After having it broken down as it was above, I find that I am in agreement with basically everyone that's posted here. Â Elite is a positive word but being 'elitist' is not a good thing (is basically what I considered as just being rude/jerky).
I think a lot of people that have roleplayed in MMOs a long time have run into this elitist behavior- I had 2 MRPs of mine put up on one of those 'bad' sites. Â The funny thing was, one was held up as a 'perfect example' of good RP, the other was lambasted.
I think I've had some really negative experiences with people demanding that everyone be treated exactly the same and that exercising one's preferences for certain types of RP (single-line, multi-paragraph, not emoting thoughts/emoting thoughts as a fourth-wall breaking joke) is the sign of an elitist, bad roleplayer when really it's just that certain things don't appeal to me. Â This attitude (everything is right and you're bad to not accept it) is what makes me feel that wanting to be elite is not bad, what makes it bad is if you attack/put down/laugh at or otherwise denigrate people because their way is not your way.
I'm really, really impressed with the responses to this thread. Â It's the most mature I've -ever- seen people be about this topic and I've been doing this for a long, long time. Â I'm really happy to see that people are discussing this and not calling other people out as big bad meanie-heads- as I'm sure some people are accustomed to seeing when this topic comes up in other MMORP communities (WoW, I'm looking at you). Â I definitely think this is the right community for me.
*throws love and confetti all over this thread*
I think a lot of people that have roleplayed in MMOs a long time have run into this elitist behavior- I had 2 MRPs of mine put up on one of those 'bad' sites. Â The funny thing was, one was held up as a 'perfect example' of good RP, the other was lambasted.
I think I've had some really negative experiences with people demanding that everyone be treated exactly the same and that exercising one's preferences for certain types of RP (single-line, multi-paragraph, not emoting thoughts/emoting thoughts as a fourth-wall breaking joke) is the sign of an elitist, bad roleplayer when really it's just that certain things don't appeal to me. Â This attitude (everything is right and you're bad to not accept it) is what makes me feel that wanting to be elite is not bad, what makes it bad is if you attack/put down/laugh at or otherwise denigrate people because their way is not your way.
I'm really, really impressed with the responses to this thread. Â It's the most mature I've -ever- seen people be about this topic and I've been doing this for a long, long time. Â I'm really happy to see that people are discussing this and not calling other people out as big bad meanie-heads- as I'm sure some people are accustomed to seeing when this topic comes up in other MMORP communities (WoW, I'm looking at you). Â I definitely think this is the right community for me.
*throws love and confetti all over this thread*
