[ SECRET POST #090 ]

[grayout.livejournal.com]

⌈ Secret Post #090 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 10 secrets from Secret Submission Post #013.
Secrets Not Posted: [1] broken links, 0 not!secrets, 0 not!fandom.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Friday, April 6th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: Here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[luzerna.livejournal.com]

2. Um, why?

9. I do that all the time. :D

[staymyadamant.livejournal.com]

7. Hmm...and I'm curious in how good you are. I love competition.

[fairyfey.livejournal.com]

5. Oh, ditto. -_- I've had that feeling a lot (though thankfully not with my current games!).

[experienced.livejournal.com]

1. Oh god me too.

7. WHY HELLO MASSIVE EGO.

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry but what does BNF mean?

[killcity.livejournal.com]

1. ♥

[hughes]

5. I won't post this anonymously since I think our hard application process isn't a secret, and I wouldn't really mind if the people who vaguely get mentioned in a very negative light here found this comment somehow:

I co-run a pretty large internet RP (landels_damned) that we do get a lot of apps for and which we DO reject quite a few for, whether due to bad writing or bad characterization. (I'm strangely proud that we have the balls to do that.) Anyway, I usually feel pretty bad about it and try to be as gentle--but honest--about the reasons why we rejected in the rejection emails, but... to be honest, sometimes the apps really are so bad that I feel relieved for being in a position where I can honestly give the apper a wake-up call about the quality of their writing or characterization. (And... sometimes I do feel bad about even that until I see the person (or people) with horribly, incredibly OOC apps trying to blow off their being rejected as us mods being overly subjective. Of course, that's totally untrue: We reject OOC apps, not apps that differ from our personal views on a particular character's personality but which could still be very reasonably based in canon.) Of course, then there are some people who are extremely polite and wonderful who ask for more details on why they were rejected so that they can form a better app for next time, which I think is very admirable. :3

In short, yeah. I feel bad most of the time, (especially if they clearly put a lot of work into the app. :/), but sometimes... it's very satisfying, especially if you find out afterwards that the player reacts immaturely and distastefully (in which case you're glad you didn't let the player in in the first place due to their wanky personality.)

Hope no one is offended by this. ^^; I guess I'm just paranoid about wank.

[(Anonymous)]

7. We have all different interpetations. Some better than others, nice to know you're confident in your abilities though. Just remember, there is always room for improvement!

[(Anonymous)]

4. I see a Hughes. :O Was this person an FMA BNF? *On the outer rim of that fandom, so doesn't know much.*

[(Anonymous)]

7. Lloyd, Raine, Regal, yeah, uh, sure, but saying you can play Colette better than anyone else is like saying you can play a kazoo better than anyone else.

But that's beside the point. In short, I hope you're speaking to some particular bad RPer, and not everyone reading your secret.

[xx-autodafe.livejournal.com]

9. Me too! <3

[kurachu.livejournal.com]

4. Being a BAMF is cooler than being a BNF any day.

[colortheory.livejournal.com]

5. I WANT A BANHAMMER. Omg.

[victorisham.livejournal.com]

2. I SAW THAT POST. And I see my (winning!) icon, too.

Makes me sad that I can't remember what the deleted icon was before it got deleted. ): Was it smutty or something?

[liltigre.livejournal.com]

1) Then you should try to! :D Many of my RL friends are ones I originally met online. Hell, I knew one friend online for two years before we realized we lived 30 miles apart. :3 We even dated for several years, and we're still good friends. Try meeting up at cons and such- it's fun to meet people like that!

5) There's a certain satisfaction in smashing a really bad OOC player with the banhammer, I'll admit. And tough apps usually are a pretty good way of weeding out good players from bad. ... actually, i don't think I've ever played in a group where apps were just accepted without thought, or ones that didn't require well thought-out applications.

9) That is entirely more fun than it should be. Though since I tend to play characters a bit similar to myself, sometimes I get some odd answers. XD

[queenie-z.livejournal.com]

7. Once I thought this about a particular person who played as Lloyd on an anonymous RP thing. Then again, there are others who I thought played him very, very well. That kid is my specialty, although I have played Kratos and Presea as well. *Points to icon as proof - life? Who needs one when you can have a CHARACTER MONOPOLY*

[klytaemnestra.livejournal.com]

4. Thank you. There's nothing that irks me more than seeing people bash BNFs that I know without having any real reason to aside from internet rumours. They're people who are just like anyone else.

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[karel]

There is a certain character that I could say this about. Only trouble is that I'm way too lazy to try to app for him even when he's open. BUT IF I DID. >D I know that comes off as way, way arrogant, but EVERY TIME I see the character played, sometimes even written, I want to scream that they're butchering him.

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[sylviaviridian.livejournal.com]

Glad to know I'm not the only one. ^_^

[larvayne]

9. IT'S FUN!

[techno-beat.livejournal.com]

5. Haha, I know what you mean. Me and the other mods at my old rp eventually started to make each other decline apps though. XD

9. LOL I DO THAT WITH EVERY QUIZ TOO. ♥ *snuggles*