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(12-18-2016, 07:43 PM)Skae Wrote:(12-18-2016, 07:26 PM)Kilieit Wrote: Please read the reasoning people have stated for why they "ignore" people (this word suggests intent, which is a false assumption) at big events. It was stated quite clearly and repeatedly, by multiple posters.
Why do people go to big events instead of staying home, and then RP privately? Simple: change of scenery. It provides a backdrop for something a little different. And as Faye described, it allows the culmination of OOC connections into IC ones (different from cold-call walkups!) that won't occur if you just stay in your FC room and pretend you're at a gala.
If they deliberately turn off /say and /em (as some people say they do), then the ignoring is most certainly intentional - and quite rude in my book.
Are you really saying people go to big events just to use all the other player characters there as scenery backdrop?
People don't turn off /say and /em (at least, I haven't met anyone who does to my knowledge). The chat window has different tabs. People may be in a chat tab that does not have /em and /say active and occasionally check back to a tab that does to see if they've missed anything (particularly if they notice someone standing near them or targeting them), or they may float out the tab with /say and /em to have it active to glance at, but primarily pay attention to the tab in which they're RPing. No one is using other player characters as scenery, they are going to the event for "a change of scenery" as in the sense that everyone at any event is there for that very reason, whether they're RPing in /say or elsewhere.
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