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rpanons is an anonymous community for role-play related topics. This place serves as a forum for game discussions, canon discussions, RP solicitations (ATP, game ads, open memes), and advice. The occasional off topic comment is inevitable, but please keep heated social and political topics to their respective communities. Posting them here will only get them frozen. Subsequent threads made to bypass a freeze will then be deleted.

Temporary Change: To reduce the strain on Dreamwidth's servers new entries will go up when a post reaches 3,000. Please refrain from spamming so we can stretch these entries for a little longer. We don't need several threads soliciting photo evidence of body parts, and we already know that we only care about yaoi. Failure to comply will only result in deletions and butthurt. "People may notice site slowdown/cache error pages. We're working on fixing. You can help: finish posts at 3k comments, not 5k or more." - Dreamwidth@Twitter

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Wow. You can't get across an understanding of a character in 1k words, and you think a handful of grammar mistakes in an otherwise perfectly viable app that proves someone can play the character is reason to waste the apper and mods' time with an unnecessary "fix all your grammar mistakes and resubmit" step, when both parties know that if that's the only problem, they're clearly going to be accepted? Instead of calling someone else lazy for not reading an extensive essay and taking a red pen to comma misuse in a non-educational forum, you should consider that it is actually a hell of a skill to be able to edit your freakin' writing. A well-edited short piece can express way more understanding than a bunch of ridiculous unnecessary filler, and word count is not proportional to understanding or ability, whatsoever. 5k words is not necessary to demonstrate ability to play. That's a short story. And I personally have never been interested in writing a thesis to get into an RP.

If you don't think RPs that demand 5k are ridiculous, because it's a challenge, then you shouldn't think an RP that demands 1k is ridiculous. Because it's a challenge.

Also, it is pretty silly to claim a moderator group that takes ESL players into account, and is thus more flexible and welcoming towards its potential playerbase, is uncaring towards the efforts their players put in. And you said this in the same breath as saying it "just isn't fair to the players with good grammar," and called it "unjust" to mix in the rabble who might misuse a semicolon. Just... gosh.

Speaking as someone that has had a concise app rejected from another game for being too short, on that basis alone, I do appreciate that Thusia favors a concise understanding of a character vs. bloated repetition.

The idea that 5k+ words on rehashing character history = quality in the app world grinds my gears.

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