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Old 08-21-2012, 10:01 AM   #40
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Re: Dealing with RP Attention Hogs

I don't believe it's an attention-monger's goal to actually ruin the rp scene they're mongering. That's just a common side effect. Most of them seriously believe they're adding to an rp event by throwing their skilled emotes into the spotlight every 30 seconds and portraying their awesome character in an entertaining fashion. In their mind, what's the point of attending anything if you're just going to sit silently and watch others rp? You're there to be a part of the scene, not watch other people act out a scene. In their mind, if you're not going to emote, participate, and get some attention (even if your character doesn't have much legitimate business doing so), you might as well just read the log later and not waste time being there. Not that an attention-monger would ever skip an event. Those chances to impress groups of people at a special time when a lot of people are in one place can be few and far between.

Most of the time, if you run off an attention-monger, whether using using IC or OOC means, he/she isn't going to thrive on being the victim. More likely, your attention seeker is going to go ape on ooc channels if the mud has them, claiming that people here are stifling rp rather than encouraging it, the other people around here can't rp their way out of a paper bag, boldly proclaim that the mud sucks, then log off. Attention mongers actually believe they're speical. They're not out to ruin the game for others. On the contrary, what they desperately hope to do is impress others and get credit for making the game better and entertaining.
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