Do you read other people's roleplay material?

[BaconSoda]

I only read what I need to.

That'll be recruitment, communications and message dumps.

This is for 3 reasons mainly:

1. I'm lazy.
2. My memory is about as good at recall as a sieve is at holding water.
3. I am not confident in my ability to separate what I know about a character with how my character treats that character*

*Usually when I interact with a character I know of beforehand, at some point I ask myself "would I treat this character differently if I didn't know him/her". At this point, I already know the answer, as asking that question to myself means that the answer is yes. There is no chance for the answer to be no, because if that were the case, I would not need to ask the question in the first place.

As a related issue, I am generally annoyed by people who spam links to their RP feedback thread and/or make noises about how many views their RP threads have. My opinion is that an RP server is for people who like to RP, not for people who like their RP read by others. If you truly like to roleplay, then you wont be fussed about how many or how few people read your stuff.

Yeah, he has a good point. I most often keep RP to the game and rarely read or write things unrelated to my characters. Some stories I poke my head into (some of Virus's stories, Zapp's stories, and Zelot's stories), but mostly I don't do anything that doesn't relate to me. I'm confident that I give every player a fair roleplay treatment, but really it doesn't interest me and I know that eventually as I kill someone on my Mercenary, something about that comms message will slip it.

Also I doubly agree about the RP feedback spam. I like to RP. It doesn't neccessarily mean I like to read RP here on the forums. I really don't expect anyone to praise me for how great my story is. I just want to share it for those who might want to read.

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[8:32:45 PM] Dusty Lens: Oh no, let me get that. Hello? Oh it's my grandma. She says to be roleplay.
[12:49:19 AM] Elgatodiablo: You know its nice that you have all that proof and all, Bacon... but I just don't believe you.