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I guess it just feels a little rude to me. If someone made a post or top comment in prose because that's what they prefer, I would respond to them with prose. Likewise, I would expect them to show the same courtesy towards other people's preferences, even if that person's preferred format isn't something they particularly like.

Also, responding with one type of format makes a thread feel more cohesive to me. Say I'm responding in third person prose with past tense while the other person is responding in third person brackets, in present tense. It makes old threads feel weird when I'm reading them later. It could just be the RP circles I run in, though, where things are done this way.

I've started out tags in games with prose and had people reply in brackets because it's more comfortable/easier for them. I know if I wanted to I could continue in prose and they in brackets and on one would give a fuck.

When you bring brackets into it in the first place, there's too much subjectiveness to really say that it's cohesive in the first place. Some people like small text, big brackets. Some like everything small. Some don't like any of it small. Some do italicized. Some don't even do brackets and use other styles. Even in 'brackets', the styles don't always mesh up, so really, who cares?

To your original point about someone in a game using prose when everyone else is using brackets? I've never seen a 'brackets only' game, but honestly, I haven't been in that many. That being said, it's a matter of preference and comfort, just like past/present tense is.

I used brackets as an example because prose vs brackets comes up in RP pretty often as those are the two general rp styles, with specifics like text size not really mattering. For my original example, I would still think it would be a little rude if there was a game where everyone used prose and only one person refused not to by using brackets or commentspam.

I do think it's great that you don't care because it sounds like it would be easy to have a fun thread with you and I agree that it's a matter of comfort, but why is it so hard to adapt to what the person you tagged likes for that thread? To be fair, a lot of people end up writing prose within action brackets anyway, so it's really not that difficult to adapt your play style a little for the person you're playing with, no matter what your preferred format is.

I can understand that and I'm a conforming person, but I've run into a lot of people who 'can't do it'. I don't personally understand why myself since I'm incredibly OCD and it takes me a really long time to adapt to things, but I can switch formats to suit whoever I'm with when they can't. That's just sort of the way it is. There's the ones that can switch and change and adapt to help make it seem more fluid and the ones who can't. There could be legitimate reasons for why they can't, like learning disabilities or maybe a bigger OCD issue (and a real one, not this everyone has OCD thing), so I find it easier for everyone involved to just be the one to adapt. It saves time and trouble and it doesn't hurt me to switch. I'll admit I prefer prose to brackets, but I'm capable of switching.

Yes, it would be rude, but unless it's in a rule like "This is a prose-only game" and someone tried to write in brackets, I don't really think it's more than a semi-annoyance. There's so much more worthwhile stuff to get upset over or find fault in, this just seems more picky than necessary.

A good skill in RP is adaptability and by tagging that person you are the one agreeing to adapt to them. If you can't even do that much by adapting your tagging style to suit the person you chose to tag, you are being rude.

Also it looks terrible. Have you ever seen a bracket to prose to bracket thread? It puts me off immediately.

not to be pedantic, but the threads aren't for the people cruising by to read. they're for the people writing them. anyone reading it and liking it/not liking it is a secondary occurrence.

I was speaking as someone involved in one, since I can't stand to continue a thread where I'm using brackets and the person who tagged me keeps using prose. It looks terrible and I'll drop it in a quick second.

But thanks for assuming.

i always make sure to match up tenses and action styles with whoever i'm playing with. it's polite.

I think communication is more key here than anything.

I nearly always use brackets because after switching between the two styles now and then I know for a fact that I am always faster with brackets (even if I'm of the prose-in-brackets school). No concrete idea why. So for practicality I'll usually respond to most posts in brackets and ask if that's okay. I haven't had anyone say no yet.

I prefer brackets, but if I'm responding to someone who made a top comment in prose, that's what I'll use too. It's just basic courtesy.

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