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For the original? Well it's not about how well you put it together or how nice it looks. It all matters on the fact you have a butt load of costly items that others want.

RP guilds with no instructions.

I mean if you're new to the guild you read the rules right? And the rules tell you what to do and what not to do and have a nice guide of how things work.

I was invited to a guild with just some minor RPing rules of no auto hitting and activity. So I was incredibly lost. I asked the person who had invited me of how to start. She told me do a profile and sort of post a promo and post around in a backroom or something. Even in the 'rules' they say that promos are the best way to get noticed, so I did.

Then today I see that the promo I made was deleted. So now I'm really lost and there's no real place to just chat. It's all business there and I feel so...out of the loop I can't even find.

How about a monopoly.

Anyhow riding the back of my last post. I did ask about how things worked there and commented on how businesslike it felt.

The captain I guess said that he liked to keep it organized and gave me a link to another guild that contain the guide that they had been following.

My mind went "du-huh?" Then the slightly ticked off alienated -I don't give a damn who I piss off now because I'm so not going to stick around for this crap- part of me replied

"So the guide that you all go by is in a completely different guild? And there's no real way for new people to know about it other than the little note at the bottom of the guild home page about how this guild approves of that guild?"

Yeah I can see that I'm not sticking around at all.

In a way you can take that as flattery. They like her looks so much that they wish to use her image. Although if they add a description that's rather uncomplimentary to go with the image then I think it's time to rage.

But over all why not just use your own picture or describe what the person looks like?

I won't argue that one. When a guy's pants starts at the back of his knees I just want to kick him so bad.

Though I know I wouldn't post my picture up with every post. Even if I do post my picture the link it up for a couple of days max then it's gone. I don't like showing them off. But another reason is because of how shallow people are.

I once saw this picture of a lovely girl she was thick, yes, but her shape was beautiful and to die for and she was fashionable.

But people just kept calling her fat, some were nice and said she looked pretty but she'd look better if she lost weight. Some where just asses and kept going on and on about how 'fat' she was. And I've seen fat and what she was wasn't fat.

Peeves I have...

Well, For one. I hate it when people post pictures in every post. To be perfectly honest, I don't even like pictures in general because nine times out of ten, The picture people use depicts a char from an Anime, a Video game, or a fringe character no one knows, that isn't your own. The only real way to show people who you are is by drawing a picture yourself, and very very few people actually do that. I'll admit, Pictures are fine for giving an idea of what your char looks like, but even so. Beyond that first post, it has no place beside your posts. Your not the person in the picture. If you have any originality, you're different from it. Meh. In short, I don't like threads that rely on pictures and there is an ABUNDANCE of them. I like using my IMAGINATION. *rainbow*

Second. I don't mind illiterate people. If they were never very good at spelling or writing, that's perfectly fine. I won't hold that against anyone. But this site DOES revolve around writing, and if you wanna post, you should at least make the attempt to get better at it, or spell check your posts, or do SOMETHING. Posts like this...

"i went t the store and talkd to u. Ther wuz cat on d way."

Drives me up the wall. I'm not a stickler. You can misspell something, make a grammatical error, and stuff like that. It's understandable and acceptable. As long as it was an ERROR. Not every post should be that way! =_=

Third. This one takes some explaining. There are threads out there that tie in with other threads. Like, One will be in Barton and one Durem, and people will switch between the threads and tie the RPs together. There are plenty of threads like that.

Recently, I've grown very annoyed with people who hop from thread to thread every two to three days. They come to one thread, stir up huge stuff RP wise, then skip off and leave the rest of us hanging like "Wtf? Do we... do we go back to what we were doing...?" Then by the time you're done clearing that up... THE PERSON IS BACK ALREADY AND DOING IT AGAIN. o_O That's BS.

Fourth. People who start threads... then don't stick around to see it through. If you start a thread and despite your attempts, it stays pretty inactive... That's okay. I can understand that. But when you start a thread, people start posting, and suddenly you're missing completely and forever? That's a jerk move. It really is.

That's all I can think of off the bat. Gimmie time and I'll add more.

Duly noted and fixed. When I'm relaxed, I pay less attention. I've actually been making that mistake for a long time, and since I never use "You're" that much, I suppose it keeps slipping my mind. =P No one's perfect.

I will however reiterate that the peeve regards people who don't even make the effort to show at least a minor amount of skill. I try to make every post as legible as possible even when I'm not paying much attention, and even with those errors in my last post, I'd like to think that it was at least readable. Not going for any writing award, just trying to get the point across which I think I've done. wink