{"id":129,"date":"2010-03-23T14:05:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T06:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grind.rpol.net\/?p=129"},"modified":"2010-03-23T14:05:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T06:05:36","slug":"its-ok-if-you-dont-actually-say-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grind.rpol.net\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s ok if you don&#8217;t actually SAY it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I had more time to spend on RPoL and RolePlaying in general, though I sometimes wonder if I should grow out of it and act like a sensible mature adult.\u00a0 But really, that sentiment is just insulting to those adults that I know that do still RolePlay.\u00a0\u00a0I guess I&#8217;m\u00a0included in that, but that does depend on your definition of &#8220;adult&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I do some web searches from time to time to see what the general consensus is with RPoL, and to see how it&#8217;s received compared to other sites.<\/p>\n<p>Two things to spring to mind when looking at the results.\u00a0 Firstly, I get the opinion that RPoL is more orientated toward the mature audience and less toward those who possibly expect every web bell and whistle to be available to them, and for everything to be automated.<\/p>\n<p>The second is that I wish I had the time to monitor this stuff more closely, to offer suggestions to visit RPoL and to rebuke stuff like:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I don&#8217;t want to push a conclusion or accuse them of fudging, but we&#8217;ve always been confused by the way they handle their stats<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks kaethre, very kind of you to not not say that.\u00a0 While it&#8217;s\u00a0vaguely (very, very vaguely) satisfying\u00a0to know we&#8217;re in a position where people want to cut us down, it&#8217;s not at all nice to see such accusations flung around.\u00a0 That&#8217;s certainly not the first <em>mythical<\/em> accusation I&#8217;ve seen <em>weaved<\/em> from a member of that particular site, and I&#8217;m sure it won&#8217;t be the last.<\/p>\n<p>As I said, it makes me wish I had more time to participate on other sites.. or maybe a small pack of <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">rabid Rabbits<\/span> <a title=\"Rabbids\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=223HNG3RJZc\">Rabbids<\/a> roaming the Internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I had more time to spend on RPoL and RolePlaying in general, though I sometimes wonder if I should grow out of it and act like a sensible mature adult.\u00a0 But really, that sentiment is just insulting to those adults that I know that do still RolePlay.\u00a0\u00a0I guess I&#8217;m\u00a0included in that, but that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-default-ramblings","tag-rpol"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grind.rpol.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grind.rpol.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grind.rpol.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grind.rpol.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grind.rpol.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/grind.rpol.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/grind.rpol.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grind.rpol.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grind.rpol.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grind.rpol.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}