Recently I have seen a LOT of posts that are very short, and have very little content to them. I have seen so much, that despite the way I have liked keeping things, I have decided to create a minimum word / sentence count for all RP posts. The new rule is as follows:

http://s4.invisionfree.com/Arda/index.php?...indpost&p=39626

This limit isn't a hard one to reach, an easy task, but it is needed. So make sure you are keeping track of your word count now, as the moderators and I are watching to make sure this rule is enforced from now on.

Sounds good. :uh huh:

Sweet action

FINALLY!!! YIPPY! :lol:

Sounds good to me. Makes it more fun when people post more then a sentence. :)

>.< But sometimes it's hard to think of what to post.

Oh well. ^^

Good Idea.

*wah* So this is what got me warned, huh? I'm really sorry and it won't happen again...

Ok, I agree...this will be fun...*^_^*

it is good! for those of you who struggle to think of stuff to write; read Loths topic on improving your RPing skills.

Actually, this has been kind of needed for a while, and I appreciate the effort in enforcing this Loth. It was getting discouraging to have a thread destroyed by a not so subtle short post. Looks like this will remedy that, and I appreciate it again and thank you for instututing it.

....you know for people who don't want to count their words, theres a javascript word counter that you can use as a footer, just a suggestion, but still this is a good rule! Its hard to keep a topic alive with short posts.....*tackle hugglez Loth*GOOD RULE!!

I'm already seeing some good changes cuz of the rule ^_^ thanks Loth! hm, I was going to tackle hug her too but I didn't want to push it, your so brave go you, wooot! :w00t:

All you have to do is type the response in Microsoft Word and use their word count and spell/grammar check...

ooooor if you have an old computer and it has word perfect and not microsoftword like me for instance...go to file, propertys then click on the information tab. It will tell you how many pages you have, how many words there are, how many sentences, how many words in a sentence, ect

^_^ hope this helps

hmmm....
But what if the post we're putting up is only a few words because we're depending on someone else for what happens next?
How can we post thoughts words or actions we don't know will happen yet? :unsure:

well, either you need their post so much that you simply don't reply or you do reply and talk about what your character thinks and what kinds of things they're doing. Give an example (and maybe move your question to the help section instead?) and maybe people will be able to help you better.

either way its a much needed rule realy short posts bug me, ive seen ones with barly a sentence, its not enough to rp with a good paragraph i feel is minimum but 25 words should be easy enough for people to reach and it should keep posts to a good length

if it were me I would make the rule diffrent...people would have to make 500 words muhahahaha...that would be fun...but then it would get old then people would stop rping...so yeah I guess 25 is reasonable...

I've seen it on other rp's where someone makes a huge post with 4 long paragraphs about how they skillfully lunged at there enemy then someone replies with one sentence "He dodged teh sord n stbbed him in teh hart." Enough to make anyone cringe...

That would be thorgrim

Notice the WITCH he put in capitals is the wrong one. It should have been which. And has he heard of a little word called punctuation?

come on don't be so hard, maybe if someone would tutor some of these newbies there would be no problem...*looks for a tutor* he should check out the tips to improve your rp skills...then maybe someone could help him with spelling...doesn't windows word or omething like that help, with spell checker and english?

I have google toolbar which I use to spell check my work (If I remember). It's free to download and really useful.

Yeah google rocks, but I wub my word perfect : 3

lol i just you my email spell checker but i realy am sick of rpers who think its ok when they most about a sentence... its not! most of us put a little effort into it

Thorgrim posted a 14 word RP, his lowest yet. His average is about 20-25 words per post, which is much too short in a topic that averages 3-4 paragraphs

It's too bad that 14-word post was in MY topic.

*cries*

But yes, someone needs to knock some sense into a couple new RPers. I'd probably get too angry too quickly if I ever attempted it. -.-

Tips to Improve RP Skills FTW!

Ita those are my feelings exactly.

I'll admit that I am the king of short posts, but I am careful in my word choices to be as descriptive as possible. I also use Word or some other document program for spelling. This would help push the people to be more creative or make the lazy ones leave.

It really shouldn't be that hard for anyone in junior-high and up. If any newcomer (is that politicly correct?) would like some help other than "the tips" then I would be willing to run a special quest giving out tips as we go along. Note if anyone decides to do this don't get mad if I criticize you.

P.S. I can also think of some older members who would need this, but for the sake of being polite I will not give names.

crappy-posters annonymous? ^^ Hopefully if people continue to report when others post crappy single sentence posts they'll get a clue.

I use to hail from that club

well it doesnt seem to be hard to keep up with the advanced one (im not even that) but my posts are rubbish though i have to admit

I shall teach you young grasshopper

Is it just me or when I read through my posts they don't seem to flow very well? Is that just because I read them or is it because they don't flow? Be honest please.

It's not bad. It could be better, which is true for everyone; but it's not bad.

Yeah no one is perfect... :wub: well there is one guy who is close to perfect..ahem..but no one is perfect and everyone could learn a little from everyone ^_^

:huh: Who would that be?

I agree with you that everyone can learn something from someone else

Hm, well there are alot of people who are near perfect (Yumi btw) hmm but the person I was talking about was...tehehehe :wub:

I'm too shy :angel: