User blog comment:Ultimatedude127/My rant on this place/@comment-1942179-20110321235207


 * clears throat* Allow me to give you my personal thoughts on this matter.

On the subject of depressions, You have a point. But depending on who it is, Their depression may be justified. Several things happen in people's personal lives. There's a lot of things that can get you down. Bringing it here is one thing. To let your friends know how your currently feeling is alright. But to turn them down? You're the one who brought it here, so why are you turning them down? They want to help, they have every right to try and help, because they're your friends and you told them about it. I personally think that's rather selfish when you do that. I admit that I've been really depressed from time to time. But as far as I go with it, I just put it on my status. If anyone asks me, I'll either tell them a little bit about it or just say "It's nothing to worry about. I'll be fine." If you turn them down, try to at least make them feel at ease that you'll be alright. And remember to thank them for their concern for you.

Next, I'm rarely blogging casually. I blog when I have something I want to talk about that's not personal (like on my talk page, or someone elses) article specific (on an article's talk page) or about a specific RP. I blog when I want to discuss something with anyone. All the other times, I'm working to improve my own articles and continuing Good RP's. I'm also occasionally checking on other pages and giving my two cents to help improve them.

Now I agree with you that there are so many crap worthy RP's out there, but I would not point my finger at Spongebob so openly. Don't do that. You could hurt people's feelings. In any case, There really aren't many good RP's around. I've tried to make my own, but I really don't have many large ideas. Nor am I confident in running a whole RP by myself. I prefer to be in the suspense. But here's the main problems I'm seeing with RP's. 1: Godmodding. So, much, Godmodding. People come in with overpowered characters and end the battle. People come in with their own storyline and steal the show. People come in and just tear everything up with something that's scarcely related and throws everything into chaos. This. Needs. To. Stop.

2: Bad plots. Sometimes it's not the RP'ers fault that the RP is bad, it's the RP itself. Please, THINK before you start an RP. Some times the RP won't even start because nobody knows what the heck is going on, because there is no description. It's just "Okay, here are the rules, and the entry list. Now go RP." So people are like "..........Sup, man?" They don't have anything to do, so it either starts out boring, crazy, or nothing at all. And RP's like that generally die quickly. Sometimes the plot just plain doesn't make any sense. Now, in response to KPZ, I generally find nothing wrong with a peaceful roleplay. Because it generally just gives me the time to show what my characters LIKE to do other than fighting evil. It allows me to bring in character development, and a chance for people to see my characters actually HAPPY. As long as there's actually something to do, really, I don't mind them. But I do prefer action RP's.

3: People getting left behind, is a big problem. Several people have missed out on either whole chapters, or half the entire RP because people go on without them. Especially when they're NEEDED for the RP. This can also happen if there are too many plot separations, like Part 2A, Part 2B, Part 2C, etc. All going at the same time. It can get confusing when those plots start advancing, and people go to different areas. Happened to me once, where I was replying to one part in particular like I regularly was, moving along with my story, and then people are like "Are you going to get back in the RP or what?" because they had already moved on to part 7B. Part of the reason for this is that they moved onward with the story too quickly. So quickly that it almost didn't make sense for me. (Time skips, teleportation, etc, when I was still busy with my part.) It got to the point where I just couldn't go on.

In closing, People really do need to shape up a bit. I don't mind talk plays, but like you said, many of them get ignored. Happened to me with Kyle's page. Tried to start one, and nothing happened. And speaking of getting ignored, I've added so many updates to all my characters pages, And only three of my characters actually got (relevant) comments. Three. That means that not even a quarter of my characters have gotten any attention. Even when I TRY to give everyone else but Smash some shine, it hardly works.

So yeah, people should try to comment on articles a little more. Otherwise, it may discourage people. Especially the new guys.