Board Thread:Off-Topic Fun/@comment-5679696-20150115020645/@comment-25375217-20150122171756

After fighting many battles and facing many dangers, the prince finally made his way through the marsh and to the castle where Dandelia was held, where he slayed the beast which had kidnapped her- however, when he freed her and attempted to woo her, she turned him down because he was no longer heir to the throne, a role now taken by none other than the vizier himself. Exhibit A: A completely proper sentence, which, at least at the time, there was no rule against writing. Sorry but how did he get in the castle? Can he jump very high? Can he fly?

I think making these long 'sentences' is cheating the rules as they can made into 2 or 3 sentences very easily. Exhibit B: Someone saying that they dislike my sentence in a very polite manner. With a long sentence of 3/4 lines, clearly I think it is a way to give a specific direction to the story. It is a pity :/ Exhibit C: Yet another person being perfectly polite about their disagreement. Well, the rules say one sentence per day, and if I want to write a compound, complex sentence, I don't see how that is cheating. Exhibit D: Someone being perfectly polite about their opinion that it isn't against the rules. I agree with CoolDude, although it should probably be avoided. Exhibit E: Me being perfectly polite and deciding to attempt to compromise. But the way you are doing it is like controlling the story. Although your post can be tolerated imo because it tells just a tiny piece. But DatNuttyKid forgets that the castle is in the sky, how did he get up there? And just skips may things. His post could have been done in three sentences; Exhibit F: Following our politeness, a user immediately jumps to all of the reasons that my sentence is wrong. Although they aren't yet being a jerk, it isn't entirely fair for them to immediately jump on me, when I did something that was not against the rules. the theory behind this game is that everyone makes a sentence and you follow what the sentence says. It kind of ruins it if you try to limit what they can do with their sentences. Exhibit G: Me defending myself. Those are valid points, we can retcon the last bit, if you say something like "The prince woke up from a vision he had in the marsh that he had gotten from its noxious fumes" or something. Exhibit F: Someone attempting to completely remove my sentence from the game because they disagree with it, which is certainly not following what other users decide, and therefore I'd consider it against the rules. That's much less fair than longer sentences. If its controlling to make a long sentence, it's certainly controlling to retcon what another user says. -.- Exhibit G: Me feeling quite insulted after someone calls me out for making a longer sentence and then someone else saying they're going to completely retcon my sentence out of existence because they disagree with me, and stating my opinions on the matter. Maybe we don't play because: 1 - this problem of lines. When you do 3/4 lines and the others just do 1/2 lines per post well yeah, that's not really equal. 2 - Last time I played, I introduced something and someone broke what I did directly. We should continue the story, with the latest element (that's what Killian told us); not change immediately what the previous said. Exhibit H: eh, this isn't particularly relevant to me feeling insulted, but this is someone once again complaining that making a longer sentence is unfair although it completely follows the rules. Fine, I edited it. Happy? At least mine isn't 6 lines long and directs the story to where I want. The second sentence barely changed anything on the plot since that's probably what anyone else would have written. Exhibit I: Someone who actually disobeyed the rules being a jerk to me because I obeyed the rules in a way that they didn't like. I completely agree with you Andrew :) And, we would not complain about it if everyone plays like the others. Everyone did 1/2 lines per post until now. I really think it is enough for this game, everyone was happy with that :) Exhibit J: Someone who is supposed to be an authority figure agreeing with the person who disobeyed the rules and attacked the person who obeyed them. it certainly ruins the fun of the game when I make a post and get immediately attacked for it. Exhibit K: This actually was posted awhile before some of the other posts but in context it makes more sense here. Me no longer enjoying the game because people are blaming me for ruining it when all I did was post a sentence that they didn't agree with. I'm very tempted to write a very long sentence now just to spite the people who are being jerks. Exhibit L: Me returning after an absence just to find that people continued to talk about how I ruined the game after I left, and making an admittedly unnecessary comment. I'm sorry but, did you just insult some of us? Exhibit M: Someone taking the non-insulting unnecessary and unimportant comment as an insult. Let's please refrain from making derogatory remarks about the other users (either directly or implied). You may not necessarily agree with someone else, but let's at least keep it to civilized disagreements. Exhibit N: Someone else taking it as an insult and reminding the forum as a group to be kind. Also, DatNuttyKid, be civilized. If you want to go around insulting people you should leave :) Exhibit O: Someone else taking it as an insult and telling me to leave. also, i'd like to point out that none of the words I uttered were insults. Jerk is referring to the fact that I made a sentence that obeyed the rules perfectly and was immediately swarmed by people yelling at me that I had ruined the entire game somehow because I threw it off the track they wanted on. I was insulted much more than I insulted anyone, and if you don't like being called a jerk maybe you should stop being one. Exhibit P: Me pointing out that jerk is not an insult and was intended to be taken as one, albeit rudely because I'm quite fed up with the fact that everyone attacked me and took a non-rude comment as one. You know that the reason the other attempts at making a story together failed because people were typing pieces that were too long. It just doesn't make other people have a chance to write something they like. And I, personally, base my sentence on what we already have, and I don't even think further than my sentence. Maybe you should try that... Exhibit Q: Someone telling me that I indeed could have completely ruined the game. Although this may or may not be their intention, it's phrased very much like "And I do my sentences so perfectly you should do it like mine". At least that's how I take it. Although I'm kind of fed up so I may not be the best judge. I don't think any further than my sentence. I just think of one thing that I think should happen, and type something that makes it happen. And the sentence sometimes turns out long. Exhibit R: Me explaining how I write my sentences in as polite of a manner as I can when I'm this annoyed. So we insulted you because we spoke our minds about you writing 5-line "sentence"? And that gives you the right to call us jerks? I hope an admin sees this and you get a 1-week ban. Exhibit Z (yes I know there are more letters but this is the last exhibit so): Someone once again taking a non-insult as an insult and hoping I get banned for being attacked for no reason.

So yes, although I had my rude moments, I believe I did nothing directly wrong. If I get a week ban it's certainly undeserving, considering all I did was post a sentence, get attacked because certain users disagree with it, and make an (again, admittedly unnecessary) comment about how I was unfairly attacked.