ok you joined a forum, waited nearly a week and a half for you to be approved.

Then they tell you, you need some grammar work (in a rather..condescending school teacher way), and to go over the application and do a little more detail here and there.

Would you go over it again, or just toss it and try another rpg board?

Ditch that RPG.

A week and a half is far too long to wait. If the board is going to be that inactive and the modmins that inattentive then it isn't going to be a fun RP experience.

I might keep the character though, and use it somewhere else.

I would look around to make sure it wasn't a one time fluke aout the tardy-ness thing. Sometimes board owners have to leave for a bit, or things slip through the cracks. However, if the board is basically dead and it looks like there hasn't been any posts in a long time or at all, then I would jet. There's a lot of RPGS out there and there's no reason for you to stay there if that's how they treat their members (not even a sorry for the time! geez)

I suppose it depends how much you want to join that RP, how original it is, and if there are any others around that are likely to treat their members better that you could join.

Personally, I would never leave a potential member waiting any longer than three to five days for application or rejection, because to me that shows a certain arrogance, a 'I have enough people lined up to join my board that I don't mind upsetting one or two' mentality, if you will. And, if I did happen to be taking a little longer in replying, for whatever reason, I would certainly leave a message.

I completely agree, and that's what I would do too.

If, however, the admin had done that before, then being part of their board is not where I'd want to be. I'd keep my application saved, however, for use again. (happy)

It's been a while since I joined someone else's game, but first impressions are a big thing. Did they apologise for taking so long? Is this a 'normal' length of time to wait, judging from the dates between other posts? Is this their usual manner? I'm on a game that takes a long time to go through applications, and sometimes you will have to wait a week, but what you get back is a blow-by-blow account of what needs to be tightened, from start to finish.

The question is, can you fore go an attitude you perceived as condescending in light of the RPG itself?

In all fairness, grammar is a wide-spread paramedic amongst us roleplayers, and we know it, but it's not effective to tell someone that it needs grammar work without going through and picking out what is wrong and why. Go through your application, see where the grammatical errors are (reading it out loud helps) and make adjustments as you see them. Even if you don't want to stay at the game, amending the application will stop anyone else picking on your grammar.

Sometimes, boards of advanced (and sometimes wannabe-advanced, too) will require a lot more from you as a player - it will be considered common practice to comb through and make sure your spelling and grammar are good, and that your prose makes sense. This is done in the name of the game - to make everyone else's jobs easier when reading and responding to a post. It also saves face for the board itself.

At the end of the day, if you don't feel comfortable after all that, then move on to somewhere else.