[Discuss] Roleplay tag

[psymann]

Tessa wrote:
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> No, certainly not "solely limited to."  Your example is most certainly a
> roleplay message.
> 
> Anything that has any narrative in it should be classified as a
> roleplay.  Anything that is purely a direct address to one or more
> people should be classified as a letter (or other appropriate type).
> 
> Timothy Collett
> Anaris Family
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> 
> So a 3500+ character speech that somewhere involved vast and sweeping 
> overly dramatic hand gestures would be legitimately tagged "Roleplay"? :)

Definitely.

I sometimes talk to someone for a long while, and then shake their hand 
and walk off.

I never write a long letter to someone, then write, on the paper "I am 
shaking your hand", and then sign off.

Surely you know what sorts of things get written in letters?  You don't 
write {frowns with annoyance} in the middle of a complaints letter to 
your bank, do you?  Or {makes gestures to indicate the size of the fish} 
in the middle of a letter to your cousin about your recent fishing 
successes?

And, on a side note, I think it would make things clearer if Roleplays 
were not automatically completed with the addition of "psymann, Knight 
of Splodgeville" at the end, since this makes them look like a letter, 
which they're not.  It's obvious from the title "Roleplay from psymann" 
who wrote it; the "psymann, Knight of Splodgeville" at the end makes it 
look like a letter and is inappropriate for roleplay messages.  I'd like 
to see that removed.  Maybe I should stick that on the bugtracker?

psymann