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you write a long tag for somebody but they don't match your length. do you feel snubbed? y/n

if it depends, explain

no

because i do it myself all the time

sometimes you just gotta stop the paragraphs of introspection and make your character open the damn door

nah. when i write a long tag, i do it because i think it's fun. it's kind of hard to explain, i don't want to be like I'M WRITING THIS FOR ME because i'm obviously rping with another person, and i want to play off another person otherwise i'd go write a fic, but i kind of am doing it for me? i don't know, i love getting in to the character's headspace or sticking a little bit of headcanon or a background detail or atmosphere in there during some scenes

i write short tags too, so idk. maybe if i was a longwinded rper all the time i'd get mad about it. sometimes the words just fucking flow, sometimes they don't. it's not a big deal, it's all for fun. i don't feel like my partner has to match my length at all

No, if there's enough for me to reply to.

fuck no

depends.

i don't care about tag length and i feel no pressure to match my partner's tag length -- i'll go longer or shorter depending on what i have to say.

however i get annoyed really quickly if i'm threading with someone who only responds to part of my tag and ignores the rest.

for instance if my tag is something like "[he hands her the cup of tea. its surface trembles as his hands shake, threatening to spill the hot liquid. does she know? what did she see last night?]

really? were you at the party?"

and they respond with

"yeah, it was a great party! [she smiles.]"

i will be sitting at my keyboard thinking, that's nice, but who has the damn teacup?

sorry about your vanishing teacups you're going to have to pick up some new ones next time you pass through diagon alley

underrated post

hahaha

i've been that rp partner, and i apologise

sometimes i legit forget to respond to certain things in a tag, but rest assured if it doesn't get answered this tag it'll get answered in the next one

ayrt

(Anonymous) - 2016-05-10 04:55 (UTC) - Expand

I mean, in that example I'd guess the other player just unconsciously felt that their character receiving the teacup was implied and forgot to think about it at all, but I do see your point in general.

Also I realize you'd probably be more worried about the introspection in that example, actually. But, then, I personally enjoy keeping introspection quiet sometimes, so I very well might tease out the question of what she saw last night. I'd make it more clear that I was doing it on purpose, though.

On the other hand, see the previous thread about too much stuff happening in tags. If yours meanders across a bunch of topics, yeah, I'll choose the most important ones that I can condense into a single coherent reply and discard the things that won't fit into the flow.

ayrt

(Anonymous) - 2016-05-10 04:52 (UTC) - Expand

agreed with this! my current psl partner does this a lot but at almost 2 years of it I've sort of given up/gotten use to it. unless it's a drastic thing like she ignores that my character just got stabbed or something then I don't mention it anymore.

besides I'm sure I've been guilty of it too without realizing it.

literally the only time i care about that is if the short tag = a shallow reaction for a situation that warrants better or, as anon above me said, a missing part of the tag. nobody needs three paragraphs for chitchat.

then again, ninetynine percent of the time i'm probably the one snubbing.

the only time i felt genuinely snubbed was when my rp partner consistently did only 1 to 3 word tags at me

it's like, yeah, i can work with this, it's an interesting challenge

but man, the chagrin i felt

and admiration, because damn, i don't know how they did it - they may have been brief, but i still had hooks to use. goddamn.

no

UNLESS it's a boring contentless tag. tag length doesn't necessarily bear on how interesting the tag is, i've known people who can pack information into tags of all length

generally my longest tags are in psls though and the answer is a resounding no for that because 1) if i'm psling with someone i am already confident in their quality 2) i've had enough psls dropped on me that i don't care how long the tag is as long as i get one back

not really, unless i put a lot of effort into something and it's clear in their tag they didn't.

i don't need a 5000 story, but if i put in two paragraphs i'd like more than "..."

Not based on length, no. If their tag was clearly written without much thought put into it in a thread where there should be (chitchat threads are exempt from this), then I might feel snubbed, but I feel like the length itself should be based on what is appropriate for the reply, not my tag's length.

As long as their reply actually moves the thread forward, no. A lot of words =/= a better tag.

If they don't provide any forward momentum, then I get annoyed.

depends. did they respond to most of the points I gave them? did they give me something to respond with? if so, no. idgaf if they match my level of introspection because that's not actually something people can easily respond to.

on the other hand if they just had their character say "uh huh" and give me shit all to respond with I'm pissed.

depends: do they regularly do this, or does it just hapepn sometimes, the way it does to everyone? how big is the difference? is it three paragraphs to half a sentence, or three paragraphs to one? does it give me something to work with?

usually, unless the tag is aggressively lazy and pointless, i don't care.

As long as they're giving me something to respond to, I'm happier that they're NOT pointlessly pushing themselves to match length.

Almost always no. Like the other anons, I've gotten kinda pissed off in situations before where the other player was consistently giving me one-sentence replies that were completely without substance to my several sentences. I guess feeling snubbed is the wrong term. I don't take it personally, I just assume they're a bad RPer. It's not a matter of matching my length, though, it's just a matter of giving me a good tag for the situation, whatever length it is.

The one time I actually did feel snubbed and was really angry at the other person was a few years ago (it still sticks in my memory, yes) when a character solicited mine to tell a story about something that was important to her. I had my character tell the story in detail, breaking it up into a few tags that were each about 1-2 paragraphs long (with a chance for the other player to reply inbetween each, to ask questions, derail the thread, give reactions, or whatever she wanted). At the end of this highly emotional experience for my character (who had never told anyone this story before), the tag I got in return was "Wow, that sounds interesting." That was it. I don't care if people don't want to read my character's pretentious prattling on, but you're the one who asked me to type it all out, I gave you every opportunity to stop the thread if it was boring you, and you can't even give me a facial expression or something in response?

I still mad. This person is just a shitty rper all around, though, and I stopped even trying to tag her after that.

Not unless they're replying to all my zesty, meaty tags with "ok" or some shit. Some characters are reticent. Some writers can get a lot across in a few words. And having been on the other side of the equation where there simply wasn't anything else to say, it's a silly thing to worry about. Keep the thread moving, give your partner something to play off of, and it should all be good.

Eh... I don't get mad if someone doesn't match my length, but I do get mad if they don't match my involvement. My tags tend to be on the long side because I'm working to direct the action, and get our characters moving someplace or doing something so they're not just sitting in a void chit-chatting. If you don't return the favor and only give me dialogue and bland "he shrugs & scratches his nose" type action, you can bet your bonnet I'm annoyed about it.

To be honest though I tend to be more forgiving of being matched with sprawling paragraphs of introspection with not much action still, because at least then it's obvious they're engaging with the material.

Definitely not. I'm a chronic teel deer, so I always tell my partners that they don't have to match my tag length.

no because usually when that happens i'm well aware the inequality is my fault for being a wordy fuck and/or i'm writing a tag with a bunch of set-up in it so of course it will be longer

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