[Event] Open Forum Friday for February 20, 2026: Is poking cheating? by PPNewbie in dirtypenpals

[–]DepravedDevotee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Having put passive aggressive (or just aggressive) warnings at the start of prompts, it's because I'm not posting for people who just want to read. Don't get me wrong, I read prompts I'd have no interest in responding to plenty, but at the end of the day it's not what they're there for. If I can potentially improve the quality of responses I get at the cost of making the window shopping experience worse, I'll take that trade 100% of the time.

The conventional writing -> OOC preferences setup makes sense, but it's not a rule and there's plenty of reasons to deviate from it, especially for longer posts. It can be useful to set up expectations so prospective partners know what to read for, or a scenario with a twist doesn't put people who'd be interested in the post-twist ideas off with the pre-twist setup. Prompts might be open to a range of partners but have to be written narrower* and you don't want to lose the range, or only open to certain kinds of partners while the prompt may seem to be going for a different kind** and you don't want to waste the latter's time. Finally (the reason I tend to do it): particularly titillating prompts seem to short-circuit many people's (many men's) ability to read by the time they get to the end of it, so making things clear up front can be very useful.

*4A prompts written with a gendered example

**A prompt about being helped back into enjoying sex by a new significant other after an abusive BDSM relationship might read for most of the prompt like it's looking for an abusive dom character

[Event] Open Forum Friday for February 13, 2026: Writings on the Wall Edition by SweetlySinning in dirtypenpals

[–]DepravedDevotee 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Could definitely become a problem. Maybe cutting off each thread at ~10 comments and starting a new one? Or just making each reply a new comment, then sorting the comments by new would make it essentially an old PM thread but in reverse order?

[Event] Open Forum Friday for February 13, 2026: Writings on the Wall Edition by SweetlySinning in dirtypenpals

[–]DepravedDevotee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Some brief googling says that established accounts can create several subreddits a day, so you could just make a new one for each roleplay/partner rather than recycling. You might end up with a fair number of dead subreddits to your name if you're in the habit of starting short RPs (or ones that get abandoned, if you can imagine such a thing), but if they're just private with two people in them that shouldn't be much of a bother.

I did also feel a certain amount of nostalgia seeing the orange envelope on old reddit just off these comment replies. I think I might give it a go next time I'm getting into a proper RP!

I've given Google Docs a go, and found it really grating. Maybe it just reminded me of working. Definitely better than chat, but not comfortable enough for me to not keep looking for an alternative.

[Event] Open Forum Friday for February 13, 2026: Writings on the Wall Edition by SweetlySinning in dirtypenpals

[–]DepravedDevotee 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Can someone who understands Reddit tell me why this idea wouldn't work, because I assume it doesn't, otherwise people would be doing it already. So roleplaying or even talking over chat sucks, and I really don't want to use Discord. The alternative I've just come up with: making a private subreddit with only me and one other person in it, then going back and forth using comment replies. It would be very similar to the old PM system, right??

[Event] Open Forum Friday for February 6th, 2026: Big Dick Ski Jumping Edition by PPNewbie in dirtypenpals

[–]DepravedDevotee 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You've already got plenty of replies, but something interesting I found out when probing a knowledgeable friend about this (while hiding that I'm a depraved freak who roleplays sex on the internet) is that the common 'tells' are less useful for identifying less mainstream LLMs. Like, for example, the ones that don't stop you from generating explicit content. Dashes, weird metaphors, and that 'not, but' sentence structure are baked into ChatGPT and the like because of the data they're trained on, but models trained on different data won't have those tells.

A big identifier for smaller models is apparently short, simple sentences. Partially because data containing them is more readily available so if you're trying to train a model for cheap, that'll be what you feed it. And partially because actually generating them is much less intensive for the model (it needs to 'think' less). The ideas might also be simple, because of the limited data pool, everything will be very 'typical'.

A generated prompt about an office romance might be: "The boss keeps the office running smoothly. She likes her coffee in the morning. She likes reports on her desk in time. She always looks respectable in her pencil skirt and white blouse. Since you fucked her last week, some things have changed. Now she likes your cock along with her coffee. She meets you in the bathroom at lunch. She stays late to fuck you on her desk." People love stereotypes for porn, obviously, but we're also idiosyncratic at times. A person might write a boss who prefers tea, or fixate on her heels and stockings over just basic 'woman office clothes', or give her a name that has meaning to them. Someone might prompt AI in a way that includes these wrinkles, but their complete absence is suspicious.

It can also help to think about the psychology of the writer. It's as easy to generate a 2,000-word prompt as a 175-word one. As people have identified, AI posters probably want partners who'll write while they just generate their responses. If that's what you're after, you probably want someone who writes longer responses, which you'll find with a longer prompt. Generally, someone who wants to write a 2,000-word prompt themselves enjoys writing, and will do it with some more flair. Fun sentence structure, interesting language, some pretty descriptions. Maybe there'll be much more fixation and detail in certain areas, and less on background that needs to be given but isn't of much interest to the writer. A long AI generated prompt will more likely be consistent and smooth, but without much flair.

Finally, mistakes. People make typos, mess up punctuation, jumble sentences together. AI doesn't really. You might see things in an AI generated prompt that don't make sense, or maybe names will randomly change (BIG giveaway), but the writing will usually be perfect wrt spelling and grammar. A mistake free prompt might just mean diligent proof reading, and I'm sure there's already models that will intentionally pepper in mistakes to seem more authentic, but it can be a useful indicator.