Posted by Secret Admirer. on April 2, 2000 at 16:19:58:
In Reply to: Two forms of bad RP that are generally accepted, when they shouldn't be posted by Polemachus on April 2, 2000 at 16:08:37:
> These are two forms of bad roleplaying that have become particularly irksome to me as of late.
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> First, the tendency for people to do things through tells, cb, and what have you that isn't theoretically possible. By this I mean things like this:
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> Blank tells you '*tip*'
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> How do come to understand that somebody is tipping their hat gallantly just through tells? Other notable examples are *rofl*, *bow*, *nod* and so on.
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> Things like *chuckle* or *laugh* are more acceptable, at least to me, even though I prefer making it more "lifelike" by doing it like this:
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> *chuckling* *laughing* *giggling* and so on. This way it's generally understood that the person is "laughing" rather than drawing the connection to the return you get when you type in "laugh".
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> The second form is the lack of respect shown by lowbies for heroes, especially those in some kind of leadership position.
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> This is like those rank 6 lowbies that would run up to Istendil, who at that time was the most feared and respected individual in the world, only to spit on him and call him derogatory names. That's just not something you would do if this was real life.
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> That'd be like running up to the President, Mike Tyson, or the "Undertaker" and spitting in his eye. Nine times out of ten that's going to see you in a body cast and the other 10% of the time it will see you in a bodybag.
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> Now, I'm not an ominous individual by any means. I'm not particularly scary and I'll be the first to admit that I can't pk for shit, but I am the mortal lord of arguably the most powerful organization in the world and should therefore command at least a shred of respect, especially from those people who can't pk me(read lowbies cause I'm sure anybody in hero range could kill me, especially bards).
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> This post won't change anything and will likely end up in more people calling me names, saying *nod* in tells and over CB, but I figured I'd give it a try. I realize trying to appeal to the logical and common sense-producing brain matter of the collective CF player populace is largely useless, but the optimist in me likes to think I can do my part to better the world we live in.