Cordovan, please update the Official Roleplaying rules and policy thread!

[Mirhaen]

I don't at all find that the transgressions on both sides were equal, though, and the whole weaponizing of rules argument feels just silly to me, so we'll probably disagree on that.

Yes I believe it does feel just silly to you, when you were not the target of it.

What I want is to keep real-life stuff out of /say, /emote, /shout and /regional.

I think most would agree with this, if not all indeed.

People may be generally decent, but still disrupt others. Not necessarily out of bad will, but because all playstyles and behaviour don't mix well. Then, throw those that are not decent into the mix, and the combination is deadly for a roleplaying environment.

Can agree with this as I was disrupted by RP that was done in a very bad tastes once, as I mentioned earlier. And I know couple of other examples that were brought to my attention via kin members and friends. At that time the decision was that we just gonna swallow it. I think those bad examples comes from tiny minority, seemingly bereft of imagination when they couldn't find anything better to role play. Point being, knife cuts both ways. We are disrupted sometimes also, but I do believe that you might get disrupted more often if you role play in a major hubs in lower level areas. One can see all kinds of people there, and some are rather ignorant. I have to commend our role playing hobbit and dwarven community. I never saw nor heard anything bad from them.

As for the names, as well as many other things, we all know it's a matter of taste and personal opinion. I am rooting for the relaxed policy on names, because people are generally very attached to it, and in the case of a transfer, well it's one of the last things they still have left... And I'm also personally fond of being able to recognize people by names. There are some people with such similar names that I struggle to tell them apart, and it really just adds to loss of a personality. I saw some questionable names in the RP community also, but it is against rules to give real examples in the forum. However I do agree that obviously inappropriate names should be taken care of.