Complaint/observation

[Karyuu]

Induane: I was referring to your modified sentence. I understood it just fine, especially when you take into consideration that in roleplay characters have accents and different speech patterns. If a character has the tendency to make a redundant statement here and there, are you going to fault the player? I understand what you mean about punctuation, and I completely agree. But that's not what I'm posting about.
Zan: I'm not on the GM team. The reason I'm holding off from commenting is because I'm in no position to - I have no idea what happened, why it happened, etc. So I too am going to wait for a statement from the GM team and take it from there.

[Induane]

hostile GM team takeover attempts + acraigs law = no more RM team = decline of sponsored rp

^ simplified version

* Note: acraigs law was a name given to a term and while it was attributed as from him I believe the law was instituted when he was fed information from an unreliable source that was false so I'm not trying to point out acraig or blame him for anything, its just that most of the GM's who were around at that moment will know exactly what that means.

I understood it just fine, especially when you take into consideration that in roleplay characters have accents and different speech patterns. If a character has the tendency to make a redundant statement here and there, are you going to fault the player?

If I judge the rest of the RP session correctly from the snippets posted then I think to assume some intentional speech pattern of a character is giving it a bit too much credit   I do start taking those things into account as RP becomes more in depth and I get swept into stories, but you have to immerse people first. 

In any case I'm nitpicking again    I do look forward to a GM team member to post, particularly one who was around when a hostile attempt by a few people to remove pogo from GM team leadership.
Ahh politics!

Zan: I'm not on the GM team. The reason I'm holding off from commenting is because I'm in no position to - I have no idea what happened, why it happened, etc. So I too am going to wait for a statement from the GM team and take it from there.

That takes some integrity Many people like to hold opinions about things they aren't really in a position to understand and then defend them like crazy. ( I'm sure I'm guilty of this. )

[Draklar]

Hmm... One problem I've seen here is the actual lack of speech pattern. I mean, there's no pattern that may allow you to figure the character out. Instead it's very random. For example:
OK and m'lady used in same sentence. One thing "OK" is not a word -> "okay" is more correct.
But the problem is, "okay" belongs to lower speech, whereas "m'lady" to higher. Normally you'd expect "m'lady" connected with "very well" or some such. "All right" could do, but I think it's very neutral. Things like that are making a pattern. If it's random, it can be very disruptive.

Said that, I appreciate attempts at creating speech different from the casual English. It can take you away from the same old boring version you hear everyday. However, I think this requires a bit more effort. And I won't really lash out at punctuation and grammar. I don't like it when it isn't used properly, but I had it much worse when I first came to Planeshift. Still, I'm not sure if this goes well with the GM function, especially if they took over the RM part of the deal.

[Kerol]

Official reply from the GM team

#1: This event was approved and carried out as such. It is an exception to the rule to introduce further plot elements and requires no further explanation.

#2: We will raise our efforts regarding correct grammar and spelling within the context of events.

#3 We will no longer tolerate any /tells during an event that are not absolutely required, since such distractions cause additional stress and raise the probability of making mistakes a lot.

With kind regards,
Your GM team

[Vengeance]

Seems to me that the easy way to reduce complaints about spelling and "RP depth" is to simply not do any more events.

If you are annoyed by them, go somewhere else or logout.

If you are someone who supports the idea of GM events, you should be *encouraging* more events, not discouraging them by complaining about the few that get done.

Just my $.02,
Vengeance