OOC: Some thoughts on 'open' RP.

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o·pen [oh-puhn] adjective 1.not closed or barred at the time, as a doorway by a door, a window by a sash, or a gateway by a gate.

As some of you are already aware, I had an issue with tagging to a thread from a muse in a very active verse on SWS a few months ago that was marked 'OTA' ( Open to all if you're unsure what that means). After I tagged in, I was told very rudely it was not in in fact OTA, but locked to that muses verse members only. When I asked why it was marked OTA if it was verse locked, I was essentially told I was 'too stupid to understand how they played' and told to not tag that verse again.

Hey, no problem there. You can't respect the basic 'rules' of SWS thread tagging, then I don't wanna play with you anyway. Furthermore, if you can't observe that basic level of courtesy and politeness to other players who are out of the loop and ask for explanation, have fun playing with yourself. Keep it up that's all you're gonna have.

Anyway, I'd kinda forgotten about that unless someone brought the matter up until this morning. I opened my twitter stream to find a bunch of open tweets (tweets with no @username to begin them) that confused the hell out of me. It's been happening for a few days and I ignored it as something I didn't understand (because, hey, it's already been pointed out I'm stupid, right?) I scroll back to try and understand, but...nope, not getting WTF this is about. That is until it was pointed out this is some sort of new way to play.

Not to get all Dennis Miller and go off on a rant here, but...

What. The. Hell?

This begs the obvious (to someone from the outside of the verse, like me, anyway) question.

Why?

• How am I, a seemingly random passer by in the wide world of twitter, supposed to know you're in the midst of a verse specific story line if you don't utilize the @ feature?



• How am I supposed to look at your twitter page to see who you're playing with and who to follow to watch your story?



• How am I to know I'm NOT supposed to @ you if it's an 'open' comment by definition?



• How am I supposed to know you're not batshit insane and talking to yourself?



• Are the up to16 characters ( at maximum) you'd lose including @username at the beginning of a tweet THAT precious to you that you have to resort to, and this is an outsiders POV here, flat out laziness?



• Is it that hard to use a dash, a (c) or even twitlonger, Deck.ly or one of the other shortener apps out there?

Yeah, I get it's your game. YOU know what's going on and in the end that's all that really matters. I'm not saying you're wrong to want to change the way you play. It's your game. Play how you want to, but don't act all shocked and be rude in reaction when people respond with "WTF are you doing?"

While I haven't had anyone jump on my ass for interrupting a thread on twitter, I'm waiting for the day it happens. Or...rather I'm not. It's was said, in so many words, 'If you don't like this new style of playing then unfollow'.

Um...gladly. I enjoy watching RP as much as the next girl, but if you're gonna take it personal and get butthurt OOC about people not understanding your shiny new playing style then it's not worth it.


/rant.

Comments

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See, that makes so mush more sense as to why it's being done. It's a system the players doing it understand. :D I'm all about systems. I was taught (not saying it's the only way to do it) that single brackets were how that was done because it was sort of meta.

*hugs* I know you're easy going, is why I love you. I was just very put off by attitude copped by someone whenit was brought up. I actually didn't even say it. It was on my TL when I woke up and I thought 'On, someone else noticed it!" Then I read the exchange and was like O.o.

That was kinda my point RE confusion. :D Yeah, I could @ you or DM and say "Who are you playing with? I want to watch. " but that seems like a million extra steps to me.(give or take.) I follow stuff I missed by making groups on twitter (YAY, I have a system) and this fucked it all up. >.<

Honestly, I did unfollow, not the whole group but the person who made the comment of 'if you don't like it, unfollow.' Lots of people I adore are in the group like you and Claire and Peter. I don't wanna unfollow! :D