Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4536066-20140428041456/@comment-24324199-20150714205130

Natalie Renderra wrote:

Lor-break wrote:

Cakeandcats4 wrote: When people don't want to RP with someone based on OOC feelings. '''Mixing. '''People in the community can suck OOC, but that doesn't mean I won't think they have a totally awesome character who I would want my own character to interact with. Some people have awful personalities but as a writer they're phenominal. Some people have cool characters, and that's that. I don't really agree with this myself, given how OOC sentiments can bleed into roleplay. Also, I'm not too big with interacting with people that abuse others, no matter how good of a writer they might be. As someone who has run into a lot of sexual harassers on other games and communities, that people keep interacting them just for their RP is actually one of the reasons why they stick around and refuse to change: because there are people around that they believe to be condoning their behavior through continuous interaction.

This. Probably one of the times I was most proud to say I was in Drazker's Kandarin was when he kicked a pervert for saying he had the hots for his daughter. Draz got some of my respect for that, regardless of the other stuff he did later. Though, it doesn't just extend to sexual ones, in my honest opinion.

Honestly my peeve is the exact opposite. That the community has rarely shown issue when people are being harassed to help those people out. I've seen it happen over and over, and it gets exhausting. There's so many people who either stand-by and watch/listen as someone has it happen. If you are content to roleplay with and support someone's roleplay, when they are hostile to other community members (Hell, even former members)? You're telling the harasser what they're doing is fine, and the victim that they are wrong.

This isn't High School, and giving people shit shouldn't have been tolerated. I'm not sure if that's changed, but from what I've been hearing from some friends still on 42? It hasn't. To defend my argument, I meant it more as (without naming names) if someone was chastizing me for role-playing with someone who is playing a Mahjarrat, to cite an example. Like maybe someone doesn't like RP'ing with someone over something petty, such as sexual orientation and so on. Maybe they're a Republican and you're a Democrat. Either way, it's taking those OOC things and saying you won't RP with them based on x that really isn't that bad. Awful personality? Meh, maybe the person in question sometimes burns down houses in their freetime, if they have a totally awesome character that brings spice to the table, maybe I would RP them as opposed to not RP'ing with them because of their odd hobby that is looked down upon. (Awful example, I know, it's hard)