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My recommendation, with the magic admin hat on, is that anyone on this thread who has problems with anyone else on this thread avail themselves of the Ignore List function, available in your Control Panel (click on your name, User CP, Buddy/Ignore List). That way, you simply won't see people you dislike, and any provocations you may observe in their posts won't be visible to you. That's one of the surest ways to not get into trouble if you clash with someone badly.
My hope is that this thread can get back on track.
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Taking the admin hat off, let me help get the thread back on track.
I can entirely commiserate with those who've gotten OOC flak for IC actions. I played a character who was a total rat bastard in City of Heroes, and when some of his more awful and cold manipulations came out (trading students of his school for mutants to bad guys in return for minor intel, but mostly just to get rid of annoying students, for instance), people who weren't involved started calling me a jerk and a manipulative ass, even when all parties involved knew what was going on and were fine with it. 
Even now, I sometimes have people who've seen me here on the RPC and then interacted with L'yhta say things like, "Wow, I expected your character to be totally different than she is," or "You're nothing like your forum persona." Well, yeah, of course; L'yhta is a character, and I'm not my character. I do sometimes wonder how many people think L'yhta is like whatever they think I'm like based on my RPC posts...
In my experience, OOC communication seems to help with these issues, since once people know you OOC, they tend to not take what your character does personally. Getting to know people OOC helps enforce the IC/OOC line, in my experience.
My recommendation, with the magic admin hat on, is that anyone on this thread who has problems with anyone else on this thread avail themselves of the Ignore List function, available in your Control Panel (click on your name, User CP, Buddy/Ignore List). That way, you simply won't see people you dislike, and any provocations you may observe in their posts won't be visible to you. That's one of the surest ways to not get into trouble if you clash with someone badly.
My hope is that this thread can get back on track.
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Taking the admin hat off, let me help get the thread back on track.
I can entirely commiserate with those who've gotten OOC flak for IC actions. I played a character who was a total rat bastard in City of Heroes, and when some of his more awful and cold manipulations came out (trading students of his school for mutants to bad guys in return for minor intel, but mostly just to get rid of annoying students, for instance), people who weren't involved started calling me a jerk and a manipulative ass, even when all parties involved knew what was going on and were fine with it. Even now, I sometimes have people who've seen me here on the RPC and then interacted with L'yhta say things like, "Wow, I expected your character to be totally different than she is," or "You're nothing like your forum persona." Well, yeah, of course; L'yhta is a character, and I'm not my character.
I do sometimes wonder how many people think L'yhta is like whatever they think I'm like based on my RPC posts...In my experience, OOC communication seems to help with these issues, since once people know you OOC, they tend to not take what your character does personally. Getting to know people OOC helps enforce the IC/OOC line, in my experience.
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Quality RP at low, low prices!
((about me | about L'yhta Mahre | L'yhta's desk | about Mysterium, the Ivory Tower: a heavy RP society of mages))