Other Things that make you write off a user?

[SP3CT3R]

There are three kinds of users I avoid whenever possible:

• "I just think Trump is the lesser of two evils, haven't you ever watched South Park?", bonus points for waifu or lolita avatar
• "my delicatea feefees,,, why areu u so meain??????"
• Basically anyone I remember dealing with as a moderator

Regarding that first one, I kinda figured talking politics was off-limits on the site. Is that an in-general thing or is there some secret subforum where people discuss controversial topics?

 

[Idea]

Is that an in-general thing or is there some secret subforum where people discuss controversial topics?

If I recall there was a time when such a thing was going to get it's own subforum, but the idea was dropped I believe

 

[welian]

Regarding that first one, I kinda figured talking politics was off-limits on the site. Is that an in-general thing or is there some secret subforum where people discuss controversial topics?

It gets discussed every so often, but quickly shut down once the topic explodes. In my case, it's a general thing. There's a certain kind of aggressively libertarian/conservative personality that I absolutely cannot stand, and it's usually - but not always - indicated by an underage anime girl avatar, paired with a special interest in military or wartime geopolitical history. I run into it a little bit on RPN, but mostly on Tumblr and Twitter. My description is actually a reference to a text post I reblogged sometime last year.

And tbh most of the reason I avoid RPing with users who strike me as that kind of person is because in my experience, they tend to be extremely detail oriented and I am literally incapable of being a game master for a combat-oriented player who wants to know every minute detail of a spell or superpower and how it compares to ballistic weaponry. Like, dude, I don't know shit about tanks. I don't know if a superpowered punch has the same armor-piercing force as a tank shell. Does it matter?

 

[Archdemon]

Hmmmmmm, personally I judge a person in terms of first impressions on what personality they have. I'm good with most people as I'm a chill dude to begin with, but if I can tell a person is gonna be a jerk I usually won't deal with them, otherwise I don't have a problem with most people. The only thing that kinda annoys me are people with super edgy profile stuff. Other than that I usually have no problems with people on first impressions.

 

[Lemon Boy]

There are a fair few types of people on the internet that make me yearn for the abyss:

• Weird Asian fetishists. You can typically tell they're one by skimming over their profile page, username and types of RPs they get involved in. It's pretty disturbing to meet someone who has an utterly shallow, uninformed view on an Asian culture in general. How they practically god-worship it, saying how their own country should become totally like it and changing their appearance to match a person of Asian ethnicity (Altering eye shape, yellow face, fake internet ethnicity). I personally put it in the Racism camp, of the more insidious kind that people are liable to ignore because it isn't "hurting" anyone even though it does have a negative impact by making it easier for people to paint the picture of "Model minority" and a number of other tiring things to deal with. Weaboo's were once the worst offenders, but it's only seem to have gotten more intense as Koreaboo's start popping up everywhere. Doesn't help that they also often delve into the creepier sexual kink side of things too more often than not.
• "I don't mind writing with gay/trans people but..." Nah I'm not even going to explain this one. Vile people. I shouldn't need to argue about my right to exist when I'm just trying to write something I enjoy.
• Expanding and agreeing on Middleagedgeek's comment in regards to labels; those skin crawling young teens who do that Uke/Seme or Top/Bottom shit genuinely. Weird stereotyping fuckery goes on with that. As a gay guy it strikes me as skeevy to see, more often than not straight teenage girls, go about applying a degrading " helpless, emotional woman" label to one man and "masculine dominant savior" to the another.
• People who try to twist entire RP settings that aren't their own to fulfill their pseudo-political/philosophy needs. "You know what, I want to change the plot, have a revolution occur! ANARCHISM! cApItAliSm iS eVuL" nah fuck off mate. Go find one of those "intellectual" debate sites and yank yourself off over there instead.
• Combat obsessives. Listen, It's not my problem the army rejected you because you have asthma and you're now a bitter human who only wants to write about killing the baddies whilst being incredibly pedantic and particular about guns that no one else knows about. Literally the only reason these people write is to prove their superiority over the civvie plebs and take out their insecurity issues on unknowing RPer's who find themselves victim to being on the opposite side of them in a fight scene. They also tend to want to talk about guns, fighting styles or weirdly enough, monster girls who weirdly look like children, and nothing else.

 

[SP3CT3R]

It gets discussed every so often, but quickly shut down once the topic explodes. In my case, it's a general thing. There's a certain kind of aggressively libertarian/conservative personality that I absolutely cannot stand, and it's usually - but not always - indicated by an underage anime girl avatar, paired with a special interest in military or wartime geopolitical history. I run into it a little bit on RPN, but mostly on Tumblr and Twitter. My description is actually a reference to a text post I reblogged sometime last year.

And tbh most of the reason I avoid RPing with users who strike me as that kind of person is because in my experience, they tend to be extremely detail oriented and I am literally incapable of being a game master for a combat-oriented player who wants to know every minute detail of a spell or superpower and how it compares to ballistic weaponry. Like, dude, I don't know shit about tanks. I don't know if a superpowered punch has the same armor-piercing force as a tank shell. Does it matter?

I definitely agree with you on that front. Number crunching is an absolute nightmare, and it kills my creativity because I have to do physics calculations for every post.

 

[welian]

I definitely agree with you on that front. Number crunching is an absolute nightmare, and it kills my creativity because I have to do physics calculations for every post.

If I ever run a dice RP, I'm gonna use some Excel magic and automate the shit out of it. I didn't flunk out of art school to do arithmetic in my roleplays!

Combat obsessives.

I'm calling copyright infringement on this talking point!

 

[BackSet]

There are a fair few types of people on the internet that make me yearn for the abyss:

• Weird Asian fetishists. You can typically tell they're one by skimming over their profile page, username and types of RPs they get involved in. It's pretty disturbing to meet someone who has an utterly shallow, uninformed view on an Asian culture in general. How they practically god-worship it, saying how their own country should become totally like it and changing their appearance to match a person of Asian ethnicity (Altering eye shape, yellow face, fake internet ethnicity). I personally put it in the Racism camp, of the more insidious kind that people are liable to ignore because it isn't "hurting" anyone even though it does have a negative impact by making it easier for people to paint the picture of "Model minority" and a number of other tiring things to deal with. Weaboo's were once the worst offenders, but it's only seem to have gotten more intense as Koreaboo's start popping up everywhere. Doesn't help that they also often delve into the creepier sexual kink side of things too more often than not.
• "I don't mind writing with gay/trans people but..." Nah I'm not even going to explain this one. Vile people. I shouldn't need to argue about my right to exist when I'm just trying to write something I enjoy.
• Expanding and agreeing on Middleagedgeek's comment in regards to labels; those skin crawling young teens who do that Uke/Seme or Top/Bottom shit genuinely. Weird stereotyping fuckery goes on with that. As a gay guy it strikes me as skeevy to see, more often than not straight teenage girls, go about applying a degrading " helpless, emotional woman" label to one man and "masculine dominant savior" to the another.
• People who try to twist entire RP settings that aren't their own to fulfill their pseudo-political/philosophy needs. "You know what, I want to change the plot, have a revolution occur! ANARCHISM! cApItAliSm iS eVuL" nah fuck off mate. Go find one of those "intellectual" debate sites and yank yourself off over there instead.
• Combat obsessives. Listen, It's not my problem the army rejected you because you have asthma and you're now a bitter human who only wants to write about killing the baddies whilst being incredibly pedantic and particular about guns that no one else knows about. Literally the only reason these people write is to prove their superiority over the civvie plebs and take out their insecurity issues on unknowing RPer's who find themselves victim to being on the opposite side of them in a fight scene. They also tend to want to talk about guns, fighting styles or weirdly enough, monster girls who weirdly look like children, and nothing else.

Okay, I agree with you but that's not why I'm quoting your post. I'm quiting your post because I want to tell you how much I absolutely love your avatar (since you limit those who might view your profile).

 

[adrian_]

I don't really judge to be honest, but I don't really like excessively cringy or edgy quotes in a signature/'under the name thingy' unless it comes from an actual work or culture. Of course mine is not included, and i'll shamelessly advertise a multi-part story i'm working on in my signature.

 

[Abyssosque]

I tend to write someone off if they're unwilling to write prose/paragraphs. Given that I use RP as a writing exercise, I'm not interested in RPs where asterisks are the primary mode of communication. Nothing against anyone who's into that, it's just not my cup of tea.

I strongly agree with this. The person who introduced me to role-player is a friend of mine who used such methods and it went absolutely nowhere and... I have so many more pet-peeves in regards to her writing style and lack of vocabulary or willingness to help form a plot that makes sense.

 

[BackSet]

I don't really judge to be honest, but I don't really like excessively cringy or edgy quotes in a signature/'under the name thingy' unless it comes from an actual work or culture. Of course mine is not included, and i'll shamelessly advertise a multi-part story i'm working on in my signature.

It's called a custom user title.

I really tend to write off users who use too many acronyms and spell you as u.

People who use different fonts, colors, text sizes, and/or formats for their posts regardless of whether or not they're rping.

 

[welian]

Building on that, people who use tiny fonts. I'm sure they have wonderful things to write, but.... if I can't read the post, I'm never gonna know.

 

[Fable]

• Small fonts making it too hard for me to read what is is typed.
• Grammar/spelling so awful I can't understand what has been typed.
• Lack of details for preferences. I also don't want to spend time asking questions only to find days later we are not going to work out over something that could have been presented in their search information.
• Too many preferences. I'm talking about those who have very very very very very specific requirements that must all align without any compromise.
• TL;DR searches/interest checks that are about as long as a book chapter. Kind of connected to the point above.
• Moderator Encounters (welian gets this, more than a first impression though, lol)
• Lack of avatar; it just puts me off that they can't bother to sort of... personalize their profile. Makes me wary of what other things they lack in effort on.
• Random RP invites or random tags to RPs from people I am not familiar or really friendly with. I don't really feel flattered when I get these. I feel like a faceless user because most of these I get don't hit on any of my interests.

Also... Hi my name is Fyuri and yes I am an optimistic pessimist.

 

[adrian_]

• Small fonts making it too hard for me to read what is is typed.
• Grammar/spelling so awful I can't understand what has been typed.
• Lack of details for preferences. I also don't want to spend time asking questions only to find days later we are not going to work out over something that could have been presented in their search information.
• Too many preferences. I'm talking about those who have very very very very very specific requirements that must all align without any compromise.
• TL;DR searches/interest checks that are about as long as a book chapter. Kind of connected to the point above.
• Moderator Encounters (welian gets this, more than a first impression though, lol)
• Lack of avatar; it just puts me off that they can't bother to sort of... personalize their profile. Makes me wary of what other things they lack in effort on.
• Random RP invites or random tags to RPs from people I am not familiar or really friendly with. I don't really feel flattered when I get these. I feel like a faceless user because most of these I get don't hit on any of my interests.

Also... Hi my name is Fyuri and yes I am an optimistic pessimist.

it really do sometimes be like that huh they say it aint but it is

 

[BackSet]

it really do sometimes be like that huh they say it aint but it is

I have absolutely no idea what that means.

 

[SP3CT3R]

I have absolutely no idea what that means.

It just be like that.

 

[adrian_]

It just be like that.

it really do

 

[Tove]

Messages like "Hey! Wanna rp?" or insulting my request thread. You sent me a message to write not the other way around. Insulting my ideas will only serve to get you ignored.

 

[Fable]

Messages like "Hey! Wanna rp?" or insulting my request thread. You sent me a message to write not the other way around. Insulting my ideas will only serve to get you ignored.

Oh god, I forgot about the like one rare instance something like this happened to me. Mostly felt it was out of some weird retaliation because I wasn't interested in RPing with them.

 

[Laifan]

As far as first impressions go... Nigh to unreadable font. Having the option to change your font is nice but people seem to choose to change it to the curly thin types and then change the size to smaller to boot which... Makes it really hard to read, especially if you mostly use your phone to visit the website.

 

[2inchlich]

• Small font. I get migraines easily and straining to read tiny or otherwise illegible font can contribute to those. On other sites I've just blocked people that I see regularly using tiny font.
• If they very obviously only RP fetishy things. I just don't like it.
• If they want to change my character's sexuality/gender. If the character's a straight female, she's a straight female, sorry. I haven't seen this here yet but it's been a huge issue elsewhere since I don't really write many lgbt characters.
• People who approach me after very clearly disregarding my rules/preferences. Also, who approach me with something really vague like "hey" and nothing else.

 

[BasiliskVeranda]

I don't think it's really fair to write anybody off from just a glance, or even just one post. Some people may have had usernames and avatars for forever and grew up as the site flourished. The only users I give a wide birth are people who appear arrogant, can't take a joke, or are needlessly nitpicky.

They actually tend to be the worst writers (just my experience), and I'd rather not engage with someone in a storytelling venture if they're going to be a dead fish about everything.

 

[rae2nerdy]

Some more things that turn me off

When People whine about others preferences. Like they whine about age limits, post limits, image preferences, etc. It just seems so childish to get upset because people have different preferences to you.

Also people who say they roleplay a specific romantic pairing and then say their partner has to be the opposite IRL gender to them. Ex. I'm a girl who does MxF romance and I need my partner to be a boy.

It just skeeves me out and tells me the people are basically treating this like a dating site.

 

[Laifan]

Some more things that turn me off

When People whine about others preferences. Like they whine about age limits, post limits, image preferences, etc. It just seems so childish to get upset because people have different preferences to you.

Also people who say they roleplay a specific romantic pairing and then say their partner has to be the opposite IRL gender to them. Ex. I'm a girl who does MxF romance and I need my partner to be a boy.

It just skeeves me out and tells me the people are basically treating this like a dating site.

Ugh I feel you about the gender thing. I've seen it around and it's really off putting.

 

[Caligula]

Them: hey

Me: Hi

Them: how are u

Me: