I have a couple of issues here:

What do you have against roleplaying from the first person perspective?

I applaud anyone who cares to write well in that style, it's incredibly hard to gain consistency and if they can, they will be much the better for it. I point you in the direction of my favourite series of books i have read to date: The Eisenhorn Trilogy, Written by Dan Abnett and publish by the black library. The entire thing, all three parts are written solely in the first person from cover to cover, the writer does actually state at the beginning of the book he hated doing it, but it is one of his best selling series' and as i stated one of my (and quite a few of the people i know) favourite books. So really that point is invalid and really just a gripe from personal point of view.

"Judge not, lest ye be judged yourself."

But all the other parts of your rant are legitimate in the eys of many, however, We should not be quick to shout off about how others like to have fun. Roleplaying is a multi faceted thing, no two roleplays are ever the same and people have many different styles in which they like to conduct them.

These one line threads hold lot more interest in them than some of the works many other people have created, (often having spent hours on end typing out their introduction and rules, double and treble checking for consistency only for them to die less then 2 pages in and be consigned to the back ends of the forum) and more importantly, these threads contain alot of activity, activity which will one day breed many a good roleplayer. I myself remember the days when "having fun" was more important than how many words my post contained, and i'm sure very many of the other members may well have started roleplaying in the exact same manner.

So, we should not really be posting up threads like this, condemning peoples writing styles and activities just because of a single persons viewpoint and, indeed, a viewpoint which would be construed as "snobbish" were it not for the fact many people have your exact same stance.

I say to you all: Everyone was a beginner and none of us ever got as good as we are without learning somewhere. That place of learning here is the beginners section and as such, don't condemn the works within it just because "it's not good enough" to you.

~Tsardel~

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