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thoughts on reusing starters?

tomuyan

tomuyan

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Lately I've been writing a starter for a roleplay that hasn't even started yet, sort of as a writing sample, sort of as a way to get a feel for my characters, sort of as a way to dust off the rust so to speak. So far, it's more scene setting than anything else, and has no reference to an opposing character that my potential partner would play, but would it be weird to hypothetically use it as an intro for more than one person? does that opinion change whether you've been made aware up front that it's been recycled perhaps two or three times?

I feel like myself personally would be disappointed if it wasn't disclosed if I found out by going through my partner's other threads after the fact, but on the other hand, I feel like it has potential as an interest check to include it in my request thread and then starting the roleplay from that.

i want to know what you think !!
 
I do that often. There are just a few elements you might need to change. Opening posts are hard work. Reuse them. As long as they are yours and not someone else’s.
 
Seranda said:
I do that often. There are just a few elements you might need to change. Opening posts are hard work. Reuse them. As long as they are yours and not someone else’s.
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oh my god, I hadn't ever considered the possibility of reusing someone else's starter. what a funny (horrible) thing to get blocked/reported for.
 
Seranda said:
I’d hunt you to the ends of the earth
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😂😂 and rightfully so !! luckily I genuinely enjoy writing my starters. to the point I end up offering to write like 99% of mine. setting the scene is fun !!
 
I think it's fine as long as you can separate the new RP from the old one you used the starter with! I've personally only done it a couple of times where I've been ghosted, so I've had literally no response from the starter that I feel slightly proud about. Even then, I usually end up re-writing half of it out of insecurity.
 
Every RP I do is unique, even if it comes from the same prompt, so the characters I make and thus intros I do are also unique, so I never reuse an intro/starter, but I can see the reasoning for doing it.

I think it's fine, just not something I do personally.
 
Carpe Diem said:
Every RP I do is unique, even if it comes from the same prompt, so the characters I make and thus intros I do are also unique, so I never reuse an intro/starter, but I can see the reasoning for doing it.

I think it's fine, just not something I do personally.
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ohh, I usually start my story ideas from looking at face claims and building off of that, so it's inverse from me!
 
I have no objections to doing so, especially when I'm trying for weeks to find someone to write with because the last four persons have all ghosted me either immediately after starting or right before. I don't have the will to write the same thing over and over again and would not feel offended if someone did so to me.
 
Nope, not me. Every starter I do is fresh, written exclusively for the RP I'm engaging in.
 
Honesty at this point, I’ve written starters that range from 300 words to 4,000 words depending on the plotting.

2/3s of them will don’t even get a response. So after plenty of fresh starters with no responses I’ll sometimes take parts or descriptions of old starters and then add in a few things here and there to make it fresh.

 
I do it often if a scenario is similarly and share I have a starter ready for this, it is just okay with the other user then I say you can do so. I have reused mine once or twice before, but it does includes edits and adding more text added on.
 
I wouldn't have an issue with someone doing this as long as it was actually relevant to the roleplay we had discussed. There's no sense in just throwing away good writing.
 
I definitely wouldn't mind my rp partner doing this, it's still his text after all. Heck, I wouldn't even mind someone using my starter (plagiarism is the highest form of flattery), but... it would be difficult pulling off, since they also had to adept to my writing style (better to steal the idea than the literal text for that reason).
 
Oh, I would definitely be opposed to someone using MY starter or plot idea. Plagiarism is against the rules on site but also just a d-bag move.
 
Hmm really? Maybe I don't really feel that attached to my posts then, as multiple people here seem against the idea. Not that I would ever steal another's post of course, but more for the aforementioned reason (and then I might just as well read a book I guess).
 
As someone who has constantly had their content stolen (RTs, mainly, but I don't know what people choose to re-use in PMs) it's a really shitty thing to do. If someone can't be creative enough to write their own content, they shouldn't be participating in this hobby.

I re-use my own starters all the time, though. Especially if the RP dies but I was keen on the idea.
 
I've never used the same starter twice, but I have, on occasion-- especially if talking about the same character, reused some of my old descriptions or paragraphs of it in old starters that never went anywhere. So I think it's alright to Frankenstein some bits of your work in new stories, but reusing the same exact starter feels like it's unlikely to ever happen. At least in my case, it's always an extremely collaborative process with my partners, and no one partner is going to want the exact same scene/scenario idea exactly so the starter just won't end up making any sense if that's the case!
 
Solo said:
As someone who has constantly had their content stolen (RTs, mainly, but I don't know what people choose to re-use in PMs) it's a really shitty thing to do. If someone can't be creative enough to write their own content, they shouldn't be participating in this hobby.

I re-use my own starters all the time, though. Especially if the RP dies but I was keen on the idea.
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Oh yeah, I can definitely understand how it must suck that your RT is stolen by someone else, also mainly because in that case someone else capitalises on your work, gaining the attention from other people reading their post (as in technical, they posted it, not as in it's their content) instead of your post.

As for plagirising content of other players in PM's, as you said you wouldn't know. I think mainly my argument would be, what would be the point then. Just like using AI for posts, why would I then even engage in the hobby in the first place? Well, aside from that I'd have to adapt to someone else's writing style for the rest of the rp.

So maybe it's kind of the same as what you think, only I don't have a principle objection against other players using my content in PM's. And of course, everybody should adhere to the rules.

Self-plagiarism is, imo, completely fine.
 
I personally never have. The closest I’ve come is having a plot reused. I might have used some of the same inspirations to start off, but it was still different. The stories are currently vastly different from each other as well.

As far as someone using my writing, I couldn’t care at all. I’m not sure how I’d ever even know. I don’t tend to read other people’s stories or the male request threads.
 
I feel like I might have at one point, but I would always have to tweak it. I think it makes more sense if it's a because you're seeking out one specific story. I personally don't think anyone would notice that it was used before. Unless it's so far off from the mark as what they were expecting.
 
I can't say I never have, but I usually only recycle my openers (with some light editing) if it's a situation where I got ghosted after writing that opener and it was for a plot/pairing that I was hyper craving. but in those situation I am telling the new partner that it's a pre-written opener that I will be using.
 
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