Posted

Mar 15th 2006

Mood

Disgusted

Music

System of a Down - Revenga

Secondary mood: Seething with newfound hatred.


Alright, so I write and draw as a hobby, as we all know. Yes? Yes?

As such, I like to bounce among forums, role play ones in particular, and give myself a little writing exercise. Usually, I work somewhere along the top of my ability, so my posts are of decent quality, and express my sense of creativity and originality.

Well, apparently some people can't appreciate such things. One forum in particular has been eating at me for awhile, since I couldn't get into it. It had been put into maintenance mode from late September; early October, to late January. This I didn't know until last night, when I decided to peek into forums I hadn't been to in awhile, and I could actually look at things again.

Because of a nasty suspicion I had, I decided to see what would come up if I had searched my name on the forum, and sure enough, this came up.

I was pissed. I have no idea what the hell is wrong with these people; I'd done nothing to offend, or violate the TOS the entire time I was there. I was only there for some honest rp, which I really had to try in order to get any acknowledgement in. It was frustrating, but I took it as an exercise in making posts that people couldn't ignore if they kept to the unwritten laws of role play.

What made this more frustrating was the fact that I'd even, in my own way, asked to join the particular line I was trying to follow. They gave me the "ok" to join. So I was able to hold a place among them for a little while, albeit a small and borderline one, but still some recognition.

It didn't take long before they started responding less and less to my posts, and planning only among themselves. I don't know, but does that sound like forum role player material to you? I sure as hell didn't think so. By the time I got to the last thread they made before making everyone (but me) part of the staff and then putting it into maintenance mode, they just stopped acknowledging me altogether. All but one person, who I'd had an entire thread going that was just us, had stopped paying attention to anything I had to say.

Perhaps I'm just crazy, but doesn't it sound like it would have been much better for someone to politely ask me to withdraw from the line, rather than stuff themselves into a hole and leave me hanging out in voidspace somewhere? Is that really too much to ask?