have a skin that does just that (justifying your text, making your paragraphs a certain width etc)? UNMASQUED Vampires are real. Now the world knows about them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nyx 164 Share Posted December 29, 2017 15 minutes ago, featherstone said: @wicked amen, but also, why do you need a "simple" template when you can have a skin that does just that (justifying your text, making your paragraphs a certain width etc)? We didn't add it to the skin because we have some members that prefer not to use it or any templates on site which is cool with us. It's the overly flashy ones that we take a strong no on. 2 + :: c o m i n g s o o n :: + Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vellamo 74 Share Posted December 29, 2017 On 28/12/2017 at 5:46 AM, Lawman said: You're referring to when someone has an OOC problem with another player (can be member-member or staff-member), but rather than confront the issue in OOC dialogue they choose to try to screw over the problem member in-RP as a means of indirectly saying "fuck you" to them right? Pretty much. You're better at wording it than I am! I've seen it done by staff (mostly), where there's a rule about 'everything is 100% IC' or 'OOC being dealt IC' to address minor things (inactivity, passiveness, stupidity IC). But it ends up being a way to weed out a member staff don't like or want by manipulating IC. It never works because it's too indirect and a pm or ban would've easily solved the issue. Suppose, it's easy to forget screen names and icons are real people behind them who can actually back! Never happened to me but I seem to fall for where this is popular. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shades 676 Share Posted December 30, 2017 I have heard (well, read) many reasons why this happens, and I can even agree on a rational level with some of them, but I always wonder whether or not it's worth joining a site where staff is exempt from any of their rules, even/especially activity rules. While rationally I understand that staff has on-site jobs/obligations members don't, like preparing events and such, it always rubs me the wrong way that they have a rule they can't follow themselves, but you, as a member, can lose your character and place on the site for not following this rule. 1 1 Shady McShaderson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quell 249 Share Posted December 30, 2017 2 hours ago, Shades said: I have heard (well, read) many reasons why this happens, and I can even agree on a rational level with some of them, but I always wonder whether or not it's worth joining a site where staff is exempt from any of their rules, even/especially activity rules. While rationally I understand that staff has on-site jobs/obligations members don't, like preparing events and such, it always rubs me the wrong way that they have a rule they can't follow themselves, but you, as a member, can lose your character and place on the site for not following this rule. I'm going to second this unpopular opinion. >> I have never understood this rule. My feeling is that an admin is a member who has extra duties. (It's like the President; they are not above the law. They still have to pay taxes; they can't go around murdering people because they're in charge. That's corruption and a mess~) My unpopular opinion: I actually really like the "literacy" rating scale because I am a little snobby and I don't want to have to teach someone how to roleplay. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibson 21 Share Posted December 30, 2017 I don't like sandbox boards. I've played on my fair share and they always seem to stagnate and die. People just write their ships with a couple writers, the board breaks off into mini cliques based on who's sleeping with who, and nothing ever happens. I love changing worlds and events that drive the plot and push unlikely characters together. I like stuff happening. I like a setting that evolves over time. Give me your riots and your natural disasters and your wars. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rune 1,099 Share Posted December 30, 2017 On 12/27/2017 at 6:39 AM, CovertSphinx said: You always struck me as a..... "Lovable Rogue" type. Aww you guys /blush On 12/27/2017 at 6:39 AM, CovertSphinx said: You always struck me as a..... "Lovable Rogue" type. Aww you guys /blush On 12/27/2017 at 6:39 AM, CovertSphinx said: You always struck me as a..... "Lovable Rogue" type. Aww you guys /blush 1 Heart of the Community 2018 Cry Wolf - 18+ AU Mercy Thompson (Urban Fantasy) RP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morpheus 14 Share Posted February 27, 2018 I like small fonts - most sites I just zoom out to 80%, larger fonts strain my eyes I don't mind seeing word counts in rules, it's not a deterrent. I just like to know what is expected. I loathe posting templates when they're overly frilly, needing gifs or not built into the code or at least a bbcode option for something simple and clean to just click. Basically, I don't want to do more than write my post. I don't want to copy and paste a code and I certainly don't want to go finding complimentary images. I also want them wider than 200px tyvm. Personally I like discord for private or gaming use. I don't like discord as the only (or even primary) option as a member/guest - I'm just private, shy and socially inept that I just don't want to walk into a room full of strangers with a screen name I probably don't want to share with people I don't know. I hate giving pronouns on boards for myself. I'm just at that level of private that likes being that ambiguous weirdo. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KainZilla 17 Popular Post Share Posted February 27, 2018 I can't tell if it is a popular opinion or an unpopular one but I am agitated boards and templates that feel over-designed. Yes, your layers upon layers of hovers and stuff that moves around is beautiful. But maybe make sure that it is also usable. If you need to go on a treasure hunt to find the important thread son a site because they are buried 15 layers deep then you have sacrificed the entire function and point of having the link there to begin with (the point being that it is there to be found easily). I think where this most bothers me is with posting templates that have a static height with a picture on top that you hover to disperse. These look awesome but they are not friendly to your RP partners. For one, they are a pain on mobile. For two, scrolling through a tiny box forever is terrible. Maybe if your post was 100-200 words, that would be okay. Have you ever tried to read a 1000-2000 word post in a box that measures 300x300? It feels like you're scrolling for years. And yet these sorts of templates are still VERY popular. 3 3 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Cat 83 Share Posted March 30, 2018 (edited) The "muse" excuse needs to perish. Edited April 1, 2018 by Lucky Cat 1 1 2 INFO | CANONS & POSITIONS | WANTED-ADS | WHAT WE COULD USE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huli 31 Share Posted March 30, 2018 I like romantic plots as much as the next person, but tbh.......... they rank pretty low on my list of rp priorities. I don't see why people keep trying to immediately pair off their characters. And I hate, hate, hate relationship drama; I'd prefer any conflict they encounter to come from outside sources. It just seems so petty and boring to me. Idk. Maybe it's because a lot of romantic conflict comes from jealousy and I'm just ...... ???? ??? ????????? about jealousy in relationships. I'm literally dating four people, don't ask me about jealousy, I don't know how it works. For most of my characters, I focus a lot more on non-romantic relations and other types of love. Any romance that happens anymore tends to develop as a result of IC interaction rather than anything pre-planned. I despise gifs in layouts. I hate them. I loathe them. They're distracting and unnecessary and there's no point and I hate them so much. They're okay in like, cbox avatars and... that's about it. I also hate post templates mostly because I'm lazy... Also, I'm seconding what someone said earlier in the thread about post templates with tiny scrollboxes. I spend over half of my time on mobile, please no. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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