On another site I am on for roleplay, I have seen someone express their dislike for their character being given things in roleplays with no story or anything, but because they’re friends ooc or the other person likes them outside of roleplay.
This same person also said their oc doesn’t exactly like it, but accepts it and doesn’t bring up their issue with it both in nor out of character. I told them to just tell them that he wasn’t too fond of that and prefers a story to be built around that item being given to their character as a result of their storyline like near the end or at the end if they truly disliked being given items just because “We are friends ooc and no other reason”. He chose to block me after making an indirect status involving what I said and tried to spin it as though I was being super rude and negative to him when I merely said they’d understand if they respected you as a fellow rper as much as they claim to, they would stop making characters and giving you super high tier items from those characters’ universes just because they like you ooc or are friends with you, who write the character. They will not be mad or anything because they will see it for what it is, a disservice to you as a roleplayer / writer and to your character as well as theirs since they are writing the characters so out of character just to do that.
I personally see it as a great way to ruin any kind of character growth/development as well as doing more harm than good for the growth of the person as a writer and can in fact make them regress as one. at the end of the day, roleplay is heavy on improv, characterization, and for quite a few more so storytelling. If you’re one of those who want to spend years honing and crafting your oc / storywriting skills stuff like that, especially those who are considered good on that site will not help, but do harm to their writing growth.
I’m not mad, just disappointed in someone I’ve known for years to do that in addition to also criticizing someone else’s writing, but is very unwilling to take any when it’s directed towards himself. Like, rule of thumb, don’t give out criticism if you, yourself cannot handle it. It is what it is.