Hey there.
Right now I am in the process of coming back to RP and finishing my char. Doing lot of random walk up RP while I am figuring out some RP stuff. And I noticed that there are some things which either make me have a double take at the char or just flat out be like. “Nope. Dont feel like dealing with that.”.
I am not immune to red flags obviously. So that is why I am asking what do people here consider red flags or make you think twice about RPing with someone?
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I think you’re best off just diving in and judging things for yourself. This is a very subjective question, I believe. 10 different people will likely give you 10 different answers.
There are some common ones most tend to agree on, though. Such as taking OOC disagreements / “Drama” to influence IC action and vice versa.
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Giant growth + darkmoon fire water + the food buff that makes you 30% bigger
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TRP profiles referring to their linked AI slop as art is a double-wammy in my books.
That said, what is a red flag to me needn’t be one to you.
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Yes, I understand that red flags are quite subjective and personal. Question is more about my curiosity and if I am not being too nitpicky. 
For example mentioned growth potions. All in all it is not a big deal. But at the same time I am like, your 193cm human does not need thousand growth effects, why do you feel the need to emote looking down on people.
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Every single possible growth Item at the same time.
Also “Please no Drama” is a good indicator for the most dramatic person you will ever meet.
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Generally for me some big red flags would be things like seeing a list of “ignores X” or some kind of hostile or negative remarks in the OOC section.
As well as any “joke” bits in the pronouns section. I don’t mind people not using it, but if its used and not done seriously, it tends to be a pretty big red flag to me.
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Oh yes, just to add one of my own since I started this post. Warnings about RP like
“Character is rude. I am not.”
“Character is powerful attack at your own risk”
Stuff like that
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Jokes in the TRP3 pronoun field and stuff of that nature (IRL bigotry in people’s TRPs in general)
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This one is kind of weird to me that people do, because usually I feel like that should be a given. I know several people who play nasty characters but are total sweethearts OOC.
But it is weird if someone needs to address it beforehand like that. And as you said, can be a bit of a red flag due to this.
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If the conversation suddenly shifts suggestive after the first or second encounter.
Conversely if they suddenly ghost you after expressing no interest in the subject.
Other things people have already said such as insults to pronouns.
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‘Character is extremely powerful. Only start a fight if you’re willing to kill off your character.’ in general, but specially on a character that will actively try to pursue conflict with other player characters.
‘Why are you here?! This is land owned by my guild and you are trespassing! Get out or we’ll execute/arrest/attack/etc you!’ and it’s a canon location that’s inhabited in the lore.
‘Ignores the usual,’ not because it’s an ‘Ignores (x)’ statement in your OOC information, but because it’s such an empty statement just to seem above other roleplayers while not even being able to really pin down what it is you don’t want to interact with.
And, demanding to be given preferential treatment because you think your character is more infinitely powerful than the rest of the guild you’ve willingly joined, rather than being a good sport and playing by the rules or joining with a different character, but I am not sure if that’s a red flag any more than it’s genuinely mindboggling.
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I’m a red flag in RP
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This reminds me of the dude actually having a checklist of how many player characters his char killed already.
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You’re a HMP, that goes without saying 
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It ranges from the innocuous to the more direct in-your-face kind of flags of varying degrees. I try to always give every person the benefit of the doubt regardless of my own personal views, and I have yet to outright ignore anyone wanting to interact, even if they’re in my personal opinion a whole parade of red.
That said, there are the usual suspects:
- “Ignores X / See Blacklist in About” (The second one being particularly vicious, as it’s usually a micro-blog about people they want to hang out to dry.)
- “Only resolves battle/conflict with PvP” (This one is always extremely funny to see, as rare as it is. Usually only seen in the currentlies of people sporting full sets of PvP gear. You know why.)
- “Don’t take things soo seriously” (Most often found on the kind of folk that are absolutely insufferable, and have probably been called out enough times to warrant outright preemptively putting it in their currently)
- Any currently that is just a rant about the general state of either the community or the types of people in it, be it how everyone around them is OP, cringe, lorebreaking, or a mixture of things.
- Master’s Hat.
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Horde flags are mostly red!
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A more serious one - people who have an “urgency” to progress anything and everything , and act like your best buddy after 30 seconds of speaking.
I’ve found these types to be extremely frustrating to deal with, as they’re normally just trying to RP at you rather than with you.
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Trauma dumping is probably the biggest, in my experience. Everybody has their own issues to wrestle with in life, many simply do not wish to bring them up out of the blue, least of all around strangers on the internet.
Yet there are those who embrace the escapism angle of roleplay to an unhealthy degree, to the point where they are only seconds away from bringing up some very heavy topics such as suicide, drug use, alcohol or other similar issues.
This is particularly terrible when there is a significant age difference between those involved - I will always remember being a teenager and trying to navigate the personal problems of someone over twice my age.
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Amateurs.
The trick is to find a top-tier dad joke, and you put that at the top of your About page.
Then you make them scroll aaaaaaaaaall the way to the bottom for the punchline.
The one that always makes me raise an eyebrow - and this may be me just having been on the internet for too long and needing to log off and touch grass - is the profiles that say things like “Muggable/Attackable/Kidnappable”. It makes me wonder if, when taken up on this RP, they’re responding one-handed as someone stuffs their demure damsel character into a burlap sack to toss in a river… 
Then again maybe it’s entirely innocent and I have brain poison from too much internet!
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