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hello, i've been seeing a trend of people in the blogs questioning rpr culture lmao idk if there's an influx of new people or if there's just a new wave of people being irritated again but afdgkjh ngl as somebody who's been on rpr for a long long time, this is actually a positive trend and i'm glad you guys are here to criticize!

first, i have to explain blog posts for ads are a thing because it says to all their rpr friends and those who lurk on blogs that "hey, this rp is active enough that i *want* a third character" or something like that depending on the rules of the rp. this shows everybody that the rp is not only active, but there's plenty of people to rp with. sometimes these rps that show up on the front page are just three people chatting with each other in a dead rp, but these blog posts are here to vouch that the rp is active enough that they want more people.

second, high quality roleplays are extremely rare on rpr. you have to be in the right place at the right time because the peak time for activity is the first week the rp opens. this is true for all rps on rpr because this is the time when admins are the most active and admins on rpr generally act like a slave for activity until they burn out. nonadmins on rpr never take credit for activity because it's none of their business, except it actually is lmao the key to a long lasting rp is active nonadmins taking initiative to greet new people and make them feel engaged in the community. this is where a lot of aus fail because new people will join an established 'high quality' rp with intense lore and nobody will help to catch them up because they're busy with their current threads and this makes a trend of a less engaged majority and an incredibly engaged minority - but honestly, in an au, that is the best case scenario, i'm not going to lie, but at that point, it's best to close the rp and accept people in waves so that they're not alone as newbies. the down point of that is people in the rp being inactive lmao it's gonna take a lot of tinkering to figure out the best way to approach lore heavy aus on rpr.

third, you have to just drop the idea that you're going to get a large group of people who rp regularly on rpr. honestly, find your people. make a small rp. and invite people who you'll find in chatty nonaus to join you if you think they'd make a good fit. honestly, i think a majority of the people searching for pmrps would work amazing *together* in a private rp where there's no pressure to be active or engage with each other. if chatty rps aren't your thing, that's fine, but if they're good for anything, it's for meeting new people to rp with. it's networking and you aren't going to find the same people by joining dead aus because nobody is going to join a dead au where they don't know if anybody is going to rp with them because of how quiet it is.

also, i'm not sure how things are on other sites in the rping community, but afgkjh rpr has such a specific dynamic that's really jarring for newcomers and i have to apologize for that but really there are more of your brand of people than you realize and you just have to communicate to find them. chatty nonaus aren't my cup of tea either, but i do love the people that i meet there even if the rp i meet them in is mostly us bullting in the chatroom because i know that when there's an au that itches our muse that we'll be able to rp together and communicate. in the end, the biggest issue is that rpr has a gap in community that chatty nonaus fill out and it's difficult to filter what's an active rp and what's just essentially an ooc chatroom.

Not really. I do pm rps on and off with two people