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(frozen comment) Re: UNPOPULAR DWRP OPINIONS

[(Anonymous)]

brackets should not be the dwrp standard. they're a nightmare to read, the coding is a pain in the ass, and they convey no more useful information than prose. net negative all around and yet they persist!!!!!

(frozen comment) Re: UNPOPULAR DWRP OPINIONS

[(Anonymous)]

the coding is a pain in the ass

okay this complaint i honestly don't get. what sort of device are you using that makes it a pain in the ass because even on my phone it's literally just a single press of one onscreen key to bring up the keypad with the necessary symbols

(frozen comment) Re: UNPOPULAR DWRP OPINIONS

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

genuine q, what device are you using that doesn't make it a pain in the ass? or are you using markdown to code your tags? idk, either way it's more work than straight prose for negative benefit.

(frozen comment) Re: UNPOPULAR DWRP OPINIONS

[(Anonymous)]

da

my mobile keyboard app (not the stock one) has a text replacement function. i type in a shortcut and it automatically replaces that shortcut with the html for smalltext and brackets

(frozen comment) Re: UNPOPULAR DWRP OPINIONS

[(Anonymous)]

yeah my phone's built-in keyboard has a shortcut function so I just use that.

(frozen comment) Re: UNPOPULAR DWRP OPINIONS

[(Anonymous)]

da and it takes me literally two seconds to write the html to make text smaller. and it's typing, which is something I'm already doing anyway when I reply to a tag because this is a writing hobby. I don't understand how typing a few extra words and symbols makes it 'a pain in the ass'.

when you write prose, you have to type out the "" for spoken words, so is that also a hassle to you, or...?

(frozen comment) Re: UNPOPULAR DWRP OPINIONS

[(Anonymous)]

da

they're talking about doing tags on the phone, where finding <> and = can be annoying. literally two people above you explain how they use shortcuts for html. "" is just with the numbers on the phone keyboard.

(frozen comment) Re: UNPOPULAR DWRP OPINIONS

[(Anonymous)]

i don't mind brackets but this is a weird argument because the html for brackets contains several times the amount of characters than the one or two for quotation marks. like yes of course it's more time consuming and more of a potential pain in the ass. it can break and screw up your whole tag and you might not notice until later, plus it doesn't display the same on everyone's devices, plus if you're on mobile even if you have a shortcut available (not guaranteed on everyone's phones) if you hit the wrong button and misformat your tag it's very tedious to fix...

i do a lot of phone tags on my commute between work and i skip tags that need formatting because i know if i accidentally put a space or a break between something, then i'm zooming in and out and fat fingering and making it worse while i'm already trying to block out the reality of being on crowded public transport, it just takes forever

(frozen comment) MASSIVE +1

[(Anonymous)]

SO hard to read and write. Not to mention it's awkward to add dialog tags or add in NPC dialog

Why is this the overwhelming norm?

(frozen comment) Re: MASSIVE +1

[(Anonymous)]

this is interesting because i find it much easier to read when i can look at a tag and immediately see at a glance which parts are action and which are dialogue

(frozen comment) Re: MASSIVE +1

[(Anonymous)]

"dialog tags" are things like 'he said,' anon

(frozen comment) Re: MASSIVE +1

[(Anonymous)]

well now i'm just confused. why would you be adding those with brackets? brackets make it like a screenplay, you don't use dialog tags in a screenplay.

(frozen comment) Re: MASSIVE +1

[(Anonymous)]

See, that's why the English language has the humble quotation mark

(frozen comment) +1

[(Anonymous)]

I will match prose but brackets is much easier for me to parse. Plus it drives me crazy if it's a more involved tag that has multiple sections of speech where if I was writing fic I'd find a way to smoothly add dialogue tags but when I can't add in anything from the other character it becomes massively awkward.

I use extensions that add brackets at a click of a button and on keyboard shortcut, so it's just as easy on mobile, but adding quotation marks is significantly more annoying... might actually add a button for them, too, now I think of it.

y'all who find it so hard to read should just ask for people to use prose though. I'll take slightly longer on prose tags but I'm not the majority.

(frozen comment) Re: MASSIVE +1

[(Anonymous)]

what do you mean it's awkward? you just put the dialog tag in the brackets, anon

most people literally just treat it like writing prose with extra html

(frozen comment) Re: MASSIVE +1

[(Anonymous)]

"most people literally just treat it like writing prose with extra html"

This is what I take umbrage with. Let's skip the html and write like the rest of the world

I know arguing is pointless and people can do what they want. I'm just genuinely baffled that brackets and html are a thing at all

(frozen comment) Re: MASSIVE +1

[(Anonymous)]

I find it easier to read because dialogue and description are much more visually distinct, which I prefer when I'm skimming through a thread to refresh myself on it.

If you prefer prose, just ask people to write prose with you. Most people will oblige.

(frozen comment) Re: UNPOPULAR DWRP OPINIONS

[(Anonymous)]

istg this thread is less 'unpopular opinions' and more 'opinions from bizarro world' because in what world are brackets hard to read

like surely even people who prefer prose don't prefer them for readability

i'm true neutral when it comes to prose vs brackets but brackets are objectively more readable because there's a more obvious visual distinction between dialog and action and the writing tends to be more broken up instead of lengthy paragraphs.

the advantage of prose is that it looks nicer and feels more organic and flexible, not that it's more readable.

(frozen comment) Re: UNPOPULAR DWRP OPINIONS

[(Anonymous)]

na

anon, people have been complaining about brackets being harder to read forever. it's about the size of the text.

(frozen comment) Re: UNPOPULAR DWRP OPINIONS

[(Anonymous)]

DA

brackets =/= small text

small text in brackets IS an abomination, tho. i really don't know why people thought smaller would be better for a writing format chosen specifically for quick reading

(frozen comment)

[(Anonymous)]

I 100% get where people are coming from with the small text we often use for brackets being hard to read (turn the default size of your browser up) or the coding being a pain on mobile (use those keyboard shortcuts, especially custom ones), but the reason I like brackets is because it makes the present tense we use for RP feel more like a script when read. I like to imagine the scenes like a playing being put on. :)

(frozen comment) +1

[(Anonymous)]

it's screenwriting

(frozen comment)

[(Anonymous)]

you can write prose in present tense

(frozen comment)

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt but they said they like it because it reads like a script, which is a valid form of writing

https://archive.org/details/titanic-1997-screenplay-and-treatment/Titanic%20%281997%29%20%5B5-7-1996%5D/mode/2up

sorry if you like prose but there's a reason why scripts and novels are completely different things

(frozen comment) Re: UNPOPULAR DWRP OPINIONS

[(Anonymous)]

i speak a language that writes vertically so idgaf whether people use brackets or prose tbqh

just make it legible