<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=56225.msg2590200#msg2590200">Quote from: Tsakara on 30-12-2009, 06:26:52</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">the whole word count per post thing has never sat well with me, because if your having a conversation with someone, then there isn't going to BE that much to post, you can't speak for them without metagaming, and there's nothing for your character to be doing that won't retract from the the whole conversation aspect of it. I mean, yes, minimum quality, I can understand that, but there times when there just isn't a way to get the quantity of text without stretching the situation ridiculously. <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>indeed you can, there are plenty of actions and observations one can make, tone of voice, inflection, thoughts in your head behind your words, and so on. thats why i said four lines, and not say, 6 or 8, because four is a reasonable amount to expect in a high functioning RP.<br/><br/>you were one of the first applicants back in the intchk... you had<strong>ample</strong>opportunity to object, or propose alternatives. and i might well have lowered it... but even after i bitchslapped it back 'on topic' and told people the topic was only for discussing the idea/my rules.. no one ever mentioned the post length restriction.<br/><br/>so now its law. and not a unreasonable one in my mind.<br/><br/>and im not so precise as to require a word count, i just add up all the peices and if it looks like four lines, its good