aliasMek, Tak
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I think direct discord plotting is a lot more effective than a want ad. Also, people will more often just hit someone up over PM/discord than respond to a plotter, at least as far as I've seen. I think sites just need to adapt with how much faster stuff is nowadays and have plotting areas in their discords. honestly, i've always viewed want ads as an entirely different animal to plotters, so to me, the shift to relying primarily on discord for most ooc interactions doesn't entirely explain why want ads are just not getting taken (since i don't know about anyone else, but i've always struggled to get want ads taken at all, whether it's four years ago or four weeks ago). i think some of it has to do with the want ads themselves - a lot of want ads tend to be either super loose (to the point where some of them really are things you can accomplish via hitting up a plotter) or super tight (to the point where some of them are more or less writing the character for you). it's hard to find ads that are in more of a middle ground, and while some people will prefer one style over another, there's definitely pros and cons to either. (i've always personally been a fan of looking for someone to play out a plot over a given character, but hey, that's me.)
which all that being said, i think a lot of it also comes down to rping just. becoming a lot more insular now than it was even two or three years ago. people mostly rp within their friend groups now, and most of the time in my experience, the fact that a want ad exists at all means that no one was interested in the concept when the person pitched it in their current friend group (or that they're not part of a friend group at all, which is a bit of a different animal, but i digress). i think a lot of people join sites with the thought of wanting to play out xyz former character they've had, and a lot of people just... don't check out the want ads anymore to see what would fit to work in with what they have in mind (which i personally can't blame them for, i run into that issue a lot since 90% of want ads i tend to find are super explicit on the character and don't have a lot of wiggle room in them to branch out).
like. i'm just one person and i'm just theorizing, but. this is my experience both in making want ads over all my years of rp and being someone who tends to browse through want ads on sites i'm looking at to see if i can pick any up to maximize my plotting potential. i could be entirely wrong about all of this, but. i think there's at least some truth to it and i'm way too easy to bribe into rambling about rp meta-analysis, oops. .... tl;dr want ads are a bit of a unique creature to start with and have always been difficult to get taken, most of them tend to exist because a concept isn't picked up by someone else in a friend group or because the requester doesn't have a friend group on the site, a lot of people people don't really browse want ads anymore because they have a set roster or plot arc in mind when they join a site, most rpers prefer to thread inside their friend groups and not branch out (or when they do, it's in plotters and threads, not want ads, which i kind of get, cuz that's commitment where you might not work out as partners). take your pick. it's probably some mixture of all of that. edit what the heck i thought this was in the rp confessions not the random thought thread oops uh lemme hide some of this rambling under a spoiler and add a tl;dr so it's not super long oops-
I've always seen a lot of wanted ads get claimed, be they mine or someone else's. I understand problems with friend groups and all but that's not a thing unique to plotters, it's pretty universal. Granted, most of the time I do see plotters taken up quickly it's on smaller sites, but I think that point still stands. All that said though, I also haven't seen or dealt with plotters in several months, at least.
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