Have you ever met that person who joins a site like six months after you do- and is about half as active. And one day, when the site gets to that 'place' where everyone is pretty darn close knit and they start in with ages. Every site gets there. Someone posts the 'picture' thread, some else posts an age thread - some one else posts a gender thread - you all KNOW the place- this sites there in fact.

You post how old you are- and everyone is kind of suprised. Then someone asks a question, and you try and answer it. And that PERSON you know the one I'm talking about, jumps in and starts yelling about how your wrong and they've been doing this YEARS longer than you, and so they know better than you do obviously.

Mind you, before they knew how old you were they were nice to you, and they RP'ed with you and all that- then they find out your a few years younger and BOOM suddenly they treat you like your five- and can't tie your own shoes or something.

I hate that- and it doesn't help that I'm often the youngest person on a site- so I get it a LOT. That person who thinks their better than you because their older.

*huggles*

I'm 18 and I've still had people acting like that to me- doesn't help that I look closer to 12 than 18, but still. I feel for you :innocent:

I've never exactly met a person like that, but I can imagine what you mean. There was a guy who said stuff like that to me before he knew how old I was. XD He was always sucking up to one of the admins, and he actually "liked" her or something, and I'd been friends with her about a year before he'd even met either of us. And he was reluctant to even talk to me, despite my best efforts to try and have a conversation. But it was because he thought I was trying to shove him out of the way and steal the limelight. Then he found out that I was six years younger than the admin and seemed to shut up. XD He didn't talk to me after, but I suppose that's better than being criticized.

But I did kind of have the problem that you had regarding graphics. There was this guy, always named every character he had "Seifer" and made them as some kind of invicible super guy that everyone could be friends with. But he NEVER roleplayed. I had one of those signature shop thingies in a graphic forum, and I offered to make graphics for people who couldn't make their own, and he posted in my shop something along the lines of "LOL yeah nice. i can make a better one if you want?" i never liked him because he never posted anything other than that; i'd only been making graphics for a month at the time; i had - and still have - fireworks; i was unaware of the fact that i could find tutorials and whatnot online, so i simply had to improvise and mess around with fireworks to see what i could do. but he still flamed my graphics. and then after i banned him, even if i banned his ip, he'd come back. he'd use something to change his ip. and it was all just.. bleh.

You can see that I was pretty bugged by that, because when I get annoyed, I start to stop using capital letters. XD

i understand it completely, being 17 I'm nearly always the youngest. But, I've found that people don't really treat me much differently in comparison to other members. Maybe because we don't argue, like, ever? I think that person is just using your age as an excuse to undermine your arguement, and when they do, call them on it. If they maintain that they have more experience, you could always say that you have more talent. Of course, that makes you arrogant...

Sorry, not very helpful.

I'm fourteen.

My profiles usually tell you i'm seventeen or eighteen. Why? Read the first post.

Whats even worse, is when, before I answer the question, I cross refrence the books that the answer would have to come from, before I tell you the answer.

Yes, I own ALL of the series, and I remember the weirdest detials. guess what? Your the only one who DOESN'T remember that part. Even the Admin, who admits to not have the books at the moment, remembers something about it.

Please, stop being an arogant jerk, and admit you were wrong.

Oh, and thank you for almost getting me banned from the chat. Thankfully you forgot the Admin was logged in and could read the whole arguement.

Even worse than all of the above?

I ended up having to be the one to bite the bullet and appologize. And the only thing she said was 'ok'.

Heh. I'm used to being older than the majority of roleplayers..and it's the YOUNGER people treating ME like that. It gets annoying fast.

I supose some people would twist it the other way, hm. Yes, it gets annoying very, very quickly.

Yeah. Especially when they consider themselves 'advanced' and my attention span doesn't allow me to write a novel XD.

<3s the teenager who askes your age so they can lie about their age and feel speshal...

No, really, they're so hilarious.

I find it amusing and quite amazing that the youngest, least experienced rpers can be the friendliest and most patient folks. Then you get someone who's older and more experienced, acting like God's gift to the world as soon as that young, inexperienced member comes. And with just the right training, sometimes the younger rper will become better than the snotty older one. ^_^

No, not really. I'm usually among the oldest members on any roleplay I join nowadays, being 25, but I can imagine something like that happening in general. Or how exasperating it must be. We don't have such issues on my board, from what I've seen anyhow, nor has anyone complained about something like this happening to them. Most people go ahead and give out their age while introducing themselves upon joining, since we have an Introduction thread and all. But there's no 'you're younger so I know better' going on. In fact, most people act like they're younger than their age while chatting away in the cbox ;D

What I have seen, however, is people refusing to roleplay mature threads with members younger than 18. Frankly, I don't see anything wrong in that.

I've found that the most antisocial and just-plain-mean RPers tend to be on the older end of the spectrum, and it isn't hard to figure out why, if you really think about it...

At the same time, there are certain prejudices that occasionally hold true for younger RPers.

Still, I've found that time cures all things, and what time hasn't cured (older RPers) just gets worse. Blegh!

ED: vision_afar, I totally agree with you. I myself am not comfortable RPing mature scenes (well, in general, first off) with players younger than 17--state law in MA, at least as far as real life is concerned, and it is a good guideline.

Goodness me. o.O I've never seen that. But I have played mature threads before, and I'm sixteen, so...once I learned how to do them, which was about two years ago, I've been at ease ever since. I just can't do it if I'm the boy...it feels dirty.

I remember the first time I stumbled across roleplaying and I was completely boggled by the flow of it all. And even then at twelve I noticed the several prejudices that the older rpers held for the younger. I, however, was very fortunate I found the best first site I could ask for and was immediately welcomed into the older member's world. I learned a lot. Not just about roleplaying either but life in general.

So basically what I'm saying is that I've never had a true problem with 'that person'. And I wear my age proudly, whether they think I'm lesser than them or not. Because, well in all sense if I can look past the prejudice they are giving me and move beyond their petty beliefs than doesn't that make me the more mature one?

-shrugs- It's all in how you look at it I suppose.

I'm 17 and I'm in mature RPGs exclusively. I have never done a sex scene or anything like that because it hasn't happened, although, I have one thread where it has been predecided that it will happen. Solution so the other RPer doesn't feel weird? Fade to black, simple.

However, if you're going to feel weird about even doing that, or RPing stuff such as kissing etc, than maybe you should stop thinking about the member as having an age at all. Think about the characters.

Although there's really nothing to be done. If you feel weird, you feel weird. A shame, but there it is.

I do not like doing sexual scenes with younger members. Especially if they are under 18. Also, I'm pretty sure you can get in trouble for that should anyone decide that you need to be in trouble for it. Because as the world sees it, you are having a cyber sex with a minor, role play or not, since plenty of people do that in the bedroom too. So, I don't, or try not to. But I also don't tend to ask the age of those I play with.

As for the whole old people being mean to young people, I don't tend to be like that. I mean to people because of who they are, not their age. I've known some very sophisticated teenagers, and I've known some positively immature crappy ones (who were usually mothers as well).

But I have seen older players dogging on younger players simply because of age. Which I find kind of silly. It's the same as hating n00bs just because you know, they're newbies. >< Stooopid.

I do remember when I was an underage player, I was doing adult scenes left and right. One time a person I was in an RPG with (my first ever forum game) asked me my age (she was 30) because she wanted to know, and make sure I would be ok with some of the crazy stuff on the forum. It was allll good.

Oooh. I haven't had an adult scene in a game in ages. Aww.

Love scenes with minors is very strange, even though they're usually playing someone older. I wouldn't be able to do anything with a 13 year old in real life, why the internet?

As for rude people in general, I FLIPPIN HATE THEM! I've been admin to the same site for YEARS, and I'm still young and obviously goofy. But this old guy (okay...not THAT old) and tried to boss me around and tell me how to run my site just because he knew my age. He always tried to find one mistake in everything I did. Like..."oh, that's not part of history, so you shouldn't have that," "The board color is iritating my eyes, so you must change it, as well as the length of the board." You know, he actually complained and said that he didn't like to scroll as much because he didn't have to on his board? GAH!

Sorry, I'm starting to get heated ><

We have a range of about 15 to (not kidding) 52 on Tally. So age differences aren't really a problem. We don't actually have an age thread, but we have a fair idea of how old everyone else is, it doesn't really matter to anyone. The average is around 18-21.

But I've never actually encountered that phenomenon. Possibly because when I started everyone was walking around like they were gods gift, and bashing everyone regardless of talent or lack there of. XD Age wasn't an issue in it then, still isn't now. At least for me, but sorry to hear your problem!