A few things.
Requirements for activity. I'm an adult with a job. I reply when I can.
TeacherxStudent threads.
Writing example. It just rubs me the wrong way.
For Character Sheets when they specify it has to be a photo, it can't be a drawing. I dont' know, just seems to be an uneccesary...
I had someone ghost me who I thought was a friend, we chatted about non-RP stuff, I knew a bit about her family and then she ghosted me. It actually kind-of hurt, but after that I've grown a thicker skin. I really don't bother to get to know my RP partners till after awhile and after I know the...
There was a RPer who wanted to do MxM with the children on stranger things, they saw I liked the show and contacted me. I told them I was not into that and it weirded me out to do that with children and their response was more than hostile. Lol. They got a temp ban and I still see them...
I really haven't had much luck with discord RPs. Only with one or two people I'll reply constantly but most people I like to take my time replying, so when i take my sweet time I've had several individuals become...annoying.
If I'm in a RP seeking discord I realize people tend to delete...
I've been ghosted by more people when my characters (for romantic RPs) are POC, I've noticed. Not sure what commentary to add to that but take that for what you will.
DeviantArt, Chicken Smootie, Some sort of lion king site?, another vague RP site I abandoned, but it was one of those that made you create character pages, balto source.
I use Skype and this site to RP. I tried tumblr but I find it hard to get RPers on there. -shrug-
Unless the character is a kid and their relationship is with another kid as a friend or an adult in a parental manner I tend to not use minors. But when I do it tends to be the offspring of a character.
I either have my werewolves be feral if there are enough other characters to support it, or just werewolves that can shift easily. It just depends on what will make the RP flow better.
I have always wanted to comment on a thread like this, I just didn't want to make it myself.
I used to be those 16 year olds who would RP with adults and from my experience I wish I didn't really, but that line of experience won't be the bulk of what I have to say.
it's really weird to have...
In my experience in all of my years of RPIng, its mostly the latter of what @geeking out out described, gatekeeping. Usually, if someone posts so little, they have tend to have a very poor understanding of writing in general, soeven asking them to churn out several paragraphs wouldn't "fix"...
I don't do group RPs for that reason, and even 1x1 is like that.
I just think it's the nature of it. Sometimes you don't click with a partner and the RP just isn't working. I prefer to let people know that I don't want to RP because it's considerate, but some people want to avoid hard feelings...
I'm a bit curious as to why you thought google searches were public domain, but no, a fair amount of them are not. I know there is a way to search specifically public domain images, but I imagine for the purpose of RPing they would not entierly be useful.
As an artist, I know some of my work...
I get asked to play a guy a lot but that doesn't bother me. I don't have any strong preference to playing towards a character's gender. I think if you play both it makes you a stronger writer, in the same way that branching out your character pool's diversity does.
On site:
I have three very active ones, I try to reply once a day or once every few days.
Two semi-active ones*.
total: 5
On skype:
One very active
4 semi-active
One being discussed.
total 5 or 6
If I get a bunch of responses in one day I will only reply to the first few or the first few + the...