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The OOC RP Discussion Meme

[How To]

1. Discuss anything to do with RP-ing - Plots you want to try out, characters, characterization, head canon/fan theories, game ideas, meme ideas, fic and fanart ideas, AU and crossover ideas, Verse/PSL ideas, etc, etc. Game and comm promotions are fine, too.

2. Comments can be anon or non-anon, it's up to you.

3. Please do not bash, flame or name drop any mun or game in a negative fashion. No wanking, please!

4. Have fun!

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Well... no shit. Of course people gossip. That's never going to change.

My issue with the anon community is that it's highly public, so instead of two or three people from your game gossiping about you, it's everyone in all of DWRP, so people who before would never know about what you did can now see it an get to judge you, and also, while people will always complain about something, I do feel like the constant low-level vitriol at wankgate encourages people to bitch and "vent" about things that wouldn't have occurred to them as a problem before they spent so much time in such a negative environment.

I'm not someone who thinks all anons are evil. Obviously, or I wouldn't be anon now. I'm someone who used to spend a lot of time at wankgate until I realized it was making me miserable and killing my RP drive. You might say "so don't go there", well, I don't anymore. But I would bet I'm not the only one in this boat and tbh I think the RP community would be better off going back to having a once-every-two-months anon meme. I don't think that's likely to happen, but I do think it would be for the best.

I also think we could use some central space to hang out that isn't anon, or at least isn't a hate community. I don't think a hate community being the central area where RPers hang out and socialize is a good thing.