Comments on: Roleplay Pet Peeves

By: Eve

Eve — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:55:22 +0000

@elf_fu — good gods, totally. As I find myself more pinched for time, I find that I really want to spend more time actually roleplaying, not screwing around OOC. How does anyone have all that time for the behind the scenes BS?

@Lilithiel — I’ve seen your Longpost and while it’s pretty caustic, some of that needs to be said. If you want to put it up here as a guest post, feel free.

@Bad Juju — I agree. That “It’s Us Against Them” attitude stinks up so many internet communities and gets old very fast in RP groups. I would love to see the drama left IC. I understand not everyone can get along, and it’s human nature to form cliques, but yeah – I’ve seen those RP Illuminati conspiracies and they blow my mind.

By: Bad Juju

Bad Juju — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:06:32 +0000

I’d have to say my biggest pet peeve is the whole “Us vs. Them” attitude people take on. The politics get disgusting. People are always so quick to form factions and suspect people of forming factions against them. It’s pathetic internet behavior at its worse. I don’t know how many times in my time RPing I’ve seen drama rama erupt over someone suspecting that there is some underground faction or group that is gunning for them/doesn’t like them/plotting their demise. I can’t stand seeing when people take this attitude. I hate it even more when other people making the accusation that they’re being “black balled” because a super sekrit underground group of RP Illuminati have put the word out. I can’t stand all the back-biting bullshit that arises from people feeling the need to form these OOC groups, and then using them to fight/create drama/plot against other “groups”.

I also can’t stand players who think that they are special just because they have some sort of “power” when it comes to RP. People who think that their characters RP popularity actually amounts to anything in the real world.

Oh, and my biggest pet peeve right now is actually very specific. I can’t stand the fact that during the whole Slavery drama Brutin was exposed to be one of the biggest blenders I’d ever encountered in my time RPing yet everyone turned a blind eye to it. Yet a few months later when his blending wasn’t too appreciated by those who were on “his side”, they all acted like they hadn’t had any previous evidence that he was a blender. And a bad one at that. Way to not see the forest from the trees.

By: Lilithiel

Lilithiel — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:25:07 +0000

I could post my long list that I didn’t want to post at the forums cos it’d get me banned.

Longpost is looooooooooooooooong.

By: elf_fu

elf_fu — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:11:47 +0000

As the years go by and my role playing comes in spurts and pieces, it’s not so much what people do when they role play–it’s what they do behind the scenes WHILE role playing that really grinds my gears these days.

Some of the ooc behavior and conduct blows my mind.