[quote=@Deserted]

[Hider=1) A game run by a tyrant with a chip on his shoulder.]
[color=00ff00][b]Me:[/b] So, you keep shutting down my character ideas, but you don't tell me why or how to make them fit your game. Can you give me some feedback?[/color]
[color=red][b]Ego-trip-man:[/b] I've had about enough of your guff, mister, one more step out of line and I'm banning your $@#@ &^%# from my game. Heck, you should be kicked off of the board entirely for $&#% stuff like that! I'm being gracious here, but one more peep out of you and I'm going to the board administrators about you.[/color][/hider]
[hider=2) No-show players]
[color=7ea7d8][b]Flaky Player:[/b] Gosh, 1 post of 25 words a week... I don't know, I'm sooooooo busy I've got work and school and Pokemon Go. When am I going to have time for this? I'd better just join, fill up an available space, and then vanish without a trace when the adventure starts. I'm sure that everyone will be appreciative that I got them started.[/color][/hider]
[hider=3) The games I choose to run are invisible...] I don't get a single nibble and I have tried a number of strategies. People act like I'm peddling poop.
[color=00ff00][b]What I say:[/b] Hey, come check out my original game concept. It isn't like anything you've seen before![/color]
[color=aaff00][b]What they hear:[/b] Hey, you wanna buy some poop. Pooped it myself just this morning. Poop poop poop[/color][/hider]
[hider=4) Games I have no clue about.] [color=yellow][b]GM:[/b] Whoooo's ready for some Hakatushi Mitsu Gi Mushi![/color]
[color=00ff00][b]Me:[/b] *Read read read* What!?[/color]
[color=yellow][b]GM:[/b] You mean to tell me that you didn't buy the reel to reel films from Japan and translate them into English or learn Japanese to really experience them they way they are intended? I could explain, but there's just too much. Go watch the entire series, it's only 10,000 hours worth, I'll save you a spot.[/color]
[color=ed145b][b]A throng of other players:[/b] Oh! Hakatushi Mitsu Gi Mushi![/color][/hider]

So, enough on recruiting for games. That isn't working out, and enough for applying to games, that isn't working out. [color=yellow]So, let's just focus on meeting some new respectable people and decide where to go from there.[/color]

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I had 1 and 4 happen to me at the same time.  I created a character for an RP based on a popular anime, only to have the GM and his buddy tell me I was stupid because I didn't know lore that wasn't even in the original anime, just the Manga and/or spinoff.  Then I said "well this is what I was going for, so how could I fix it" and they decided that insulting me further was the best response.  Then they asked the Mods of the site to delete where they did all of this and told me not to come back to their RP.

2 is super common on mine.  I've literally had 5 or 6 people sign up then only 1 or 2 bother to make characters.  Then one of them abandons it after a single post.

3 also happens from time to time, where I create a unique world but I get no interest.  Occasionally I get one person to sign up after 3 weeks of silence, but by then it's not really worth running any more, especially with only 1 character that's not a GM character.

I would love to participate if your are trying to create one people will actually play.  I've been making generic ones just so people will stick around.