<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=273663.msg13457316#msg13457316">Quote from: jeflint on 25-08-2017, 12:53:36</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Speaking as the primary greeter and 2iC it's not. we probably have 3 or 4 applicants that start and only 1 will finish the process.<br/><br/>It's a tough and grueling process to get approval. That's what the boss wants and so I just ask questions and be the cheerful FennMink in the chat. **wags tail**<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Yeah, I've seen a lot of literate RPers and I've done a lot of literate RPs, but the thing that I've found over the years I've role-played on sites like Elliquiy is that there are way more flaws in that sort of writing than there are benefits.  Pbp needs to be dynamic and at a certain point, longer posts either get redundant or detached from the story.  Players have to pad their posts with things about their character, but may not be able to add that much detail because they're still waiting on certain reactions from the other players.  Of course, sometimes you get the multi-scene where a particular post runs through several lines of dialogue to help fill out the length and when their partner responds, they respond to each line individually.  Of course, that's just not how people talk in real life.<br/><br/>So yeah, I prefer shorter, low-stress posts over the higher ones.  You can probably tell that I sort of resent the whole, "Better Writers Write Longer Posts" mentality that you see sometimes with "literate" RPers.  I've tried it, I've seen it fail (a lot) and I've had<strong>way</strong>more fun with stuff like what we're planning to do here.  Shorter, more dynamic posts that move scenes forward without draining the writers as much.