What is your view on RP or ERP and why is it so taboo within the community?

[basketofseals]

if it's a bannable offence it will encourage more people to do it privately, since it won't be reported if it's amongst themselves, and would only get reported if they decided to erp in public areas, as it's no secret that some people do erp in public chat/areas

Who are all these people that are apparently ERPing in public areas? I've literally never seen this.

[Rokke]

Who are all these people that are apparently ERPing in public areas? I've literally never seen this.

its the balmung bogeyman lol

[ColorOfSakura]

Who are all these people that are apparently ERPing in public areas? I've literally never seen this.

99% of the time, the people who are "ERPing" in public are trolls that are being jerks just to make roleplayers bad. There are of course those exceptions, always, but more often than not, they're not actual roleplayers.

The problem is, when non-RPers see these people - they tend to just figure that they're normal roleplayers and have no idea of boundaries, so it leads to a lot of rumors about how RPers are.

Again - there are still actual roleplayers who are just creepy and gross and choose to ERP in public around people, but they're such an incredible minority of the overall community.

[Lissandra]

Who are all these people that are apparently ERPing in public areas? I've literally never seen this.

I've seen it once on Balmung and I hope I never do again. They were at a camp not too far from the aetheryte. I went along my merry way of course, because I didn't want to be subjected to erp in /say text.