(07-27-2013, 11:00 AM)FreelanceWizard Wrote:Â AMEN! SIR, AMEN!(07-24-2013, 01:20 PM)Wolf Wrote: Intervening worries me a little. I'd like to try and do it if I think my character would naturally involve themselves but I'd be worried about upsetting the actual RP'ers.
"Why is this guy barging into our scene and spoiling the moment..?"
I'm going to be angry and soapbox-y here for a minute (again, actually) -- not at you, but at the people who engage in behavior like your italicized quote and have promoted it as acceptable behavior. This whole concept of "you're barging into my public scene and that's not okay" needs to be crushed, smashed, incinerated, and tossed into the depths of the sea, because it's a toxic, evil concept that starts RP communities down the road to ruin.
If a group of people are RPing in public, their characters are in public*. The IC consequence for their IC action is that people might come up and engage them. If they get angry at you OOC for doing so, if they think you're barging into their scene and ruining it, if they act like it's some huge imposition for you to talk to them (OOC): they're bad RPers, period. They're ignoring ICA=ICC, they're non-consenting things that exist in the world, they're not keeping the IC/OOC line, and they're being cliquish jerks besides.
So -- get involved. Talk to people. (Feel free to interact with my character anytime, anywhere.
(* - Public being defined as "obviously public." There's public, and then there's not exactly public, and that's a function of how far away are they from where people normally are and whether they're using private channels like /party. Good judgment applies and a /tell can clarify things if need be.)
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I 10000 percent agree wit this. If you are participating in public rp and you ignore on someone on purpose YOU ARE A BAD ROLEPLAYER! Yes yes you are!
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*mumbles: Shoot don't be bringing that cliquish crap to the server I'm playing on I'll tell you that...
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