Re: Newbie With a Question
It does depend on the game and what the GM wants when they set it up.
If posting length isn't explicitly stated (I find it usually isn't, I'm mostly a D&D gamer) then you would look to what the GM presents as "standard" by their own posts, and how they describe the game.
Most of the time the playerbase, however much they write in the beginning, will eventually align to the GM's posts.
Not in literal length, but proportionally. If the GM posts one paragraph routinely, then the players will do a couple sentences to a paragraph. One-liner for one-liner. There is sort of a give-and-take relationship that develops, a desire to at least put in a good amount of effort to match what others are putting in.
If it wasn't established intentionally that a game would be OK with short posts, then the conclusion tends to be that the GM is not giving the players enough of interest to work with (or they don't see it that way), and interest is waning in a game. That, or the GM was not evaluating the applicants to see about their writing abilities.
(P.S. Making firm posting restrictions as to 'words per post' is in my opinion not a good idea. You can have posting guidelines, but don't prescribe X words per post -- sometimes a short post is adequate or superior than a full page of text. EDIT: And you have to make allowances for restricted amount of time to post some days for some players.)
This message was last edited by the user at 22:56, Thu 18 Sept 2014.