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Sorry if this comes off a bit blunt here but I need to say something.

What good is whining about it going to do? People are busy and may not have time to put in a lot of detail. Instead of complaining about the lack of creativity in people's top comments, perhaps you should be reaching out to these players through PMs, asking if they would be interested in plotting things out for the event with you. Personally, I think that people are going to put up generic comments because they don't really have any plans put into finite motions.

What's done is done and complaining about it is only going to make matters worse and people won't want to tag your character if this is how you're going to act.

This thing is, you are still suggesting that the players in question don't need to put any effort at all into their tags.

If they have no plans and are just putting up "standing around in X doing nothing" then what reason would I have to want to plot with them? If they have no plans, shouldn't it then be on them to try and give people a reason to tag them? Why do I have to be the one to reach out jut for them to put in some effort?

If someone has no time to put any trace of effort into their tags, then they shouldn't be playing in a game. The lack of effort people complained about during 4th wall was one thing, but this is actual game play here.

And for the record, I'm planning on doing what the anon above you a suggested and keep track of who isn't putting in effort for HMD. If it looks like it'd been a pattern for them and not a one time thing (ie maybe they were just busy during this particular event), they're getting called out. Even if it means critting half the game. So clearly, complaining isn't going to "make things worse" if it means I can get people to start thinking more about how they tag into the mass logs.

Also: People won't tag my character? Are you serious? This is a fucking anoncomm, get off your high horse.

Wow. Seriously anon? You're going to crit everyone? And you talk about me being on a high horse. Maybe you should take the time to step down off your own first and consider other people's feelings. RP is supposed to be fun and by doing something so drastic as threatening to crit half the game is going to do possibly do more harm than good.

Frankly speaking, if this is the tone that you're going to be taking when critting someone, you're going to come off sounding like an elitist asshat. Why don't you sit down, take a deep breath and shut the fuck up before you haul off and flap your gums about something that people are doing as a hobby. You don't think they're putting in effort, fine. Don't tag them but honestly, there shouldn't be any need to crit someone because of that. Some people are more comfortable plotting things out with people they know aren't going to jump down their throats.

If you're trying to ruin RP for someone, you're clearly doing a very good job of it. Stop being such a pretentious bitch.

RP =/= srs bzns

Asking people to put effort into their rp makes me a pretentious bitch?

lol okay.

There's a difference between making a generic scene-setting tag for something like a mass log and not putting any effort into tags in an ongoing thread, though. The first one is understandable if you're trying to make something that's open to a lot of people - I know that it always bugs me when I see a character I would really like to tag on a log but their starter is such a specific scenario that there's no IC reason for my character to be involved in it. I'd much rather that someone make a generic, open starter in a mass log and then go into more detail once a thread gets underway. Add in the fact that a lot of people do a lot of tagging around on event logs and it becomes even more understandable. I don't mind people writing tags that are a little shorter if it means they do more tagging around as a trade-off.

Also, one generic log starter =/= someone not putting effort into their threads. I've threaded with plenty of people who will do short dialogue tags in one thread and multi-paragraph actions in another depending on the setting and tone of the thread.

My starter comment for the event is pretty generic because I didn't get to do much plotting and got into the event plotting post late because of RL stuff. Since I didn't really have a lot of specific plans, I made a generic "oh character is over here doing a thing, then they're over there doing something else" to make it open to as many people as possible.

Plus, given the nature of the event, IC characters have no idea that anything is even different; as far as they know, it's a normal week. They're doing whatever they normally do.

There's a difference between generic and no effort at all. I'm talking about the latter.

"Bob is at the grocery store shopping for gifts for his girlfriend."

I would consider that to have enough to respond to, even if the scope is sorta limited. A lot of people did that on the log and I have nothing against that, since coming up with multiple unique and interesting things all at once is a lot to ask for an event where not much is really going on.

"Bob can be found at the grocery store, the library, and the plaza."

That does not, and there is a disturbingly high number of people who did just that on the log. There are at least 8+ where that is about all they put, and half of those people didn't get any tags.

I see maybe five people who have done that, and of those one of them is giving substantial tags in the actual threads and another one of them is giving at least decent-length tags.

I think you're greatly exaggerating this phenomenon, anon.

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