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if someone is playing a character with such an extreme disposition or reaction that would radically influence threading down to immediate life/death or like/dislike, they should probably be putting a one-line note in their top level.

( ooc: just a heads up, Blorbo is likely to react very aggressively to people with blue eyes in scenarios 1-2, but be okay with them in 5-7. )

but most characters don't have minor detail attributes that can make the difference between life and death in a starting thread. you're giving a 1% kind of example.

i'm giving you a 1% example because it seems you can't get the point unless we go for extremes. unless it's something "unusual" you don't care, it's like you can't get nuance

people irl react to smaller things every day. a heavy metal band logo on a t-shirt it's going to make an old conservative man make stupid assumptions. a spider-man shirt on the other hand, may prompt someone to call you "hey, nerd"

i'd say there are three types of character attributes: the items that are extremely divisive (the 1% for which someone should warn in their top level), the items that you'd typically mention in your starters (more general brushstrokes, here is a burly man with eight tentacles and a gelid blue gaze, looming over the room) and then there are the extremely detailed ones, which you can either get a nudge for or skim.

i can put down in an info post that 'my character usually dresses in modern urban clothes with occasional political slogans' and it still wouldn't cover the specifics of what they're wearing that day ( the OCCUPY WALL STREET t-shirt that might set off banker Blorbo). for that, you'd still depend on the starter.

i do appreciate your perspective, and i can see info posts are of value to you. i still think it ultimately comes down to, we wouldn't really work well as thread partners. and that's okay!

>for that, you'd still depend on the starter.

yeah but you admitted multiple times on this thread that you don't include those details on the tag

but keep fucking that chicken i guess

i've admitted i don't include the exact height of my character (or weight) in metrics, anon. i prefer to rely on adjectives.

but you're right that i'm beating a dead horse here, because it's obvious we're not going to agree, and i'm just irritating folks. so i'll leave you to the discussion, i've probably derailed it enough.

>i've admitted i don't include the exact height of my character (or weight) in metrics, anon. i prefer to rely on adjectives.

no, you literally said you only include details that stand out and don't want to understand characters are gonna pass judgment on everyday things as well like normal people do irl. and yeah of course nobody wants metrics on the tag, that's what infoposts are for. to know if my average-high character can rest their chin on your average-high character's head

but yeah carry on

i think you're both being weirdly intense about this and you're clearly better off not tagging each other, but honestly it's strange how resistant some anons are to literally any extra effort that would facilitate rp with strangers

yeah i honestly got mad and i admit derailing but the other anon put it in the best way, short and to the point: even if anon doesn't want to *use* infoposts, they should have one for those who need it, it won't hurt you to make things easier for everyone.

lol brave of you to admit that you got mad on an anoncomm

i'm anon, brave would've been if i said it logged in

but yeah anon hit a huge pet peeve of mine because i've had to recon so many threads that could've been easily avoided with an infopost

+1

it's a peeve of mine as well. i once had a meme text thread with a book character i was unfamiliar with who used a pb and didn't have an info post. the thread was instantly flirty and i didn't mind so tagged it back a few times before i googled the character out of interest and discovered that though the pb was of a person in their 20s, the character was actually a teenager. if they'd had even a basic info post i would have discovered that earlier and not tagged them back, or opted out.

that makes sense to me. i play a lot of teenage characters in shipping scenarios, so it's so second nature for me to make sure to have an info blurb on every journal with age, height, eye and hair color. i like to include a first impression of their demeanor too.

the age thing is AWFUL actors don't always play their age and drawings aren't always good at showing it either. wikis can't be trusted because if the canon is long, the age may vary depending on canon point, if that canon has a wiki at all. not to mention ocs or characters that have been in game for years (although this last one doesn't happen as often nowadays tbf)

my game had an ic hot or not post and i had to watch two players with flirty characters on plurk @ a bunch of people to check on ages, my thoughts continue to be with those poor souls

exactly! even with characters who are well known someone might be playing from a different canon point, it's so useful to have all of that info listed somewhere so you can double check who you're tagging

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