(07-08-2013, 01:42 PM)Spiritual Machine Wrote: There are certain things which are respectful to take liberties on, and certain things that can alienate people. And coming up with continuity via community consensus still serves to isolate members of the roleplay community, potentially. It's not about being restrictive, but about being courteous.
Absolutely.
Only a small percentage of RPers are going to ever participate in an RP community site, and of those, some percentage are going to disagree with your take or assert it false as a matter of principle. No matter how logical it may seem to be, someone is going to think it's wrong.
That said, there's nothing saying you can't make IC assertions in grey areas where the assertion, if true OOC, would force all others to conform. Our two "Magic" threads on metaphysics are a great example of this, where any or all of those theories could be true, and that's a basis for IC discussion. I can see, based on this thread, a table of scientifically-minded Eorzeans kicking back with snifters of Ul'dahn brandy and cigars and chatting about the unfortunate evolutionary error that produced the miqo'te.
That's the good kind of speculation in grey areas. Just don't claim the assertion is true OOC, and everything is good.
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