The Staff doesn't give public notices for Shoutbox bans. I made a brief notice that you were banned in the Shoutbox itself. Here are the offending comments.
Gytrash
Lyth, I'll stop hating you when you stop being hateable, having the least sensible RP and least likeable RP since CamTheMan isn't a great achievment.
Gytrash
His RP was here's my massive powerful dong, so suck it.
Gytrash
Lyth's RP is It took me a whole three days to get from no dong to powerful dong, so suck it, such hardship, many difficulties, wow. Big plans :3
Gytrash
Cam was the guy that got banned for being someone that, in an unprecedented turn of events, the whole community disliked because of his trolly and toxic RP and forum presence
Gytrash
Lyth seems to be sprinting in that direction after his hero at the moment.
(02-14-2015, 02:06 PM)Jihadjoe Wrote: Because it would just be awful if someone treated your tastes and preferences in the same way, right? Oh, wait...
Tastes and preferences =/= RP
I try to keep as much of me out of my role play as possible, I'm playing a role, I'm not inserting me into the game world, so yes I want people to criticise my RP especially if it makes no sense. Yes I was probably too harsh, because I got mad, and I'll most likely apologise for it when I've finished cooling off because I'm still pretty steamed about it.
(02-14-2015, 02:06 PM)Jihadjoe Wrote: Because it would just be awful if someone treated your tastes and preferences in the same way, right? Oh, wait...
Tastes and preferences =/= RP
Well... Any judgement of RP quality will be a subjective one. Your personal standard of what constitutes quality roleplay is entirely down to your personal taste and preference. What you regard as crap, others may regard as a work of genius. This is the problem with making quality judgements on anyone's creative output - be that in art, literature, roleplay...
There are certain things which are more definite. So for example you could call something out on powergaming, metagaming and so on... But level of "quality" (whatever that means) or even the level of plausibility? Everyone will have their own standards and preferences on this.
It's not that one cannot voice these preferences when commenting on other people's work... But the way that you do so has to be open for the possibility of you being wrong, you not understanding the work, or the weight of opinion to be against your view. Making a statement like "This work is shit" serves no purpose. Saying "I do not like this work because of X and Y specific things in the content" opens up the possibility for discussion on it. Harshness has nothing to do with it. The problem is that you think you're right, someone else is wrong, and are being rude about it - all despite the fact the entire area of discussion is saturated with subjectivity and arbitrary value judgements.