Thank you Oskar for posting this. Sorry to be late to the party but I just wanted to chime in with my own thoughts, which I'm sure mirror many of the views already posted. I think that a designated role-play "friendly" server would be a good thing and don't think it to be too unreasonable a request, particularly since Yoshi-P has already spoken on the matter. This also seems like a particularly opportune time to address this, what with the server merges set up to happen soon.

As has already been stated, I don't think anyone wants a "RP only" server, nor do I think anyone has any expectations that everyone on the server must role-play or anything like that. But having a little arrow or something to indicate to not only existing RPers but also those who might be interested in participating with us that X server has an established community of role-players would be valuable.

This works the other way as well. I know there are people who have particular notions about RPers - whether from stereotypes or from personal experiences - and feel negatively about joining such a server. While I agree with the sentiment that the vast majority of us as RPers tend to be pretty low-key and avoiding excessive use of /say and /emote in public areas, this is not always the case. People who are easily annoyed by this sort of thing can see that such-and-such a server has been designated as being friendly to RPers and may opt to choose another server instead, so as to avoid it.

This is a wonderful idea and I hope that it is given the consideration that it deserves.