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The RPG Revolution Manifesto

These representatives of the roleplaying community have determined to set forth this declaration of our contentions with many present and past roleplaying sites. We bring a call to change for sites, admins, players, and characters, where at least the extremes might be blunted and other perspectives might be heard. We propose that there are better alternatives to many of the methods admins and players currently endorse, and that roleplayers should not be content with many of the present solutions offered by admins and players.

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1. Whereas we no longer want to be belittled and treated as ignorant by admins who show no respect for their members and applicants by making fun of them, picking apart applications for minor reasons, are extremely negative in their rules, guidelines, and descriptions, and who treat new members as stupid before their first post. We also object to the members who support these admins.

2. Whereas we wish to return to a place where the plot and content of a site is more important than the skin, layout, and banner, and players consider a character's development more important than their avatar claim.

3. Whereas we will actively call out other players who treat new members with contempt, favor or ignore certain players based on their avatar claim, snub newbies, or only roleplay with a certain OOC clique or their real life friends.

4. Whereas we wish to declaim terms like "advanced" and "elite" which are based solely on word count, and instead favor more organic ways to look at successful writing skills.

5. Whereas we are tired of characters who are cliche, only look like models, and do not have a representation of size, shape, age, gender, social status, economic status, ethnicity, and culture.

6. Whereas we believe admins should not create a site or it's subplots to revolve around their own characters, nor favor their staff and friends in the plots and site expression.

7. Whereas we take a stand for player and admin responsibility, activity, and commitment. We condemn players who complain about everything, rip plots and characters, and who create, join, and leave multiple sites in one month. We also protest players who show contempt for other players, staff, and admins when the players themselves could not do a better job.

8. Whereas we ask the roleplaying community to start playing on active sites instead of creating new sites that are exactly like sites already in existence.

9. Whereas we proclaim that roleplaying should be fun, and declare the roleplaying community should be a place to enjoy ourselves without fear of being disparaged, dumped on, harrassed, taken for granted, ignored, or treated as unimportant.

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