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(06-27-2015, 04:42 PM)Kage Wrote: I believe the question is coming from the viewpoint of much more organic? relationship building. Tell me if that's wrong?
There's a few of us who roleplay without the foremost intentions of starting romance but wanting that to come out in however way it does. For those who do, putting in "Prefers x race/lesbian/looking for female miqo'te" is a question of why. Yes it's nice to know if someone / their character is not discriminatory but there are some who wonder "why does it matter?"
Does that mean players need to say they are x-friendly? For some, it's a wondering of whether or not it is redundant. It rings to me of those threads where before someone may post a topic of "I'm looking to start a romance. Looking for female lalafell or ___." There were a few responses of "why not search through roleplay?"
I mean, most of the wikis have characters and interested in / sexual tension etc because they've built that out through roleplay. (stares at two highlanders who used to be at each others' throats)
I don't think it's a question of right or wrong, but trying to understand a different point of view.
Who says someone like me doesn't want it to be 'organic'? I just simply want to know if a potential RP partner may or may not be open to the idea beforehand; there's a stigma towards romance in RP these days as noted by the posts you refer to and if it saves both sides from disappointment, embarrassment and wasted time, then by all means I'm going that route.
(06-27-2015, 04:36 PM)Graeham Wrote: The harm in calling someone out for being 'homophobic' is that it might not even be true. If I claimed that someone was yelling abuse at me in the Quicksand it might be true but it might not be true - and the latter is precisely why rules against naming and shaming exist.
Again - it might be true but I've been part of this community long enough to be very skeptical of anything along the lines of 'he said, she said' because quite a few people team up to make up all sorts of rumours about people they clash with in an attempt to get back at them. Thus I prefer to adopt the role of the devil's advocate.
Edit: ...and just saw the mod post. I really should refresh the page before posting!
Hey, it never stopped people from RPing with me despite my supposedly 'infamous' yet ultimately false reputation as an ERP-crazed, lore breaking SJW and I've no reason to believe Vachir would go out of his way to lie about such a thing from what I've seen. *shrug*
Tbh I wish my dissenters were bold enough to actually say things to my face in such an open manner.