Gaia1

I am going with your initial question here.

There are several factors as to when I will report a person for an RP "rules" violation.

Take for example a certain SG that is still on the server on blue side yet they really should ship over to red. One of the new people to my own SG at the time got into an RP with them over in Atlas Park. They pretended to "capture" her and take her to their base. The idea was for my group to go in and rescue her after their team leader sent me a tell asking if this scenario was all right with me. (This was before AE) I was fine with it at first.

However what I proceeded to "hear" via broadcast chat within that base was enough for me to put a note into the GM's. They proceeded to graphically violate the new SG member's character. It angered me to the point of telling the opposing SG's team leader to either quit with what they were trying to RP or be reported. Instead he and his team decided making fun of "The old timer, stick in the mud" and other words not fit for print would be much more fun, along with graphically violating the violating the captured character.

Their "excuse" was they were RPing "exactly" what would happen in RL to a person if they were captured like that. My response was it is disgusting in RL and does not need to be done in a game ment for all ages. At that point I told the player that all of this was happening to to drop out of character and leave the base. Which she did and thanked me afterwords for helping her. Since the SG leader would not see reason I hit them with an ignore after they took things to a personal level via tells.

Which brings me to flaming tells. If a person wants to get into a fight via tells over something trivial, I warn them. I have a three strike policy. ON the third go round the ignore goes into place and you will have to communicate with me via one of the sites I am on.

Another thing is people who just do not understand, no matter how much I or team members try to teach them to RP they just do not "get it". I am always happy and willing to teach people to RP. I consider the 20-30days trial period on my teams to be a learning time and by the end of it you will have picked up the very basics of roleplaying. Yet, I have come across a few people in my time that just do not understand and get into fights then say its RP. This will guarantee you being kicked from supergroups and word of mouth travels fast.

The ones that really scare me though, are the ones who can not separate the fantasy from the reality. I have had to toss a few players for that because it became a stalking situation on team members. Having encountered the same situations in another game to the point of changing account names and erasing every character I had ever made I know what it is like to be stalked by someone who thinks your character is you. That is one situation where my claws come out. I notified the GM's as to what was happening. When player did something again he was reported and removed from the supergroup. His excuse "I was RPing" did not work.

Even if everyone only knows each other via looking at characters on a screen and being on a web board with them. It does not excuse behavior that would violate the ones own personal laws of ethics outside of the box. My advice to everyone is to think really hard on what actions you are doing and not just reacting to a situation.

I am sorry for being long winded but I just want everyone to be safe and have fun.