Shalalong
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High schools are also places with regulation, rules and schedules. If a social hub was the only reason, then a theme park or a super mall or the first space ship launch to mars could serve as the meeting place.
Schools are only interesting if you intend on using them to teach people the logic behind something. If it's just a hollow place to serve as the place to meet someone, then why don't people actually use creativity?
Every other thread, even those without academy in the name, are school rps lol.
It's actually a combination of a social hub and as a part of wish fulfillment in a power fantasy, for example, you can have your characters be in a special environment and get praise for their actions. Something that those people are probably unable to achieve in real life, due to laziness and inability to put forth the required effort. It's quite apparent, that creativity really is not the problem because the threads of these school rps have a very low word count combined with no real sections and vague ideas of how powers, the world, and plot will actually work out in the role play.
Though, the power fantasy could be lived anywhere. It seems more appealing to do it in a scenario that you yourself have real-life experience in and a desire to relive that part of your life in a different way without the same constraints of such a world.
That said, my earlier argument still stands:
"As with practically any role play setting, there is more than enough breathing room to create an engaging role play with a unique spin put on it, assuming that the GM puts forth enough creativity and effort to actually think through everything relevant. "
The real "problem" is that these rps are used in this certain way by a certain demographic of people. In the end, this is very disheartening to see for someone who would like to see more effort being forward, but different people are allowed to enjoy the different content. Even if that content is low effort and low quality for a part of the community.
What really would need to happen is for interest checks to require a tagging system that shows the desired quality of roleplay, for example: casual for low effort posts and detailed for high effort posts. In some sections, there are deleted threads for "Prefixes", so I assume this was part of the website at one point or another?
Cheers, Shalalong.