09-05-2013, 11:35 AM
@3llusive
Fair points, though it would be unfortunate to see IC rapport "decaying" due to OOC factors such as activity.
@Eps
I appreciate the blank honesty, but for one I am not going to be writing less merely to accommodate people's attention span if I feel like I have something to say.
In regards to the perception of seriousness, that's something that most staffers may potentially suffer from OOC. IC though, I'm not so sure there's any grounds for that accusation, other than the fact that my characters are more serious than some other characters that have been popular recently. As usual, there is a clique of "chaotic-aligned" characters who drink heavily, speak crudely, and resist authority, but these kinds of characters don't interest me, and are slightly indulgent in my humble opinion. I would not like to think that they have so become the norm that any other kinds of characters are seen as "too serious", and I won't be making a character to fit in with these characters, as others have perhaps done. Perhaps I take my characters a bit more seriously than most, but I don't think they're so serious themselves as a rule: Athena may be a bit serious, but Ferenc was certainly not a serious person, and while Cervantes was probably too aloof to judge in that regard.
I'm no longer staff, so I have little room to be strict with others, and I don't exactly recall correcting people that often. Are we just talking about being a grammar Nazi, or telling other people what their characters can and can't do? Because I've been less active in that regard than some other staffers who nonetheless remain popular in RP. I have also been known to apologize when I am established to be mistaken, but I do not tend to apologize for something that may very well have been correct.
When a good deal of the RP has been people sitting in their inn rooms or inside certain buildings in the port district, it would be a bit meta if I was to pop in there. A lack of RP opportunities in common spaces that I have noticed is one reason I made the post.
As a general response to your feedback, you are known to have very strong opinions about me, which probably vary in their validity. You're not the only one, so perhaps it's still worthwhile, but while having someone level a series of personality-centered accusations toward me is a start, it's hard to address without specific examples and without it being pointed out when it happens IG. But ultimately if the OOC reputation/personality factors are what is affecting my RP opportunities, as I questioned in my OP, that does arguably speak as badly of others as it does of me. That is, I'm not going to fight an uphill battle for RP in this community if others are going to project all of their negative opinions of me onto each of my characters.
Fair points, though it would be unfortunate to see IC rapport "decaying" due to OOC factors such as activity.
@Eps
I appreciate the blank honesty, but for one I am not going to be writing less merely to accommodate people's attention span if I feel like I have something to say.
In regards to the perception of seriousness, that's something that most staffers may potentially suffer from OOC. IC though, I'm not so sure there's any grounds for that accusation, other than the fact that my characters are more serious than some other characters that have been popular recently. As usual, there is a clique of "chaotic-aligned" characters who drink heavily, speak crudely, and resist authority, but these kinds of characters don't interest me, and are slightly indulgent in my humble opinion. I would not like to think that they have so become the norm that any other kinds of characters are seen as "too serious", and I won't be making a character to fit in with these characters, as others have perhaps done. Perhaps I take my characters a bit more seriously than most, but I don't think they're so serious themselves as a rule: Athena may be a bit serious, but Ferenc was certainly not a serious person, and while Cervantes was probably too aloof to judge in that regard.
I'm no longer staff, so I have little room to be strict with others, and I don't exactly recall correcting people that often. Are we just talking about being a grammar Nazi, or telling other people what their characters can and can't do? Because I've been less active in that regard than some other staffers who nonetheless remain popular in RP. I have also been known to apologize when I am established to be mistaken, but I do not tend to apologize for something that may very well have been correct.
When a good deal of the RP has been people sitting in their inn rooms or inside certain buildings in the port district, it would be a bit meta if I was to pop in there. A lack of RP opportunities in common spaces that I have noticed is one reason I made the post.
As a general response to your feedback, you are known to have very strong opinions about me, which probably vary in their validity. You're not the only one, so perhaps it's still worthwhile, but while having someone level a series of personality-centered accusations toward me is a start, it's hard to address without specific examples and without it being pointed out when it happens IG. But ultimately if the OOC reputation/personality factors are what is affecting my RP opportunities, as I questioned in my OP, that does arguably speak as badly of others as it does of me. That is, I'm not going to fight an uphill battle for RP in this community if others are going to project all of their negative opinions of me onto each of my characters.