I told you, I didn't like gamewide AIM chats. And thankfully, most of my old LJ games only had a handful of short, scheduled gamewide chats when it was necessary to discuss some major plot. Yes, it still sucked if you had work of if you lived in an unusual time zone, but the mods would make accommodations and eventually everyone would get filled in.
What I liked were the one on one private AIM conversations. Most people kept their private chats quick and to the point, and they weren't constantly spamming everyone on their friends list with inane details about their private lives. Maybe that happened in gamewide chats, but I didn't really do those. Even the obnoxious, oversharing types usually respected an away message if you didn't feel like dealing with them. On Plurk, it's all or nothing - you either follow someone and see everything all the time (unless you go through and consciously decide to mute, which can get annoying if you have a lot of plurk friends) or you unfollow and see nothing, even if it's relevant to your game. That kind of unfollowing means that it's easy for the Plurk side of games to get completely dominated by cliques. If you're not following someone and they're not following you, you can't plot with them outside of a private plurk... and Plurk tittybabies think sending a private plurk is ~intimidating~.
On AIM, if you wanted to do a log with somebody, you IMed them with ideas for the scene, instead of making some vague plurk about how you want to play ALL THE THINGS and how other people should take all the initiative in coming to you with ideas. There are so many lazy as fuck plotters on Plurk who think that all the initiative they need to take is reposting a link to their open thread.
And yeah, with out-of-context screencaps getting posted on wankgate all the time and incessant wank from rp partners who feel neglected when their bff threads with someone else, I don't really want other people seeing my conversations. I know I've gotten irrationally buttmad when I've seen a rp friend plurking about how much fun they're having in some other thread while they haven't tagged me back in over a week, so I don't see the point in sharing all of that. It also gets confusing and annoying to be having a conversation with one person while another is trying to butt in. I do use private plurks sometimes for friends that I talk to frequently in real time, but AIM is more convenient for idle socializing because it keeps better logs. And it blinks reliably when there's a new comment, while Plurk very often fails to show new comments.
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What I liked were the one on one private AIM conversations. Most people kept their private chats quick and to the point, and they weren't constantly spamming everyone on their friends list with inane details about their private lives. Maybe that happened in gamewide chats, but I didn't really do those. Even the obnoxious, oversharing types usually respected an away message if you didn't feel like dealing with them. On Plurk, it's all or nothing - you either follow someone and see everything all the time (unless you go through and consciously decide to mute, which can get annoying if you have a lot of plurk friends) or you unfollow and see nothing, even if it's relevant to your game. That kind of unfollowing means that it's easy for the Plurk side of games to get completely dominated by cliques. If you're not following someone and they're not following you, you can't plot with them outside of a private plurk... and Plurk tittybabies think sending a private plurk is ~intimidating~.
On AIM, if you wanted to do a log with somebody, you IMed them with ideas for the scene, instead of making some vague plurk about how you want to play ALL THE THINGS and how other people should take all the initiative in coming to you with ideas. There are so many lazy as fuck plotters on Plurk who think that all the initiative they need to take is reposting a link to their open thread.
And yeah, with out-of-context screencaps getting posted on wankgate all the time and incessant wank from rp partners who feel neglected when their bff threads with someone else, I don't really want other people seeing my conversations. I know I've gotten irrationally buttmad when I've seen a rp friend plurking about how much fun they're having in some other thread while they haven't tagged me back in over a week, so I don't see the point in sharing all of that. It also gets confusing and annoying to be having a conversation with one person while another is trying to butt in. I do use private plurks sometimes for friends that I talk to frequently in real time, but AIM is more convenient for idle socializing because it keeps better logs. And it blinks reliably when there's a new comment, while Plurk very often fails to show new comments.