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

[Jybril]

My main gripe with RP, especially on a server that is now getting flooded with it, is people doing it in public channels. RP in your own homes, RP in LS's or FC chat or parties, but don't do it in /say in public areas filled with people. Like, I don't want to have my chatlog filled with your bad fanfic dialog while I'm trying to go about my business in town. I blacklist anyone one who uses /say for RP purposes around me, because it is unbelievably rude and obnoxious, even moreso than the RMT spambots.

You wouldn't walk down a busy street shouting some random story right in the ears of everyone around you in real life, and you shouldn't do it the game either.

I absolutely adore people chatting in public. It makes the game feel very much alive and sometimes I would sit and read what people are up to if I'm just afking/tabbing.

Also your comparison actually is terrible because I don't usually hear people SHOUTING a story anywhere.
You're READING text online and you can blacklist them. Simple and easy.

[Haprimac]

I absolutely adore people chatting in public. It makes the game feel very much alive and sometimes I would sit and read what people are up to if I'm just afking/tabbing.

This reminds me of a time when I RPd with a friend in Gridania in say-chat and our characters were having a "deep conversation". After our RP session was over, I noticed there were several strangers who had gathered a little further away to watch us and one of them started cheering and clapping to us. It felt like we had just performed a play to them. XD Was fun.

[New_Game_Plus]

Sometimes I like to watch people RP in say chat in my server. Sometimes it's cringey, other times it's really interesting.