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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nugan" data-source="post: 2558278" data-attributes="member: 36335">Warning: You won't find much constructive criticism below. This isn't another guide, so you should probably just go back to ISRP general before you waste five minutes of your life reading my pet peeves. Come on, its not worth it...Anyway, for those of you with as much time to waste as me: I didn't get much sleep last night, and the chat server are down, so I'm somewhat in the mood for "ranting".Here are some of my ISRP pet peeves:I'm not my character, and my character is not me:Yes, Nugan the character is a jerk. I won't deny it. That said, he is a character, he is not me. I try to be as polite as possible to other players OOC, and I don't see why people make the assumition that me and my character are one and the same ( Of course we sorta are, but not in personality). No one sees Straak and assumes I'm a Kobold kitchen slave. No one sees Bandit and assumes I'm someone's weasel familar. No one sees A Chipmunk and assumes I'm, well a chipmunk. Why should Nugan be any different? I'll admit that this problem has all but disappeared now that I've been around for a little while, but I'm sure others are going through it now. Just keep this in mind next time you think about judging a player by their character.I wonder why people always abuse the "wonder why":How many times have you seen this? Someone criticizes some one else's mistake, but don't worry: They did it as an emote, so its ok. I'm not talking about one character making fun of another, that would be flat out hipocrisy. I'm talking about an obvious OOC attack "hidden" as a "wonders why".  You know what I mean: CharX wonders why CharY is such an idiot. Maybe not that severe, but it must hurt the other player none-the-less. If someone makes a "mistake" that bothers you, don't attack their Role-Playing skills right on the main chat board like that. Instead you could simple ignore them (w/o waving the Igy stick) or better yet: You could talk to them nicely (!) and try to help them out.Clique Wars:The ISRP is full of cliques, but I'm not here to complain about that. The world is full of cliques, and there's not much you can do about it. I just wish the different cliques could get along instead of constantly being at war with each other. Group A hates Group B because PlayerX from Group B did something to offend PlayerY in Group B. I've been involved in one nasty OOC "clique war" and I never want to go back there. That's why I stayed nuetral and tried to patch things up when a friend of mine had problems with some members with another group. At the heart of these things there's always some hidden misunderstanding or offense that got out of hand. If these cliques would open up communication with each other and throw away their difficulties maybe we could disspell some of the deep pessimism that seems so prevelant around here. But I'm rambling...There is no "WizO Cabal":Well, maybe there is a WizO_Cabal, I haven't been everywhere on this site, but that's not what I meant. What I'm reffering to is the idea that the WizOs are the Wizards Chat version of The X-File's "Secret Government". You know, a bunch of old men in a cigar-smoke filled room trying to pursue their own interests at whatever cost to the site. That's simply not the case. There is no WizO favoritism or alternative WizO motives. The WizOs are around because they happened to get a job as chat moderators for the site and they don't mind working for next to nothing (used to be nothing). They do not target certain people for destruction, nor do they give anyone "special pardons" to certain people. Yes, some people get away with violating the CoC and some people get hit on their first offense. The reason for that has nothing to do with favoritism though: People are often just too lazy to appoint offenders. That's it, there's nothing more to it. Oh and the same points go for those people who think the Adepts are some sort of "Minor WizO" with special influences or whatever. They just happen to be members of a Moderator run storyline.Well, there goes a half hour of my life and five or ten minutes of yours. Please don't hate me for it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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