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This is kinda on the vein of what I posted about on the first day I joined, about people who can't think up original user ids, aliases, profile names, screen names, whatever you call them.

My grumble today is about people who join an online play by email or message board post RP (role play, if you don't know) and then either create a character that is VERY similar to a real character from the setting you are RPing in, or they take on an already exsisting character but don't bother to try to play the character in-character, or, they want to play in your RP, but don't want to bother following your already-established rules or RP setting.

If that was confusing, here's an example:
I'm in a Star Wars RP, at the time our story was taking place 3 years after Episode 1: The Phantom Menace. One day this kid shows up and posts a message asking if he can play Darth Maul.
"Uh, no," we said, "Darth Maul is dead in the time frame we are playing in, he died 3 years ago."
"Oh, ok." the kid says, "then can I be Darth Vader?"
"Um, no, he doesn't exsist yet. You can play 12-year-old Anakin Skywalker if you'd like, no one's playing him yet."
"You guys are mean!" the kid says, "why won't you let me play Darth Vader or Darth Maul?"
"Because one's only 12 and the other's DEAD!"
"You're mean."

Then there's the guy who joined, decided to play Obi-Wan Kenobi, and in his first post says that Obi-Wan scribbles a note to his padawan apprentice saying "I'll be back soon, I'm going on a secret mission."

Needless to say the player got a little bit of a chewing-out about not playing in-character, a Jedi Master can't simply leave his apprentice behind like that.
In the end, I took over playing Anakin, so that the other guy could play Obi-Wan without having to play the apprentice too.

Anyway, that's my bit for today...