Feral Heart

We all have encountered at least one. Lets set a scenario; you are ambling through Flourite on your new character, when you see an advertisement. A literate, mapped, long-termed and newly formed pack. It is just the perfect roleplay for you! You dash to the other side of Flourite, and when you arrive the leader asks you for a roleplay sample, simple enough right? You type out a whole paragraph detailing your character running through the forest, being chased by some rival pack members. You check for errors until you can repeat the paragraph in your sleep and you send it off. You wait for a response and when it comes, your heart sinks. You are denied for a simple typo!

 This pretty much shows the pain some members of the community have to go through. One simple error, and someone rams them into the ground. I don't like to call them literate snobs, but that's pretty much what they are. Literate snobs are the players who hide out in their private maps and only come out to recruit. Now now, I'm not saying all mapped roleplayes contain literate snobs, but some do and the are hard to deal with.

So I was hanging out in AI and saw a Hetalia roleplay. So naturally I created a character and ask to join in. Mistake one. I realized that they are very VERY literate and have long, flowy sentences with no grammar mistakes as far as I could tell. I stayed mostly silent as they continued to roleplay. I made the mistake of interrupting one of the fans, as his post didn't fit in one of the chat-boxes and while he was typing the other paragraph, I had just finished mine so I sent it. Worst mistake yet. Long story short I got yelled at and I logged off.

This is one example, but I have one that kind of doesn't fit in with this category, but still is connected in some way.

I came to FH from WQ, in the summer of 2011. (Has it really been this long?) I was very, VERY illiterate and had joined a pack as just a generic white and black wolf and I thought no more of it since I had no idea of what was acceptable in this community and what was not. The roleplay was great, I made lots of friends and I learned my way around Flourite Plains. Then I learned about a rival pack that had moved in across the river. The Alpha of the pack was not happy about it, and in the roleplay, apparently, she ordered us to learn how to fight. I clearly didn't get this message and I got yelled at. I was just hanging around with my friend being, well, me. We got into this hour-long fight about me not doing my job and how I was going to get kicked out. My friend joined in, too, and the Alpha said I was illiterate and a powerplayer (?) and she gave me an example of a literate, "non-powerplay" post. Well, I think it was literate but it was definitely a powerplay. "She bit Shadow's face and threw her into the river." We yelled some more and my friend and I were kicked out.

Now, a few days ago I went hunting for a friend who was lost and I had happened to cross the area where that pack was located. I was in ear-shot and heard the very same Alpha speaking to her pack and I realized that over a year later, she was still not literate, and that post was just to make me feel bad. She is not literate, in fact she is more of a "semi-lit." I don't consider myself literate and I have mistakes, but at least I don't go around pretending I am.

Thoughts, opinions on this matter?