Why, HP fandom, why?
Why do you have to produce some of the most incompetent writers and RPers that I've come across? I can list a number of players, on a couple of sites, and a few fandoms, to rant about, but I'd like to save some of my stories for some time other than my first post. So I'll just mention my latest two pet peeves.
Theo. This guy's sweet, if not a little too..."friendly" at times. But this kid has openly admitted to me that he doesn't care about writing properly in a text-based forum. Excuse me? So his posts have no substance, his grammar and spelling are atrocious (he actually used "w/" in a recent post), and he gets his panties in a twist when you ask him to add more when there's nothing to push the plot of a thread.
He is just a terrible player in general. He's not new, so it's not even like he can fall back on "I'm a noob" to soften the blow. I wrote a post that was nearly four paragraphs of dialog, action, and thought. Do I expect someone to match that on an open-skill forum? No. But I would like it to look like he put in effort to match mine! Not two fucking lines. And I'm definitely not the only person to have complaints against him.
"Vampyro." ...Yes, that is his character's name. Well, it was, until someone said something to him about how unrealistic it is for a fifteen-year-old Ravenclaw student. Now it's just his nickname. But the player said that "Vampyro" was his own handle in his band. I've never played with him, but he whines about having nothing to do (which is kind of true, because though the site has a few hundred members, there's not a lot of activity), but he doesn't make any threads. He's in England, the most active part of the site. America, France, and Bulgaria suffer, but England is pretty active because Hogwarts draws the most people. I guess not figuring out that starting a thread himself shouldn't be a surprise, since he thought that "red" was the past tense of "to read." Nonono, it was NOT a typo. When I corrected him, he admitted to learning something new. He's sixteen. English is apparently his best subject, and he's very intellegent [sic]. Yeah, okay, buddy.