[Starry Neko]

I've denied apps multiple times. I know this sounds terrible but I was on a Shounen site for a year and that year was in the early years of Naruto RPing, so....I've got my horror stories there.

Lately though, I try not to deny so quickly. I often try to be encouraging- since there have been less and less people who generally try to fix their application after me pending it. I however have denied apps before and usually it's for trolling or lore-breaking (Including space-astronauts in a warrior cats setting for example). I think the most recent app I denied was like....over a year ago and I swear that was a troll app.

Newbies are sometimes really sweet and just need a nudge. Sometimes they think they're king of the world. Depending on which newbie this is, I either help or tell them that it's not the site for them. As time has gone on, I've cared less and less what people put on their app as long as they get the thing done. I don't think it's mean. It's your site, you're going to want to make sure you have a standard. There are plenty of sites out there- so there's always another chance for everyone.

[pascaline]

I've only ever denied four apps flat out:

1. I had to deny an app because the applicant wasn't a strong writer. Anyone remember the term 'literate rpg' being thrown around years ago? This site was a hard core literate rpg: the posting requirement was one page in Microsoft Word or Open Office, size 12 Times New Roman font and single space. If your post wasn't that long you did get in trouble, and if you weren't a great story teller - our OTMs were "best writer" "best story" etc. - people on the site weren't too willing to befriend you. The guy who applied was new to writing in general. I basically told him the site wasn't meant for beginners and suggested other sites to help Kindle his interests.

2. On the same Naruto rpg someone made a character that was a robot. Cool concept, except the player was a huge troll who pretended to be a robot IRL. I rejected the character cause as far as we knew robots don't produce Chakra and the player was weird as hell.

3. Same Naruto site. Basically we banned this guy for plagiarism and he liked to try and come back with a plagiarized character and new alias. Never worked.

4. Oh god this crazy bitch. This person tried out for a Canon on my site and her writing - and personality - was horrendous. Personally I have a very strict code that those selected for canons should be shining examples of what I want in players: good people, willing to role play with anyone, and good story tellers or at least willing to learn. This girl just... purple prose. All the purple prose. I could barely read her sample because I didn't even understand it. I had to reject the character as a canon and then I think I offered this girl to change her up and make her a regular character. She said yes and then changed her mind and left the site.

ESSENTIALLY WHAT HAPPENED NEXT is this girl comes back to the site pretending to be someone else and apping a character similar to the first. I ended up realizing it was her and rejecting that app flat out. And banning her.

[SIFR]

All the time. If it's a horrible app, or it's an app that doesn't fit into the setting, or it's overpowered, or what have you, I will reject it. Quality over quantity. However, I'm normally professional about it.

Let me tell you a story of the funniest moment of profile rejection I ever witnessed though. pascaline and kaido were mods with me at that site, they can back me up on this.

So, on a site that I ran, one of my closest friends was one of my mods. She wanted to help, had years of experience ( just not really in our community ), and she was fair but strict with profiles. She didn't accept half-assed jobs. She also had a very blunt sense of humour that frankly, can be offensive if you don't have a thick skin.

So, she had a profile that was truly horrendous one day. It was cliche, it was poorly written, really a nightmare, but I won't go into full details about it. We were all on Skype together, she went to tackle it, and within five minutes she was like, "... f**k this s**t I need a beer." and walked off.

Then she puts in her pending message, "I'm sorry this took so long, I needed a beer before I could finish the profile."

The profile rewrite turned into one of the best profiles she's ever seen in her modding career.

So yes, tell your people to rewrite what you don't like. You may just find a diamond in a pile of shit.

[Deleted]

I pended an app for two whole months. They fixed it weekly till we got it right.

I have 0 time for bad apps

[Deleted]

to expand on my at-work reply

I work really hard to maintain and build the world / site you rp on

i pretty much want you guys to just make things realistic and make it work

i'm p. lenient on most app stuff, i only ask that you try to make an actual character or bugger off

[Mad Madisson]

If you want to have a good time on your own site while roleplaying you definitely have to filter out players that don't size up to your standards. It might suck at times, and it might make you feel like you're not a nice person for denying them, but think about it... If you don't, what will your playground turn in to? It's better to kick out those that don't play well with others from the get go. Yeah, I would give people a chance to fix things. Tell them where their characters could improve. If they are willing to change it it's already a good sign that they're willing to try.

[ani]

I want to say that I don't, because I cannot recall a time where I have flat out told a person their character doesn't work. However, I will say that when I find characters so outright repulsive and unfitting on the site, I tend to create really big pending and somewhat nitpick-y lists in order to discourage them from trying to fit the character. This tends to have the same effect, with less guilt on my part. Which might not be a great thing, but it keeps the integrity of my sites together, so I couldn't care less.