Thread: What makes a successful request thread?

I read over this thread a bit and I figure it can't hurt to put my two cents in to the talk. Having read it, I think that Adam makes some legit points. To figure out what makes a successful request thread you must of course determine what you determine as successful before anything else you do. I would argue what successful is as being able to get the right rp partners for you to RP with. Then the goal of the rp request thread would be to get the right people to contact you and want to rip with you, using the ideas you want to use. How successful it is at this than is what I would consider a determining factor on if your request thread is successful. For the record, I consider myself a poor to below average writer most likely poor would be honest. So, I can say for a fact there are people who I won't even send a request to cause I consider them to good for me, and therefore I don't even bother sending a pm to request a pairing. Also likewise as a poor writer I know people who have directly or indirectly told me I wasn't good enough to rp with them and I avoid pming them too. I write with people who fall into my target audience and I'm fine with this. For some one who is a elite rper, they would want to create a thread that would get other elite rps to notice love one of their ideas and want to partner up for one of these ideas, short term or long term. They also, would therefore use this as a barrier to keep the inferior rper out a kind of barrier to entry into rping with someone. It does this by intimidation and set ups with lower skill writers may look at and go never mind and then hit the back button or if they do go on learn, they are not good enough and just ignore said rover and their threads from then on no matter what they say, thus it becomes successful in cutting down the numbers and the Rogers to the selected ones they want. This also works in the case of lower skilled rupees, they might just want self satisfaction from a short rap or some simple idea. Thus they put simple ideas out in search of the none elite rper. When they do this, they will find people who are like, oh if love this and this pairing and would love to try them. Where as it discourages the elite rper who hates that the thread lacks information and leaves, thus cutting their base to what they want, or at least people at their skill level. Thus either way it works out and the writer gains the target audience they are after. Of course it goes beyond this as well. Some of the short rps do well cause they use key words which draw the attention they want to their thread, I think these key words especially when placed in the title can have a large impact on the success of a rp thread especially when they draw eyes, then you have the break down I talked about before which takes place and the people not in their target audience leave and those in it stay. Also, what you put that you want will of course limit your target audience as well to those who like the same type of rps thus by having that you are more likely to be successful in finding what your after. Another fact is newness, I think in a lot of,cases people are naturally drawn to new rupees to see their ideas, whereas they might know the style of a old rper and thus don't look at their request cause they have a good idea what it will say or at least they think they do. Finally, gender plays a role, I think that it is much easier for females to get a lot of eyes on their threads then males. I think in ways it makes it much harder for females to find their target audience as they might be hit up by many people who just want to rp, and pm them or connect them just cause they have a thread never reading thought it. At the same time, much harder for males to get eye so their threads, which causes I would guess the general reply rate to a request thread by males to be lower. Thus they both would add a additional challenges to making a successful request thread. Well that is just my two cents anyhow.