Leaving out the obvious taboos (metagaming, godmodding, Mary Sues, etc.), other expected things like incomprehensible spelling and frequent typos, and general rudeness or thoughtlessness... my biggest RP pet peeve is with purple prose and walls of text. I don't like people who think the merit of their RP is based on how long their posts are. Being concise is one of the most basic rules of writing; trying to be fancy and do otherwise isn't good writing, it's the very antithesis of it.
I don't like when people add pointless fluff to their posts to try to make them longer. I don't like people who use figurative language in ways that don't make sense (Example: I recently ran into someone who used the phrase, "The sadism roamed vivid that night." What??? What does that even mean?). I don't like when people go out of their way to use large and/or obscure words that are used incorrectly or that in context are not as effective or sensible as smaller and more common synonyms. Stop. Just stop. You're not showing off your 1337 English skills; you're making a fool of yourself.
I'd have to say my next pet peeve is not with anyone's writing as all, but a common pet peeve people have with the writing of others that's not surprisingly been mentioned here: inner dialogue. Now I understand people who go overboard and I am as irked by it as anyone else. No, I don't need to know your character's secret thoughts on everything that happens in the RP, I don't need to know what your character had for breakfast, I don't need you to narrate your character's life story to me in the middle of an RP post.
BUT I do see people cry "omg inner dialogue is so annoying my character isn't a mind-reader!!!" the moment insight is given into a single thought from another character. Chill out, no one expects your character to be a mind-reader--quite contrarily, they just expect you to have the sense and decency not to metagame that information. The goal of role-play should be to entertain the reader/writer on the other side of the screen, not relay exactly what his/her character should know and nothing more.
Someone relaying his/her character's inner thoughts or other things your character may not be able to perceive is usually done just to give you, the role-player, some insight into who that character is and the bigger picture of the role-play. It's great not for just entertainment and to sate your OOC curiosity, but for plotting out ideas for the role-play. Not to mention, it can still be useful IC. Knowing what's going through a character's head can give you some idea what type of facial expression, body language, or voice they may be using, and just help you know what sort of "vibes" your character may be picking up on.
I don't like when people add pointless fluff to their posts to try to make them longer. I don't like people who use figurative language in ways that don't make sense (Example: I recently ran into someone who used the phrase, "The sadism roamed vivid that night." What??? What does that even mean?). I don't like when people go out of their way to use large and/or obscure words that are used incorrectly or that in context are not as effective or sensible as smaller and more common synonyms. Stop. Just stop. You're not showing off your 1337 English skills; you're making a fool of yourself.
I'd have to say my next pet peeve is not with anyone's writing as all, but a common pet peeve people have with the writing of others that's not surprisingly been mentioned here: inner dialogue. Now I understand people who go overboard and I am as irked by it as anyone else. No, I don't need to know your character's secret thoughts on everything that happens in the RP, I don't need to know what your character had for breakfast, I don't need you to narrate your character's life story to me in the middle of an RP post.
BUT I do see people cry "omg inner dialogue is so annoying my character isn't a mind-reader!!!" the moment insight is given into a single thought from another character. Chill out, no one expects your character to be a mind-reader--quite contrarily, they just expect you to have the sense and decency not to metagame that information. The goal of role-play should be to entertain the reader/writer on the other side of the screen, not relay exactly what his/her character should know and nothing more.
Someone relaying his/her character's inner thoughts or other things your character may not be able to perceive is usually done just to give you, the role-player, some insight into who that character is and the bigger picture of the role-play. It's great not for just entertainment and to sate your OOC curiosity, but for plotting out ideas for the role-play. Not to mention, it can still be useful IC. Knowing what's going through a character's head can give you some idea what type of facial expression, body language, or voice they may be using, and just help you know what sort of "vibes" your character may be picking up on.
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