THE ANON RP CRIT MEME

[anothermememaker]

THE ANON RP CONCRIT MEME
FOR ANONYMOUS RP CONstructive Critiscism & ADVICE

ANOTHER MEME REQUESTED FROM ANON (ALL DETAILS SUPPLIED BY ANON)   Have you ever wanted to give someone concrit but the player doesn't have a place for you to provide it? Not everyone has HMDs, and not everyone posts to concrit/advice memes. Not everyone wants advice on their play style. But you really have something you want to say, and need to just get it off your chest and hope they might see it and take it on board. Or maybe other players know they're doing something that's not quite right but don't have the courage to ask for advice? This is the place for you. People look for concrit all the time but often feel embarrassed asking for it or nervous about the replies being aimed at them. Here, you supply anonymous critique and players can read all the advice and even take some of it on board for their own use. It is a place to offload something about a player, character, or even game that has been bothering you, and a way to offer advice on things you feel some people might benefit from taking on board. No flaming, no wank, no character bashing, no fandom bashing, no game bashing, no aggressive references, no naming and shaming CONCRIT ONLY RULES: ▀ Please don't namedrop or post any specific identifiers that will reveal who the person you are critiqueing is. This is ANON ADVICE, not naming and shaming. ▀ You can, however, reference traits of the character if said traits are what you are critiquing, ie. "Your character has diabetes, but foaming at the mouth really isn't a symptom of that" or "Your character really wouldn't eat a side of bacon as a pregnancy craving because she's Jewish and references Kosher in canon". ▀ This is for CONCRIT only. Constructive Criticism aimed at someone specifically without actually pointing fingers at them for doing it wrong or having flaws. You're just giving advice on where they're going wrong and how to improve. They may not see it, or recognise it as aimed at them... but then again, they might too. Or someone else making the same errors might see it and utilise your advice. ▀ Use aliases for character names or fandoms, if necessary (ie, Person A, Person B, Fandom X, Fandom Y, etc.) They may not even know it is being aimed at them, but there is always a chance people will read your crit and take it on board. ▀ Other taggers can reply to your anon crit posts with their own opinions or agreement/disagreement on your advice, but please refrain from making it a shit fight. Rember: it's CONSTRUCTIVE critisism and personal opinions are just personal opinions. Not everyone will agree with your advice or opinion. ▀ If you feel something is aimed at you and you're willing to take the advice on board, feel free to ask for further advice or ways to improve. ▀ If you feel something is aimed at you, but you're not sure and you don't care for the advice anyway? Scrollbar is your BFF. ▀ No replying to crit threads asking for "deets" or asking if it is specific people. ▀ Even if you do recognise who the crit is about, please be classy and don't reply with "OMG I KNOW WHO THAT IS! LOL! YOU'RE RIGHT , THEY SO BAD!" That isn't being constructive, it's being a jerk.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Nobody's posted yet? I'll start! Please, please do spellcheck before you hit that post button! We all typo once in a while and that's completely okay, but spelling and grammatical errors can be very distracting, especially if they show up more than once in almost every tag.

+1

[(Anonymous)]

This. Also going to add, spellcheck means more than just hitting the button. Read over your stuff!

[(Anonymous)]

Yes. Spell-checking your writing is the seriously easiest thing to do (afaik, all browsers come with one built-in and if not Dreamwidth has one) and it can improve a person's writing so much.

[(Anonymous)]

Using 'should of' instead of 'should have'

Please learn that difference. It's such an annoying thing to encounter anywhere, especially in tags that are otherwise well-written.

[(Anonymous)]

This. Also people misusing 'peaked' in place of 'piqued' throws me off so bad.

[(Anonymous)]

I never remember how much that one pisses me off until I see it. Another one that bugs me is using 'lead' for 'led'. Led is a word, people. Lead is 'to lead' someone to a destination. It's also for the component metal, lead. Led is 'you led a person from the room', not 'lead them from the room'.

[(Anonymous)]

Caveat: This CAN be part of your character's speech patterns, obviously, if they're the sort to make that error.

[(Anonymous)]

I realised you're probably popular and important within your own little clique and group of people you frequently tag with. But when you tag people not so familiar with you, please understand that just because you have injected a pile of special abilities or traits into your character for shock value that makes you "damaged" or "not normal", when you tell strangers that not every stranger is 1) going to care, 2) be shocked, or 3) particularly think you are as important and popular as those in your clique do.

You don't need to get defensive or uppity when people don't respond shocked to the traits you feel everyone should be impacted by, nor do you need to keep referring to them in following tags in hopes they might eventually get shocked so you can act like it's no big deal.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm late to this meme but yes this this this. It's happened to me a ridiculous amount of times and it's obnoxious.

[(Anonymous)]

Simple. Show, don't tell.

[(Anonymous)]

+5 favor to you, anon.

We can't tag back if we have no information on what is up.

[(Anonymous)]

On the note of words.

Please don't use fair when you mean fare.

[(Anonymous)]

I always get a laugh out of bear and bare. Especially in smut threads.

[(Anonymous)]

IC =/= OOC.

Someone's character might dislike yours. They might badmouth your character in IC conversations. This DOES NOT mean the player is an uncooperative bitch, it means they're roleplaying. You know, the whole point oft he game.

[(Anonymous)]

THANK YOU FOR THIS. Oh my god, seriously.

IC =/= OOC.

[(Anonymous)]

+9000

[(Anonymous)]

This, and also the reverse. If you don't like a certain player, it doesn't mean that your characters have to hate theirs. It only means that you may opt out of playing with them, that's all.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, your character had to grow up fast due to circumstances beyond his control, and he had to do grown up things before he was emotionally able to handle them. But, the rest of the time, he acts like a petulant two year old, and he's almost twenty now. After dealing with various things that could eat him, hasn't he learned anything or better yet, grown up? Character development is your friend, and the zomg angsty brat!,!111 persona has gotten really old.

[(Anonymous)]

Caveat: If all of that ^^ is canon, but your character still acts like a petulant two year old... but that's his canon development. If the writers can't write the character to save their lives, and you're sticking to canon development/behavior outside of a specific verse, then I think that's something completely different.

My character is written in canon as a total ass. The only thing he's stopped is his outright bullying. When I throw him in a verse, I develop him along with the development of the verse, but the fandom's actual writers (you know, the paid ones, although I think most fanfic writers do a better job of it) have focused more on other characters and totally FUBAR-ed my character. The canon development is my default for his character, unless there's a reason why I should adjust it - but if you're responding to a meme or a SWS or SSWS etc post outside of a specific verse, you can't deviate TOO far from canon if your muse is a canon character and they're not specifically played AU.

(Like if your muse is an aged-up canon character, and you've created a background for them that goes beyond canon time. Or if your muse is canon but has AU SPESHUL POWERS.)

[(Anonymous)]

If we all could put the same amount of energy we put into plurk, tumblr, and any other social site that we did into our role playing, we may actually finish our threads. Even half the effort would be a great pay off.

Sincerely, a grumpy anon.

[(Anonymous)]

Please don't sit back and have me (or any other person) lead the thread! Carrying the plot of any thread is exhausting with two characters on my back.

[(Anonymous)]

By the same token, don't just pick up the entire plot and run with it. You're roleplaying, not writing fanfic. Save some room for me to write stuff, too!

[(Anonymous)]

Stop doing over dramatic shit designed to elicit a bunch of sympathy for your woobie of a character in unrelated memes!


When your character passes out suddenly or has a terrible flashback or is gravely ill or seriously wounded for some reason RELATED TO THE MEME this is fine. Hurt comfort memes, medical themes, assistance themes, etc are all perfectly acceptable places for you to pull off something really dramatic.

But if your character is just talking to mine in a general social scenario and suddenly yours is coughing up blood or having an unprovoked fucking breakdown that is completely out of pace with the flow of the thread or the theme of the meme because you want to force my character into fawning over yours with sudden worry?

No.

I am going to stop tagging you back and so will everyone else.

[(Anonymous)]

This isn't as common a problem anymore, but something I feel should be addressed anyway.

ICON QUALITY. I'll admit I'm a bit shallow and a lot of my first impression of a player comes from the quality of their icons, even if they didn't make them. Though, if they got the icons from someone else, but those icons are the same ones that every other person who plays that character uses, that doesn't exactly earn brownie points. Doesn't count for less, but the key is effort.

And on the subject of effort, I need to address something. For those few brave souls who can't find anyone who's already made icons of their character but is undeterred, it's great that you want to make your own, but do it smart. When you're resizing an image, remember to lock the aspect ratio. Don't stretch something to fit the square - it'll show and it will not look good. It's not worth having the image stretched to have it fit. If you MUST have it, it'd often be better to just shrink it than stretch it so it looks weird. If shrinking it makes the quality even worse, then just give up on it. Find a better source image or find a better expression to use entirely.

Also, note that when you save an edited jpg file, most programs automatically save it at 90% quality or thereabouts, which adds artifacts and makes it look weird. Either save it as a png file or use "save as", which usually lets you bump the quality up to 100% instead.

Keep in mind very little of this really applies to people who use PBs or real people or whatever. I don't really pay as much attention to them, to be honest. :S

[(Anonymous)]

For the love of all that is holy, RESEARCH YOUR STORYLINES. I mean, okay, if something occurs in London and you've never been to London, then maybe you won't get the transit or the streets or whatever correct. But if you're roleplaying having appendicitis or a real-life situation, something that can easily be researched with five minutes and a search engine - dear lord, please research it.

+10000

[(Anonymous)]

Seriously, people, it's not hard. And if you're going to do something with withdrawal symptoms, know that withdrawal from different drugs is actually, you know, different.

[(Anonymous)]

Dear everyone who has ever run a pregnancy plot: please read this.

And figure out a few of the important things beforehand, like when the lady starts showing or what will happen when labor begins.

[(Anonymous)]

This x1,000,000.

While the two things you mentioned above can vary, there's one thing that pisses me off more than anything else.

Unless you have SUPER SPESHUL SCIENTIFIC EQUIPMENT that hasn't been invented yet, the only way to determine gender before 17+ weeks (and 17 is on the early side) is through amniocentesis. Don't have an amnio? Sorry, but you don't know that your kid is going to be a boy/girl/hermaphrodite when you're only 7 weeks pregnant.

Bonus points if you do a pregnancy plot and you RP with someone who is a parent, and you ask them questions.

Head. Desk.

[(Anonymous)]

You don't have to play every character an actor plays. Yes I know he suddenly became popular because he's a superhero. It's just crazy when it seems you just play them for the pb and to throw them at that one fandom all the time.