PLUSES: -I've finished threads with the player, within a decently quick timeframe (less than one month for a thread). -I've been able to boomerang the player a few times. -The player has tagged one of my posts without having to be poked into it. -The player is proactive and involved in plots. -The threads we've played together are fun and they seem like the type of person that could foster character development.
MINUSES: -The player has dropped multiple or all of our threads. -The player regularly takes more than 3 days to get back to a tag. -I've tagged out to the player many times but they've never tagged me. -We've been temp paired before and I had to practically beg for a thread and do all the legwork for setting it up. Everyone has bad months, and a bad temp pair experience isn't the end of the world, but I'll need to know I can plot with you without pulling teeth first. Hell, I once has someone ASK to temp pair with me, only to have them fail to post any opens, ignore my opens despite replying to the plurk pings I sent them about it, and eventually only reply when I made a specific starter for them that I had to come up with myself because they just said 'anything's good' when I asked. If it was a random pair I would have assumed they just weren't really interested, but why the heck would you ask for a specific character and then ignore them? -They never jump into plots on their own, they just say 'I have no ideas, does anyone want things?' and wait for others to offer plot. -The threads we've played are tough to tag because they don't give any hooks. -They spend a lot of time moping about RP on plurk.
(I'm a faster-paced tagger, though. Someone who prefers to go slow may have different answers for some of them.)
Re: TLV
-I've finished threads with the player, within a decently quick timeframe (less than one month for a thread).
-I've been able to boomerang the player a few times.
-The player has tagged one of my posts without having to be poked into it.
-The player is proactive and involved in plots.
-The threads we've played together are fun and they seem like the type of person that could foster character development.
MINUSES:
-The player has dropped multiple or all of our threads.
-The player regularly takes more than 3 days to get back to a tag.
-I've tagged out to the player many times but they've never tagged me.
-We've been temp paired before and I had to practically beg for a thread and do all the legwork for setting it up. Everyone has bad months, and a bad temp pair experience isn't the end of the world, but I'll need to know I can plot with you without pulling teeth first. Hell, I once has someone ASK to temp pair with me, only to have them fail to post any opens, ignore my opens despite replying to the plurk pings I sent them about it, and eventually only reply when I made a specific starter for them that I had to come up with myself because they just said 'anything's good' when I asked. If it was a random pair I would have assumed they just weren't really interested, but why the heck would you ask for a specific character and then ignore them?
-They never jump into plots on their own, they just say 'I have no ideas, does anyone want things?' and wait for others to offer plot.
-The threads we've played are tough to tag because they don't give any hooks.
-They spend a lot of time moping about RP on plurk.
(I'm a faster-paced tagger, though. Someone who prefers to go slow may have different answers for some of them.)