[RP Advice] Patience is Precious (Impatient Is Intolerable)

A few friends of mine, and myself, have had this very issue with users being impatient. I truly need to cover this because it seems no one else will.

We RPers all want one thing; to have fun. But MANY seem to forget, that some of us hold RolePlay accounts in more than one site or community. Many also forget that we have real lives to worry about. We all live in different time zones and everyone has different lives we live.

I myself have had my run-ins with impatient partners, who beg me for replies and constantly asked if I was ignoring them. It seems many fail to understand that my real life is not the same as theirs, I am not always available. It is why I have a warning about my health and daily activities on my own profile. I always ask for a window of time to be given, for personal reasons and being a multitasker. I happen to be active on 3 different places as Noctis. Which means my response time varies depending on where I answer replies on.

Impatient people will get peeved if you make them wait for so long, yes I get it you are eager for a reply. But, it would not kill you to be considerate of your partners who run on an entirely different time of freedom. Many of your partners have school, many have work, and many are managing their lives on a tight schedule. You cannot hold your partner responsible for the time their real lives take up. But you also cannot hold them responsible for having other replies aside from yours.

There is a difference between someone purposely ignoring you, or being inactive in general. It is disrespectful to your partner if you ask them for a reply when they are going through a hard time. It is rude to ask for a reply by spamming their messages. It is completely irritable and inexcusable to threaten to delete your partner over something they cannot control in their lives.

You need to give a window of time for response, because not everybody can work on your time. We all have different time zones, we all have different lives. Consider that your partner just may be busy at the time of your RP session, don’t beg for a reply. Patience is key to a well-paced story.