Meta gaming has a couple of accepted definitions and uses. The first one that comes to mind is the negative one: Abusing knowledge that your character doesn't have access to but the player does. This can mean people diving into your wiki page and using details that aren't widely known to try and impose upon you, or will reference a roleplay that they weren't present for yet somehow know all the details to. There's unfortunately a lot of instances of that happening; People will read a thread here and then just start talking about the events as if they had any right to be included in them. This sort of behavior is usually a big turn-off.
The neutral term is when the player will make decisions for the character specifically to benefit the character. This could be as simple as seeing someone on your friend's list in a specific place and then your character just so happens to also show up there. It's a convenient excuse for people to otherwise get together without needing to "justify" it. Telling someone to meet you somewhere and letting them puzzle out what they were doing there is an example; The decision was made OOCly and it's up to the character to come up with an in-character reason. Most people are pretty chill about this method.
Finally, I'd answer your questions but everyone who roleplays with me knows the truth: I don't approach anyone.
The neutral term is when the player will make decisions for the character specifically to benefit the character. This could be as simple as seeing someone on your friend's list in a specific place and then your character just so happens to also show up there. It's a convenient excuse for people to otherwise get together without needing to "justify" it. Telling someone to meet you somewhere and letting them puzzle out what they were doing there is an example; The decision was made OOCly and it's up to the character to come up with an in-character reason. Most people are pretty chill about this method.
Finally, I'd answer your questions but everyone who roleplays with me knows the truth: I don't approach anyone.
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