User blog comment:Faeyrin/A question of common sense./@comment-4517309-20131024045320

I understand what you mean. I know with other games, certain servers are /set/ to roleplaying only. Which means if you're online and in that world, you're in-character. Although I think Runescape is different due to the lower level of maturity, and the lack of roleplayers in a whole. If we wanted to push for a roleplaying world, where everyone had to be in-character, it probably only have around 200 people on it. It wouldn't work. People will always be OOC, either waiting for someone to come join them to roleplay, or to work on their stats. It would be impossible to dictate which servers people can and cannot play on.

And as for the roleplaying message, it's basically to inform new people to the world that if they see others acting in a weird way, or ignoring them, it's due to the fact that they're roleplaying. If people don't like it, they can choose a different world.