For the life of me, I never will understand the hate that roleplaying threads get. Yes, every thread made pushes another thread off the board. Another thread that usually isn't being used, or, in a slightly better scenario, another thread that's reached its bump limit and had its users move on to the next thread. And yes, a lot of roleplays go creepy places, and attract people who like to go creepy places. I remember one time, in an IRC ERP-oriented room descended from a /vp/ roleplay (one that I wasn't in, an IRC that I'd joined after leaving another IRC room descended from another /vp/ roleplay), there was an anthropomorphic Lugia with a strap-on, a hermaphroditic anthropomorphic Dialga, a young girl who turned into a young boy, Cynthia, and a psychologically childish extreme omnisexual human male who might have actually been a Golurk. No, I didn't participate. I called it a /d/fest and lamented the fact that I was just a few months from the legal drinking age.
But you know, while what goes on in roleplaying threads isn't quite original content in that most of it is dependent on personal interpretations, while it's definitely not as skilled as the artistically-oriented among us making drawfag threads, it's certainly more varied and imaginative than threads about breeding for Shinies and IVs. It's at least as original and varied as Showderp, perhaps even more so, and I actually really like Showderp.
While I'm not angry about the hate, I would like it explained why people hold such distaste for these threads. Other than the natural attraction RP threads hold for fetishists.
