The Law of Respect;

[xennie]

This is the Internet

In real life, respect comes and goes with people who have high standards and a great level of maturity. People who earn respect have done something to get it.

The internet, however, is very different, as you all know. Through a screen we all have the ability to hide and conceal our true identities. Through roleplay, we show pieces of our true selves through our characters and unite as friends for something we all enjoy doing.

For staff and designers, though, life can be very different.

I am not all knowing in this, but from my few years of experience as a staff and roleplayer, I have observed many peculiar things about people and how they act on a roleplay site.

For those that are interested, please take the time to read this guide and informational. It could prove helpful, but give you a realization in a more.. harsh way.

YOU ARE WHAT YOU MAKE YOURSELF TO BE

You do artwork and do codes, you type guidelines and information for people and expect them to respect and love you BUT THEY WON'T.

People will steal from you. People will criticize you. People will wipe your name in shit and stab you in the back to the point your life will have been demeaned to the extent of worthlessness despite your skill.

This part of earning respect, and everyone has to go through with it.


People are lazy, yes, and so much so that they cannot even accept the fact that if they want the respect they feel they deserve that they have to do something about it. They sit by and leave complaint after complaint to anyone and everyone without acknowledging the fact that no one knows how to respond in a situation as such. It isn't in the human nature for people to empathize with one another if both parties have not been through the same experience. But think of this...
No one here is like you. No one does what you do. Therefore, there is no one that understands you. You put yourself on a pedestal of your own work and knowledge and demand respect for this very reason. NO ONE knows what you know, or how you do it, and they cannot do what you do, and you want to be praised for that.
So when you come falling down from that pedestal, no one is going to care.. and not because they don't want to, but simply because they don't know how to show that they do.

DO NOT depend on another person to love and respect you on their own accord.
If you fall or stumble in your climb to glory, YOU need to be mature and take the pain because it is something that you NEED to go through to be a respectable person. You claim to have experience in a lot of things but YOU DO NOT, because you can't handle the Plight of Glory, and that is the thievery, the lies, the drama, and the disrespect that comes from people who are jealous or particularly don't like how you're already handling the dramatic situations that come from being "so fantastic that you need to be respected".

DO NOT pamper your enemies because your afraid of confrontation or because you want to avoid having problems with anyone. Problems are inevitable because asshole people lurk around every corner. You may not be an asshole person, but you'll definitely meet some. If you play "goodie goodie" with the asshole person, you will be seen as weak. Its very true, and thus people will find many more opportunities to step all over you.

We all want to be something great, yes, but you cannot suddenly be that "great something" unless you DO SOMETHING to make yourself that way. You can complain and bitch all you want about how no one treats you the way you want them to, but it will never change anything. You can only do what you know how to do anyways, and if you have as much experience as you are telling yourself and others, you'll be able to become what you want to become without having to bitch about it. Eventually people will see you as that special something because your acting that way.

Take the hatred that people give to you with pride! It helps build your character and strengthen you! You can better learn to defend yourself and better learn how to handle certain situations. You can't depend on anyone to be there for you and be by your side all the time because they won't, and if they do happen to be there, then damn, you have a pretty great and rare fucking friend, but aside from that, forget about help, because you don't have any.


I'll end my rant here, but seriously... -.-