Yes, I judge you by your formatting.

[empty_room]

And the fact that all the text of your request thread is squished to the right side of my monitor, that the thing is colour coded and covered with pink hearts, green diamonds, yellow what-ever-the-fucks makes me think you are a moron. Also a sigma is not an acceptable replacement for an e. I don't want my knowledge of cyrillic making me misread

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[lefox]

THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. This seems especially rampant on forum communities (Read this as: "Gaia."). People think if their titles and subtitles look "cooler," they'll attract more people to their threads and, sadly, a lot of the time they're right.

The worst part is? You can't search for these threads! If, for whatever reason, you want to get back to that weird-symbol'd thread because, I dunno, the person wanted one of your favorite obscure fandoms or something... you can't search for it, because you have to remember each and every goddamn symbol they used.

And yeah, then there's the symbol system. "The star means I'm craving it, the smilie face means I have a plot, this other wingding means I'll chew your head off for suggesting it so why the hell I'm even listing it is beyond me..."

[empty_room]

I actually never noticed the searching problem, hah! I guess that's pretty darn annoying too.

[lefox]

It's not so much of a problem if you have the habit of bookmarking everything that looks interesting, but I generally keep my bookmark lists very, very short, so I don't bookmark everything; I just remember a few keywords in the title and look for it later. I can't do that if the title is a bizarre assortment of weird symbols. :c

[crowsilike]

I usually end up subscribing to the weirdly symbol threads, but I often drop them again because of their complicated symbol system. Just write what you're interested in and either skip the rest or list what you don't want.

[lefox]

I usually only bookmark things if I know I'm going to spend a lot of time there; I like to keep my bookmark lists short. I've found myself just looking back through all of the threads to try and find the thread I want. :c And then, yeah, I find it and realize I don't want it, anyway.

[crowsilike]

Ugh, I've been there. It's always so disappointing to me, especially when I find it and realize they don't want same thing as me at all. Or they wanted to play a spin-off.

That reminds me, I should probably trim my bookmark list.

[lefox]

EXACTLY. And because I RP on Gaia (I know, I know), I can search through hundreds of threads for hours only to be disappointed. And then I just get angry at them and myself.

I'm a little bit compulsive about bookmark lists. I cut everything if I don't hang out there.

[crowsilike]

I'm on Gaia too, so I feel your pain.

[lefox]

Every time I realize I'm 20 years old and still RPing on Gaia, a tiny part of my soul dies. I've found a ton of wonderful partners there, but for every one of those, I've also found fifty billion bad ones. :c

[_vyndasia_]

Also sympathizing, but I haven't been on there in ages.