I'd like to discourage...

[jcljules]

What about those massive, 2 page descriptions? It says 4-10 lines for a reason.

Amen.

QFT. When a description is under ten lines, I almost always read it and try to visualize the character. When its over ten lines, I don't.

[Cutthroat]

I do. Bigger the better.

I like imagining some details myself. It's not the size of the boat, but the motion of the ocean. I'm sure that phrase was invented for mdescs... I think...

[Adieren]

Mis-spelling your sdesc. Like... three times I saw it I typoed it. But soon after gave up. It's very hard to do nowadays. Red dotted lines means you got something wrong!

[Cutthroat]

Mis-spelling your sdesc. Like... three times I saw it I typoed it. But soon after gave up. It's very hard to do nowadays. Red dotted lines means you got something wrong!

Some common errors I've seen in sdescs over the past long while:

haird -> haired
weatherd -> weathered
khol -> kohl

Placing commas can make or break your sdesc. "the bright green-eyed woman" and "the bright, green-eyed woman" are two different things.

[Adieren]

Mis-spelling your sdesc. Like... three times I saw it I typoed it. But soon after gave up. It's very hard to do nowadays. Red dotted lines means you got something wrong!

Some common errors I've seen in sdescs over the past long while:

haird -> haired
weatherd -> weathered
khol -> kohl

Placing commas can make or break your sdesc. "the bright green-eyed woman" and "the bright, green-eyed woman" are two different things.

Try having to work closely with someone who has a glaring typo in her sdesc, and every time you see it, you die a little on the inside.

[The7DeadlyVenomz]

LOL

[jcljules]

...staff members from approving PCs with glaring typos in their short descriptions just to be nice. If I had a glaring typo in my short description, I'd want to be corrected as to not look dumb.

[brytta.leofa]

...staff members from approving PCs with glaring typos in their short descriptions just to be nice. If I had a glaring typo in my short description, I'd want to be corrected as to not look dumb.

Probably an oversight.  I've had an sdesc tweaked-and-approved in one step by staff before.

[Xagon]

On one of my PC's, an entire line of their mdesc was edited out and replaced. Though the change wasn't heartbreaking, nor did I consent to it, but it still gave me a little urge on the inside; "Did he really do that? WTFM8?!"

You know who you are, Mr "Perfectly suited ears for a dwarf!"

In the end, it didn't much matter. I enjoyed the PC after that tremendously.

[FantasyWriter]

I typo PC descriptions all the time... even had one of mine fixed because someone typoed it.

[Gobbleneck]

...staff members from approving PCs with glaring typos in their short descriptions just to be nice. If I had a glaring typo in my short description, I'd want to be corrected as to not look dumb.

Probably an oversight.  I've had an sdesc tweaked-and-approved in one step by staff before.

I've had a m-description where I forgot to .c and ended up having a whole page of two of the same descriptions.  And it got accepted.

It was horrible...

[Bluefae]

I've had a m-description where I forgot to .c and ended up having a whole page of two of the same descriptions.  And it got accepted.

It was horrible...

    Although not recent, I've seen this before.  God(dess) bless the Staff though, for what they do, even if some mistakes do occasionally slip through.

[Adieren]

I had a mdesc changed to be ungrammatically correct after it was adjusted for having the measurement "inches" on it. Even though in the docs it says inches are perfectly legit. Made me sad, but I didn't want to change the desc over that. 

[Jdr]

My mdesc is bigger than Zoltan's mdesc.

[Zoltan]

My mdesc is bigger than Zoltan's mdesc.

*compares length and girth... eventually* 

[LauraMars]

I dislike long mdescs.  I also dislike long eq lists, and eq lists that have items of wildly varying sdesc lengths stacked on top of each other, for example 'a red rose' on top of 'a dusty pair of chitin-ribbed leather sleeves.'

Sometimes life gets a little stressful.

[Gimfalisette]

You know, Laura, that same stuff bothers me. I'd like to discourage me from being bothered by it!

[Cutthroat]

eq lists that have items of wildly varying sdesc lengths stacked on top of each other, for example 'a red rose' on top of 'a dusty pair of chitin-ribbed leather sleeves'

Oh my God. I dress my PCs in such a way that this happens minimally, it annoys me so much.

[Ourla]

eq lists that have items of wildly varying sdesc lengths stacked on top of each other, for example 'a red rose' on top of 'a dusty pair of chitin-ribbed leather sleeves'

Oh my God. I dress my PCs in such a way that this happens minimally, it annoys me so much.

And here I thought I was the only one.

[Qzzrbl]

I do it on purpose sometimes.

[musashi]

eq lists that have items of wildly varying sdesc lengths stacked on top of each other, for example 'a red rose' on top of 'a dusty pair of chitin-ribbed leather sleeves'

Oh my God. I dress my PCs in such a way that this happens minimally, it annoys me so much.

And here I thought I was the only one.

Praise be to closed cloaks. I normally don't mind ... except when people were a ring on every single finger ... that's ... just jesus ...

[RogueGunslinger]

Everyone know a large staggered eq list means you're char is GG.

[Niamh]

I'd like to discourage using death and destruction as the answer to problems.  There are so many more creative solutions that can be so much more satisfying.

[DustMight]

I would like to discourage the sharing of OOC information - from players knowing who is playing which characters, to players knowing details of plots they are not involved in and player's characters knowing secrets that their characters have no right in knowing.

It frustrates me to no end.

[Thistle]

...staff members from approving PCs with glaring typos in their short descriptions just to be nice. If I had a glaring typo in my short description, I'd want to be corrected as to not look dumb.

Probably an oversight.  I've had an sdesc tweaked-and-approved in one step by staff before.

An oversight.  I spell check every app I approve and fix the typos.