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I'm floored at all the "No"s. Do people actually enjoy the wank some of these RP secrets cause?

IAWTC

No, some of us just think roleplay is a big part of fandom. RP makes up about 75% of my fandom experience in the first place.

While it is true that RPs do make a large percentage of fandom, the only RP secrets I been seeing are one-on-one sessions that have gone sour and no one knows what the hell the secret-maker is yammering on about, or disgruntled ex-rpers/rejected applicants bashing a popular RP community and it's so-called fans coming to defend that RP comm's honor in some way, shape or form and it all turns into a giant mess.

True. But I've got no control over what people submit, and personally I don't think it's fair to rule out -all- RP secrets ("OMG I HATE RP SECRETS STFU") like people have been suggesting/complaining we do. Meh, take all the RP secrets out, and you'll still have people being like "WOES THIS FANDOM IS NOT FRIENDLY ANY MORE WEEP D:" How's it any different, really?

Would you prefer to be cleaning up all the wank those secrets cause?

What do you think I do already?

Aside from a blanket "NO WHINING SECRETS" (and that's kind of a stupid thing to do) what else can we do?

Aside from just barring RP secrets altogether? Sadly, I can't think of any real middle ground solution either.

What about all the secrets that target bad fanfiction, or those occasions where someone's fan art is put on trial? Should they be banned too? They're equally guilty of creating wank, after all, and they're equally aimed at a specific people.

If RP Secrets are banned, it kinda opens the way for all manner of potential debate - and I'm sure it's just a matter of time before 'lol fandomsecrets is serious business' becomes the banner cry of the confused.

Because really, I am confused by this! Is it really that troubling for people to not read/focus on secrets they're not interested in? I browse past fandoms I don't know all the time.

Yeah, I never really understood that, either. -Why- is it so annoying? I scroll past TalesofWhatever secrets all the time because I have no idea what they're talking about because I'm not in the fandom but I'm not all OMG NO MORE ToW secrets!

Like what happened to don't like, don't read? >>"

I was gonna cite the very same example - Tales of the Abyss remains unreleased in the United Kingdom and so I... scroll past the Abyss secrets! Dun dun duuun!

Of course, it's incredibly time-consuming to do so. And every glimpse of the secret I'm not interested in reading, well, it rends my very soul. No, really. owwww.

TalesofYadaYada secrets don't bother me either, I ignore those too. I'm talking about the ones that make F!S their personal crusade forum to either bash a RP comm like Paixiao or Paradisa or some other RP comm with some fruity-assed sounding name or to defend it.

Eh, but whatever.

Yes! What a silly question to ask.