Jet
Uncultured
Well, I feel like there's a simple answer to your first question. It's just about enjoyment. I personally won't enjoy sending 700-1k words to someone on average for my posts, only to receive barely 200 in return. I feel like my time is wasted, and I want someone who writes in a similar fashion to me so I may also have fun with the RP. I love reading responses that are long, and I love giving them in return. I don't hate people who do shorter responses, nor do I think of them as less or a writer, but I personally won't enjoy the RP if I'm not on the same wavelength of my partner. I'm sure many people here can agree they just want someone they can click with, so both people can happily enjoy whatever they're RPing. One person unhappy in the story means it's not a good story, and will likely lead to someone leaving the RP.
No one said you can't hang around people who tend to write more and who are more detailed than you, but this simply wraps around to my previous post. People tend to degrade those who write more for their posts as pretentious and just writing 'filler.' If someone is truly having fun with their RP and their partner, then it isn't filler to them. Sometimes people like to find joy in simple things, like their character making a cup of tea. It can be calming to write in detail why they love the smell of bergamot, or how they have such a sweet tooth they crave three scoops of sugar, all while stemming the tea slowly and watching the color bleed into the water.
It's a bit insulting to imply people who write more haven't discovered those four things you've listed. I'm positive they're well aware of them, and they're certainly woven into their RP at which their partner deems acceptable, and so-forth in return. Some people don't like quicker paced RPs, and enjoy 'smelling the roses.' They like writing about simple tasks, for whatever reason it may be. They can be efficient in their post, while also indulging in their creativity with a fellow writer.
Point is, you shouldn't judge others and call out their writing because it doesn't meet your personal ideal of what RPing should be, and how people should find their partners/groups. Perhaps these detailed writers you speak of don't wish to hang around you because you imply their writing is just 'too' much, even if you aren't directly saying it. People want to write with people who are similar to them, that's not a hard concept.
It is preference, and implying that others who writer differently than you are just 'filler writers' is just a bit rude in my taste.
1. A 200 word reply is generally shit, unless it's off of a closed end question or during quick fire dialogue in which case it's acceptable. If you're writing 1k words in quick dialogue then idk what to tell you chief, and if you ask a closed end question then what do you expect. Outside of those two scenario though, 200 words is skimp. You're doing it too, implying negatives.
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2. The point about filler is that in some scenes, if you have to write six paragraphs (as is the standard "Novella" minimum from what I saw on this thread) then you'll have to write filler some times, no matter who you are. Case in point, closed end questions ("Which way did Jack go") and rapid dialogue/action.
3. Sure you can go off with those details but you can't have them in every post without distracting the focus of some scenes, hence my emphasis on context. Winding descriptions, exposition and personality displays are great, sometimes. Other times they are a complete distraction, however in this environment you have accepted a writing minimum, so even if the best reply is a highly focused one you will have to water that down with exposition, endless internal monologue (that's somehow fit in a window of a few seconds), flashbacks and the like, and all of that will cheapen the impact of the core movement you want to convey.
4. I'm not critical of any writing style, all are valid and all work when done right. The point is, you shouldn't tell a considerable amount of writers to kick rocks because they don't fill pages like you do. Hemingway wouldn't last twenty seconds in one of these RPs despite being one of the GOATs. You should use your judgment to decide what is acceptable and what isn't, not a one size fits all, zero tolerance policy, doubly so because this is writing.
5. The vast majority of "Highly detailed writers" could have any given post edited by me and it would retain 95% of the information with better pacing and sound with only 50% of the size. So yes, I will call them filler writers. Some are not though, some are fantastic writers, albeit with a different style than me. At the same time most "concise writers" are lazy 100-200 word people that a good detailed writer could help in the same way I could help a lot of "detailed writers". The issue that I have is that most of the shitty "detailed writers" have their heads two meters up their own ass, while the shitty concise posters are usually self aware of their own limitations. That's another reason the arbitrary minimums bother me, a god tier clock maker gets the boot but some trash can that fills the page with redundant, boarderline insulting (to the reader) observations gets to stay. Also, at least a shitty short poster doesn't waste my time and moves the plot, with the shitty detailed ones I need to sit there with bleeding eyes and usually nothing happens.
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Just use context, there's a supercomputer in your head for this.
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