OP, I sympathise with your struggles, because dealing with RPers who are wildly mixing IC/OOC sucks. It's something that pops up in every RP community I've ever been in and is always pretty unpleasant.
That said, this entire thread kind of feels as though you had a very unpleasant experience with some folks and got angry enough to try and rally the RP community into a witch hunt. While I'm sure the people you had a poor experience with really are mixing IC/OOC and were giving you an unreasonably hard time, I play this game for fun and don't really have the time or energy to police other people's RP.
If someone is mixing IC/OOC or breaking other flagrant RP No-No's, I politely pull myself out of their RP and avoid them from then on. If it gets really bad - to the point where it is harassment, I simply blacklist them and move on. I recommend you do the same. The community as a whole may be small, but it's big enough where you can definitely find a solid group of awesome people to play with if you look. I certainly wouldn't alter my character and avoid describing people to avoid drama just because of all of this. The blacklist is way more useful when dealing with someone who would actually cause me trouble to the point where I can't even refer to them by name or by physical description.
I also can't stress ShayRei's advice on OOC communication strongly enough, not just for you - but for everyone. A loooooooot of problems in RP communities could be more easily resolved or averted if people were less skittish about just talking to each other OOC and having open, polite communication with one another.
Lastly, while I don't really judge people if they decide to ERP, I'm kinda wondering whether you're just looking for RP in the wrong places if running into futa is a growing trend or a legitimate problem for you.
That said, this entire thread kind of feels as though you had a very unpleasant experience with some folks and got angry enough to try and rally the RP community into a witch hunt. While I'm sure the people you had a poor experience with really are mixing IC/OOC and were giving you an unreasonably hard time, I play this game for fun and don't really have the time or energy to police other people's RP.
If someone is mixing IC/OOC or breaking other flagrant RP No-No's, I politely pull myself out of their RP and avoid them from then on. If it gets really bad - to the point where it is harassment, I simply blacklist them and move on. I recommend you do the same. The community as a whole may be small, but it's big enough where you can definitely find a solid group of awesome people to play with if you look. I certainly wouldn't alter my character and avoid describing people to avoid drama just because of all of this. The blacklist is way more useful when dealing with someone who would actually cause me trouble to the point where I can't even refer to them by name or by physical description.
I also can't stress ShayRei's advice on OOC communication strongly enough, not just for you - but for everyone. A loooooooot of problems in RP communities could be more easily resolved or averted if people were less skittish about just talking to each other OOC and having open, polite communication with one another.
Lastly, while I don't really judge people if they decide to ERP, I'm kinda wondering whether you're just looking for RP in the wrong places if running into futa is a growing trend or a legitimate problem for you.
