Midnight, do you mind if I ask why?
It's okay, kuanyin-- I don't the mind the question. I've participated in DS role playing and it's a lot of fun, but the decision was made to not host role playing and fan fic for several reasons. (Ack, all hope of being brief goes out the window!)
For one, it's always been a
discussion forum. And if RP and FF were allowed as well, posters would be able to do both limitlessly, and the mods couldn't possibly keep up with reading all the fiction and moderating the role playing. And role playing can evolve into sophisticated games, which are more like "rule-playing" because they require their own guidelines, and none of us are interested in getting involved with gaming. Another reason is that when the board was very young RP was occasionally used to ridicule others and cause problems while the posters were in character; of course all that was removed, but as we've seen time and again it only takes a handful of people to ruin something for others. And since there are sites that accept both FF and RP, it's not like fans don't have other places in which to do either, and we've never discouraged links or invitations to role play elsewhere. And I haven't addressed our bandwidth issues.
All we ask is that the role playing or short fiction not become ongoing as this topic was leading to. We also ask that members not post in character according to their screen name or avatar, which is role playing in its purest form.
