(07-20-2017, 07:48 PM)Lydia Lightfoot Wrote: A lot of people don't use the search info or RP tag very effectively. Case in point: me. I never use the RP tag because I dislike that the kerning of the icon butts it up right against the start of my character's name, instead of giving a few pixels' space. It's totally idiotic of me that it bothers me, but yet it does, and so I don't use it out of some futile silent protest.
I am so glad I'm not the only one that doesn't have the tag on most of the time because the tag itself makes me twitch. Â (That and I forget to turn it on)
To answer previous stuff:Â
Forum posts often have these little tags like "(open)" as we see in several threads on this forum. Â For people really wanting it to be closed except for a group, there's often a disclaimer stating as such or a "[closed]" in the topic. Â You can give your thread context and control the venue in which it is shown. Â
Things in world, well, RP interaction is why we're on a RP server, isn't it? Â There are so many other private avenues available for private RP (party / whisper / fc chant / linkshell / etc) but only one in game for public RP. Â In my opinion the responsibility is on the speaker to limit their venue appropriately to where they wish it to be responded to. Â
If someone is going to talking / acting ICly within earshot of others they are putting their /say and /emotes into the public space and should expect others in the same public space to respond accordingly. Â
This is how organic roleplay works. Â
This is how you create a living, breathing world for our stories to interact in.
If a private/public conflict arises, the solution should be to politely inform that this wasn't meant to be public RP, and then to take the conversation to one of the many readily available private channels. Â It is a far simpler thing and far less restrictive of a thing to do that rather then to restrict all others from interaction in a public venue.
