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(01-11-2016, 01:35 AM)Alderique Wrote: Even in my own experience, it took a long time of actively including myself in chat to reach a point where I was recognized by others. For a while I would chime in and get ignored completely. Unfortunately this is a common occurrence in RP communities, and I kind of anticipated something like that would happen from my previous experience.It happened to me too, a.k.a. Tortles!
Its not fun, very much otherwise. I think its just something that happens in most communities, whether virtual or not. Developing friendships takes effort and time. And, above all, patience and perseverance. Sometimes life sucks, but just trying to get there is half the experience.
I don't see many bad things in our community. Plenty of imperfections, of good intentions that go unfulfilled, of people biting off more than they can chew, of new people falling through the cracks. Of people not succeeding...
But I think most people do the best they can to be friendly and helpful to at least some extent. All in all I cannot say that I am dissatisfied with the RPC, or Balmung RP (I have no experience with other FF RP I am afraid). Criticism here and there may be helpful, but I felt like most of this was off-the-mark at least in my experience.
Nonetheless, Momo always strikes me as the earnest and strident sort. I take it all as honest personal assessment if nothing else
Last thing: I also agree that the criticism of responses to "what about this character concept?" questions really leaves no option. Anything critical, even if constructive, cannot be side-stepped. Maybe it is a matter of "do what I like or else I'll ignore you", some of us don't really want to have sparkle-vampire demi-gods of edgitude intruding seriously into our canon character perception. We all have our ways of dealing with such clashes of imagination: simply ignoring is honestly one of the more gentle and least passive-aggressive. Sharing that sort of advice, "oh yes, by the way, this idea is so off-the-wall bonkers that some people are liable to not want to interact with you" is not strictly passive-aggressive chest-thumping, its actual advice on what reactions may be (the poster's included).
If we're to refrain from that sort of thing we're not actually able to do "any good", but instead are resigning ourselves to watching the train wreck. I don't see kindness or community in that.
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