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Did you learn how to play the way you play now in museboxes/memes/drs?

Because I sure as hell didn't.

Yes, those three are great to learn the ropes - everything from how the site works to how to kinda sorta play - but they won't make you a good RPer. Yes, an above anon said that you can make friends there, who will end up giving you advice... But a) only when you know you will need said advice, and b) only when your friends are the type to actually give crit. Let's face it, most people in DWRP are more likely to pat your butt than to point out your flaws.

More so when they might not see the flaws at all, which occasionally happens in PSLs and the likes: OOCness might seem IC due to different circumstances/an AU/character development/etc.

Never mind that, if you send all the newbies/not-yet-good players to the same place, 'improvement' is hardly guaranteed.

I agree that no one should be forced to 'train' a newbie, but I, for one, would hardly mind giving some advice to a new gamemate - while you would be perfectly free to ignore them until they meet your standards (or forever, that entirely depends on you).

How do you decide whether someone's just a newbie that needs to be trained or someone's just a bad roleplayer who should be rejected on being low quality? Where do you draw the line? How do you explain to one person they didn't get in because they'd been roleplaying long enough they're not a newbie but their roleplaying still isn't quality while another person is just new enough they get a pass and get the opportunity to play despite their current quality?

You can't make such small rules and expect to have clearly defined lines and not offend people. Either you have a standard of quality or not. There are games out there that have lower quality standards that are good for new people to learn the ropes. Exitvoid has different quality standards that they enforce.

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