I do use the words 'literate', and such, while advertising, but I don't label someone as such. I would never purposely try to put someone down and call them 'illiterate'.
When I was younger I used to be 'illiterate', sure. Only using the simpleminded words that children know, not capitalizing words at the beginning of sentences, using the actions symbols '-', '*', and '~'.
Now, what really irritates me, is what happened to me when I tried to join a simple role-play which was advertised as 'literate or semi-literate', I sent my role-play sample and I was flatly rejected for, apparently, being too 'literate'. Then they asked me if I usually role-played like that, and I said "Of course, otherwise I wouldn't have sent the sample in that format."
It also happened for being too 'illiterate' when I was younger. After being called 'illiterate' I stopped playing for a week, feeling too embarrassed to play, and after being called too 'literate', it was actually kind of funny if you ask me, I walked up to the other player's character and went "Okay, then. I guess that makes one less member of your pack. Unless you want me to turn into a '-hits no miss-' kind of person." They just simply ignored me, since I was raging a little.
-Shrug- But, whatever.
Y'know the groups that say 'in need of males/females/members', then why stick a literacy tag on the group? If you need more members of opposite sex, then why not ask someone of the specific sex which is 'over-accepted' to change, or something besides trying to get more members of the opposite sex which is needed, which you might get the 'over-accepted' sex. (Sorry if I confused anyone, Wolfie's just trying to make some logic out of it. ^^')
Another thing that irritates me with literacy tags is when someone thinks that a specific 'literacy range' has to have a post limit. If it's not listed in the advertising, most of the members probably won't think about posting a huge role-play sample if it's not demanded, I know I most likely wouldn't.
If a person who is 'literate' is averaged to post about three long passages, then I'm apparently in the 'semi-literate' range. I really only average out to post a simple few paragraphs, possibly three sentences at the least, which is how some people tag 'semi-literate' people. -Shrug-
Well, if I'm too 'literate' for that one role-play, then how would I qualify for the 'semi-literate' range? I've no clue, really. -Shrug-
~Wolfie