aw come on, my internet blipped for ONE MINUTE and you disconnect?
aw come on, my internet blipped for ONE MINUTE and you disconnect?
Failing to warn your users about an upcoming server change or give them any notice whatsoever about needing to save their logs and not even backing up your own site info is ragingly unprofessional.
I’ve stuck up for the parp mods in the past but I just outright cannot believe this shit, I’ve probably lost upwards of 20 pages per rp in a couple of one-on-one RPs in private chatrooms because of this. Entire plots and interactions gone. I keep thinking, did I miss the warning that this move was coming? But I’m hardly the only person who’s angry about this or who says I didn’t get a warning, as far as I can tell, so at least I can take solace in the fact that I’m not being ridiculous.
HOW YOU COULD HAVE DONE IT: Put a message on the frontsite about an upcoming server move. Give users time to acquaint with it. Have a server message about the upcoming move at the start of every chat/every time someone connects encouraging users to save and backup their logs on their own. I’ve seen systemwide messages before, I know you’re capable of it. Add an admin note into the subject of group chats that warns users about the upcoming move. Or, you know, made backups of your own site. But if the parp admins didn’t have room for that, I’d understand. But for real. Give people time to save their shit. And no, a couple hours isn’t time, not everyone lives in the States and plays during the day or evening. Give your users a couple days with that message appearing in their chat every time they connect.
WHAT YOU DID INSTEAD: Hey guys here’s a message that the site is offline with no forewarning! Did we mention you’re going to lose all your logs since about November? Guess it’s your own fault for not saving!
Don’t tell me to use the google cache, either. Google doesn’t cache most logs and I’m not sure where the idea that it does came from. I’ve tried several of my roleplays with the webcontent cache url and not a single one has shown up.
I know Parp is free and I feel the pain of the admins on a lot of stuff, but something being free doesn’t mean that you get a free pass on everything. This is unprofessional and ridiculous. You fucked up.
The blog known as rpingthehomestucks presents to you a list of things you should neverdo on anonymous RPing sites:
- Ask for private information when the other person has made no intentions of wanting to contact you outside of the RP site.
- Ask for private information when the other person has made no intentions of wanting to contact you outside of the RP site.
- SERIOUSLY IF YOU ASK FOR PRIVATE INFORMATION WHEN THEY ALREADY STATED THEY DON’T WANT TO GIVE YOU ANYTHING OR HAVE SHOWN NO INTENTION OR DESIRE OF CONTACTING YOU OUTSIDE OF THE FUCKING WEBSITE YOU CLEARLY DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE REASON WHY SOME PEOPLE RP ON ANONYMOUS RP WEBSITES.
IT IS THEIR PERSONAL INFORMATION AND YOU SHOULD RESPECT THAT. PLEASE AND THANK.
for real, not every person you talk to on msparp or cherubplay is willing to give out their information. if you must ask, just ask “hey, would you like to keep in touch” and then respect it if they say no. don’t ask for a specific skype or a specific tumblr unless they respond affirmatively to the offer for contact, or offer that information up themselves.
many people come to parp and cherubplay specifically for the anonymity. they may not like having their name attached to the roleplay for one reason or another.
Okay, I literally have nothing new to add on the subject that hasn’t been said a thousand times before by much better writers, but don’t RP smut if you’re underage.
I’m sorry, yes, I know you want to and you have raging hormones or whatever, but it’s just not worth it.
…and even though I’m entombed up here inNorthrendCanada, as I understand it, if you’re American you can get in shit (like ending up on a sex-offender’s list) even if you’re both underage.
Also, in the vein of not just blaming teens for this, it takes two to tango. If you’re not underage and you have good reason (or any reason) to think your partner is underage, I highly encourage you to dump that fucker like they’re fourth period French. Sever, because that shit is just not worth it.
While some sites have barriers of entry, Cherubplay (and MSPARP) don’t. Not even a little click-through ‘verify that you’re 18’ thing when you register or select ‘NSFW’. There is literally no legal recourse or justification or protections for you if get caught smutting with someone who’s underage. And don’t take the words ‘get caught’ as some sort of tacit approval or instruction to do it anyways and try not to get caught.
Basically, you can get in trouble, they can get in trouble. Everyone can get in trouble. We all want to bone the Striders, I know, but it’s not worth getting arrested or ending up on a sex-offenders list over.
moral of the story: you may think it’s harmless if you are underage and rp porn, but trust me, literally everybody faces bad consequences for it. including you.
don’t roleplay porn if you’re underage.
please.
(and, in addition, a shoutout to the rp partners I have had who always ask for ages before even the lightest shit happens in the rp. it makes me happy to know you are out there somewhere, refusing to do this shit.)
Look, guys, for fuck’s sake, it was annoying when you played other fandom characters on parp and it’s even more annoying on Cherubplay, because at least on parp people could uncheck the “Other (Canon)” box to avoid seeing you. (Even though the “Other (Canon)” box was meant for other Homestuck characters that were not on the list – Arquiusprite, Sawtooth, Felt members, Hal, Cal, et cetera, not for other fandom characters).
Putting non-Homestuck shit on Cherubplay is against the rules. You could be banned for it. And people that fucking come to Cherubplay to play Homestuck characters are probably sort of sick of you appending “stuck” to a different fandom to pretend it’s a crossover, and then just straight up playing the other fandom without any Homestuck elements at all.
Why are you playing Dangan Ronpa or Supernatural characters here? Go to fucking Charat, where they belong.
Preach, greyface.
When you are looking for a Bro, and only a Bro, you should probably uncheck Dirk’s box on Parp, and if you leave it checked, you should not be surprised when the Dirk you get acts like Dirk and not like Bro. Just because some people use Dirk’s color for Bro does not mean they are the same character. Just because someone is on Parp as Dirk does not mean they are in the mood currently, or even ever, to play Bro because you try to pressure them into it.
I really thought this problem would stop when the guardian checkboxes got added fucking forever ago. It has not. I still routinely run into Daves and Johns, while playing Dirk, that are shocked and disconnect from me when I act like Dirk instead of Bro.
(for fuck’s sake, guys, use the fucking checkboxes when you don’t want a character. That’s what they are there for. Nobody will ever know.)
the only thing worse than metaknowledge roleplayers is the roleplayers who get mad when you refuse to play with the metaknowledge they want from you. they want your character to recognize someone they’ve never met, because THEIR character illogically gets to have metaknowledge. then they accuse you of being ooc or a bad roleplayer when you don’t humor them and keep your character to ic knowledge only.