i play a lot of characters that everybody else plays. i also used to play steve regularly and was often in exactly that scenario you described. i still post. i don't care. it's a meme. people can tag me or not.
if i'm looking to tag someone and there are a couple options to pick from, i decide based on whether i've seen them and their play style around. if not, i check their journals to see if examples exist. if i have no idea who they are and there's no writing samples to distinguish them, ngl i judge them on their username, icons, and journal setup.
if the username has a bunch of underscores, the icons are all blurry or not 100x100 or are gifs and covered in dumb text, and the journal's got the default layout, i'm not tagging that one. in my experience, people who care about what their journal looks like tend to write better tags. if it's something like a texting meme, i don't care which i'm tagging, but for a thread with substance, i don't want to write a three paragraphs of setup, instropection, dialogue, and action and get something back like:
[He turns around and smiles. There's his friend!] Hey buddy.
in your examples, [1] kind of seems like a baby and i don't really understand what you're saying about [2]. maybe A didn't want to tag any Bs and preferred the other canonmate. if i was playing A and didn't want to play A with B, a whole page of Bs wouldn't make me more inclined to tag them. i'd tag who i wanted to play with.
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if i'm looking to tag someone and there are a couple options to pick from, i decide based on whether i've seen them and their play style around. if not, i check their journals to see if examples exist. if i have no idea who they are and there's no writing samples to distinguish them, ngl i judge them on their username, icons, and journal setup.
if the username has a bunch of underscores, the icons are all blurry or not 100x100 or are gifs and covered in dumb text, and the journal's got the default layout, i'm not tagging that one. in my experience, people who care about what their journal looks like tend to write better tags. if it's something like a texting meme, i don't care which i'm tagging, but for a thread with substance, i don't want to write a three paragraphs of setup, instropection, dialogue, and action and get something back like:
[He turns around and smiles. There's his friend!] Hey buddy.
in your examples, [1] kind of seems like a baby and i don't really understand what you're saying about [2]. maybe A didn't want to tag any Bs and preferred the other canonmate. if i was playing A and didn't want to play A with B, a whole page of Bs wouldn't make me more inclined to tag them. i'd tag who i wanted to play with.