1369/ RP Discussion Meme

[loveshernerds]

RP DISCUSSION MEME

How about a discussion meme? Discuss games, fandoms, things you want to RP, likes or dislikes, whatever!

No wank.
No namedropping if it's bad.
Play nice with each other.
Comments will be deleted if they stir up trouble.

Taken from here.

Comments

[anonymous]

My biggest concern right now is that when LJ switches to the new (ugly) friends page, RP on here will die even more. I love the people I play with and all my icons are here. Meep.

[anonymous]

tbh, this is why I play on both DW and LJ. I don't want to leave LJ because I've been here for so long and I've met some really great people and charcters, but it's becoming more and more difficult to even USE this site, which is making my decision to move for me. All I can say is maybe have accounts on both and try to convince your fave rp partners to do the same. I hope against hope that LJ rp doesn't die, but the environment of LJ is almost seeming to be hostile against rp'ers.

[jack_flanagan]

Hostile against rpers? :(

I'll be honest, I hardly ever visit more than here, musemostwanted, Dear Mun and SWS/SSWS so I'm not up on what's going on in LJ. ...I'm usually the last to know what's going on. But I've found I have very little drama surrounding rp this way too.

[anonymous]

A lot of the changes have seemed to be anti-rp. Taking away subject lines, having long comment threads break pages, the default way they're trying to make the icon menu the icon browsing one which is a problem for people with a lot of icons and low bandwidth. These are all legitimate issues that have been brought up in news and lj_releases with no notice or mention to them, because 'RPers are less than 1% of the lj population'.

[jack_flanagan]

Less than 1%?!! Wow! I never would've thought that. The majority of what I use LJ for has been rp for close to a decade now. I've hated the changes too. Now what you said makes a lot of sense. I really need to be more in tune. Thanks for the head's up! It's much appreciated.

[non_permaneo]

I don't know the percentage exactly, but I gather the majority of LJ users these days are Russian speakers, many of them not in the political mainstream.