I hate writing plot pages, largely bc I feel like people don’t read them. I’ve had a lot more luck with wanted ads, tbh. But will I still make plot pages? Sure. Do I expect to get literally any responses? No, not really. It’s been my experience that I have to approach people with plot ideas, versus the other way around. I don’t know if that’s just bc I don’t write plot pages in a compelling way, or what, but it feels almost pointless 90% of the time. People can’t seem to be bothered to read other people’s apps, and I don’t think they read shippers much either.

I like the concept of plot pages, but ultimately I find them to be incredibly tedious at best and pointless at worst. I definitely agree with the idea that I like wanted ads more than plot pages and that I don't really ever expect responses to them.

The application system I've come to prefer is a freeform, and then a "plot hooks" section. Just a few bullet points of what sort of relationships you want, or where your character might be found, or what interests they might have that could encourage interactions. I prefer this, because a lot of the times when I have a new muse I don't feel like I have enough "meat" for a plot page? I have a handful of ideas I think might be fun in broad strokes but until I've actually used them it feels like plot pages are kind of useless starting out.

The current format of plot pages was admittedly before my time, and it takes some adjustment now for me

Often what I used to do was to basically ask if anyone wanted to thread with my characters, then I’d read the character profiles of people who were all “yesss” and then present ideas that come up even if they didn’t have ideas. But that was mostly on sites where the ideas people had for characters were ones you could kinda glean from their profiles? If they had anything specific, they would make plot threads in the plot section of the forum, of course

But honestly most of my plots, back when I RP’d the most, happened spontaneously in open threads, and that’s ideal to me ...

Just, including what you want and throwing ideas out there, and openness for me to present my own, are what I really look for? I dunno, I’m the type of person who, if someone wants to write with me and I want to write with them (even though I have trouble approaching people first), I’m open to it

Should be noted I have yet to join a site that had those standardized plot pages (friends/enemies/lovers etc etc) so I can’t comment on how I feel about writing them. My idea of a plot page is to just throw a list of somewhat organized rambling out there for others to possibly latch onto while going “but also I’m open to other ideas so let me know!”