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

[Aylis]

You'd be hard pressed to find a roleplayer who would disagree that ERP shouldn't be in public chat. Generally people who do that are shunned by the majority of the community, and we even report them ourselves.

But reporting someone simply for roleplaying in /say is frivolous, and SE frowns on frivolous reports.

Yeah, I mean SE created the RP flag so RP'ers could easily get together, most of the games QOL features are designed with RP in mind, its easy to see SE loves RP'ers. Despite my opinions against FFXIV I've always told people that like RP that this is the place to go. You'd be hard pressed to find anyone that won't admit FFXIV is a RP'ers dream come true. SE more then likely is just gonna toss reports against RP'ers in the bin. Save for the extreme public ERP displays like you said but that's another story.

More so for the OP..

I was an rp'er back in 1.0 and my take on ERP has always been "don't ask, don't tell, keep it in private and behind closed doors". ERP can happen and be kinda fun if done right. By right and this is when it can be taken to the side of being taboo and frowned on. The question being "Is their a reason on a RP level for the ERP to even happen?" Its the difference of the characters being in a long term relationship that suddenly took a deeper meaning where ERP can be valid. To the wrong side of what amounts to a character just standing half naked in the Quicksands wearing a giant "F*** Me" sign around their necks. Or the ones who are just as bad and choose to go right to out of character for it. The "looking for cyber" players I blacklist without a second thought.