Kyriel wrote:I've seen people who use smilies and chatspeak, even mixed up OOC inadvertently. Generally I just gently give them a whisper about it. They might be a genuinely new player and not realize.
This is usually the case, yes. I find long time players who consistently refuse to use capital letters and punctuation a lot more annoying (confusing too since your phone does if for you, half the time...), but it's not worth making an issue of. But people using a smiley face instead of *smiles* or not being able to tell the difference between acceptable and unacceptable uses of OOC simply don't know any better, and there's nothing wrong with a polite whisper, and that certainly doesn't equal elitism or any kind of personal attack.
And of course, my character has no idea what to make of someone saying 'colon, right parenthesis', so I'd just treat it as a typo and have them ignore it.
Auto correct goof ups, I'm pretty sure everybody understands and ignores. It's only when the person goes back and corrects themselves OOC instead of just rolling with it or saying they misspoke that it bugs me.
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And sorry but I have to respond to this:
Claiming that people are lesser rpers because they have a different style is disruptive and hurtful.
No one in this thread has said or even implied anything about people being 'lesser RPers' except you and Estaar. Please stop putting words in people's mouth, because that's the kind of thing that leads to things getting out of hand, and me earlier post was entirely in response to that.
SheDevil just said she thought it was annoying. Here, in the 'things that annoy you' thread. It was a perfectly valid opinion and not meant or expressed in any kind of rude way. There was no reason for her to be attacked for that or implications made that she was some kind of elitist trying to chase people from the game.
I take it back then, sorry.
