oh, not at all, i’m quite fond of discussions like this even though i’m sure it’s gonna make me sound like a bitch so i wanna preface this to anyone who reads it with: these are opinions and as such there’s no right or wrong and there is absolutely nothing wrong with disagreeing with me, and also this isn’t a call-out post, it’s just a general statement. also i just want to remind people that i don’t mean to give anyone crap about their formatting choices and that my disappointment from before stemmed not from a lack of formatting but from a lack of effort on literally all aspects.

my stance on that is, i think there’s a line between formatting and over-formatting. i’ve noticed that the latter is usually used by people who…tend to overuse the thesaurus, and sometimes i do wonder if all the bolds and italics and the fancy word stuff is necessary.

like, personally, i don’t like to spend to much time with formatting. like, personally, if i have to spend more than two minutes formatting a post, then, to me, it feels like wasting time, because at the end of the day, i’m here to roleplay, not to embellish stuff. you know how i used to format my posts before the update– i had my little template with the heart on a notepad doc and i copied it and just wrote away normally. i didn’t spend much time on it. i tried doing the stanza thing, y'know, with all the line breaks– but it was too much effort and it didn’t reflect what i wanted to be about, so i ditched it.

but then i feel like there’s nothing wrong with just throwing in small text or an indent or sth. there’s nothing wrong with being aesthetically pleasing. throwing in a <small> doesn’t really feel like being ‘too concerned with the pretties’.