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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[crowsilike]

Can we add "makes the character speak in a different colour/bold/italics/all at once" to the list of annoyances? I don't care how fucking pretty it is, it' completely brings me out of the RP, because it's what I read first - usually skipping at least a paragraph's worth of text because OF COURSE it's the "literate" ones who does this. The worst was the guy who used four colours in one post - black for the main prose, green for one character, bright pink for another and yellow for the last.

I should note that I don't mind if the whole text is in a different colour/font as long as it's still readable. It's when it keeps shifting that I get annoyed.

[empty_room]

Oh, yes, that is annoying too! I always check people's previous posts before RPing with them though. :P Avoids this!

[crowsilike]

I do the same as well as checking any samples they have. Makes things a bit easier.

[blot]

Was it 4 colors for 4 characters, or 4 colors for one character? Because I'm guilty of color-coding my stuff if I'm using more than one character.

[themiskyra]

Yeah, me too. When I'm responding to multiple PCs in a post, I usually assign each character's 'quote' a different color so everyone knows who my character's addressing with a specific response. But that's the only time I use colorcoding.

[crowsilike]

By "quote" I assume you mean both their actions and speech, right? Because that I can at least understand. The ones I usually see uses one colour for action, one for A's speach, and another for B's speach and is just done to look pretty.

[crowsilike]

I wrote how it was used, but in case it wasn't clear: He used black text when describing what they were doing, and colour for when they said something... with the black text coming back as soon as they finished speaking.

[rainbowxgeek]

Because the standard system of quoting spoken words is somehow unusable...? I don't get this at all.

[crowsilike]

Me neither, especially when the ones using it consider themselves "advanced literate".

[setsu_p]

Ah, there's the problem: "Advanced Literate". If I recall correctly, the general consensus is if it's labelled as "advanced literate" one should steer as clear as possible.
(used to be on Gaia, went cold-turkey a while back)

Me personally, I don't mind colored text for speech. I use it myself. Thing is, it helps to be text that's readable on the background. Stock RED on a darkish olive-green background hurts the eyes. For that matter, so do most of the basic font colors - purple, for one...black..
If I can't physically see what your character is saying, I will miss things. It's inevitable...unless I feel like being the good guy and highlighting text. Sometimes.

Far more annoying last time I was on Gaia was the weird image headers/footers/borders and crap people were sticking in their posts. Click link -> Go make sandwich/have bath/take nap while page loads twenty posts and over nine thousand PRETTY SPARKLY SUPER SPESHUL OSSUM DESU graphics.

[crowsilike]

I know. I won't click any thread that has "advanced" or any variations of it in the title.

I'm having flashbacks to a forum that had red text on black background. Boy was that an eyesore! I only stayed for as long as I did because it was the only existing forum for a fandom.

Me personally, I don't mind colored text for speech. I use it myself.

Mind if I ask why?

I don't mind headers if they're tiny and non-distracting, but when they takes long to load, or the text is swooshed up against one side, or I can't see any difference between that and the actual post? Yeah, major annoyance.

[setsu_p]

The one place I do this, it's a forum RP (one of two still alive for that fandom that I know of, haha) where I have...currently five characters. I personally know what their various 'voices' sound like, but that wouldn't be the same to everyone else. For me, it helps to enhance that 'voice'. I try to pick colors that suit their personalities. It helps to keep things from being HUGE WALL O'TEXT if you get long-winded like I do sometimes. The speech being colored also helps set it apart from the action and general flow of the writing when you have someone who has no clue about formatting to begin with and/or doesn't use quotation marks.
Yes, we had a character once who spoke inside hyphens.

I'm familiar with the post-skimming tards, though. On another forum we have someone who does this - except I'm pretty sure she just looks for the names of her characters, because you can speak to or act at her, and if there are no names involved she won't react. That is ANNOYING.

[crowsilike]

That... actually makes sense, unlike Gaia's majority of "I like making posts pretty te-hee!" I don't mind long posts myself, but I can definitely see how others would find walls of text annoying. And I think I'd rather put up with coloured speech than try to get through bad formatting. Readability is my main priority.

Oh dear. Lemme guess, she then complains about how people aren't playing with her?

[setsu_p]

Oh, naturally... and then she complains even more because she doesn't understand why my character reacts ICly to being ignored and kinda isn't too fond of hers. That probably makes me a bit of a BRPer myself, but damnit, if she's going to keep up with the skimming behavior after we've all pointed the flaws in it out to her, well...

There was also that one incident with the misuse of '-sempai'.

[lefox]

I will never understand this. It seems lazy to me, especially when they expect you to do it, too - you know they're just skimming the thread to see what the character said, because of course that's the only important part; who cares about all of that narration crap?

Then again, I kind of twitch a little any time someone tries to tell me how to format my posts to begin with. I don't mind it as much in group RPs (they want a picture or font color, for example, to make it easier for people to keep track of who they're interacting with and where those posts are on the pages), but in one-on-ones? There's nothing to keep track of. They are interacting with me, there's nothing confusing about it!

[crowsilike]

Exactly! Which gets really hypocritical when it's the "advanced literate" players doing this.

I can kinda get if they want a smaller font in one-or-one, but if they just want me to "prettify" my posts? No way. Especially when the coding takes longer than the actual writing.