There is a lot to be said for actually reading the points of others before making your own, as not to appear uninformed of the discussion.

Don't feed the trolls, guys. Foxbat assumes way too much about what RPers want, and what they can or can't do without understanding the behavior he dislikes so much. Maybe if people who hate RP in public actually understood why it cannot be done in a /party or /linkshell, they may at least understand it. And I agree with a previous poster (sorry, at work so I can't go and take too much time pulling specific quotes) who said that /say and /shout are used way more frequently by Non-RPers, yet there is no outrage about them being inconsiderate of others.

The IC post was great. An amazing way to illustrate what someone who tries to RP and actually stay in character goes through.

I also don't fully understand why "I hate public RP chat = NO RP SERVER FOR YOU" ... I mean besides the fact that it's 2012 and the idea that not everyone is on board for this is already worrisome, especially if they are RPers themselves. Although, reading Aveline's post, I agree with her on the end result of wanting a nice community over all, but to me that would be more likely to happen on an RP friendly server than not.

If the dislike for public RP is at a critical point for you where you simply cannot play with it, hey - there will still be 9 other worlds for you to go to. Even if you're an RPer, and for some reason none of the OOC chatter gets to you but IC chatter does, to that degree, there is always that option. But I honestly DON'T think it's a big issue even for those who are bothered by it. I've still yet to receive an explanation how OOC chatter doesn't bother anyone and IC does.

I think trolls who dislike RPers use the 'public RP' as an excuse just so we don't get a server, where every other MMO has at least one. And RPers who dislike 'public RP' really seem to dislike larger parts of the RP community in general, and because of this, do not want to feel separated from their OOC world. I just hope they realize that typically even RP servers have tons of Non-RPers, who are generally nicer to RPers. Heck I even heard that many purely end-game groups go to RP servers just to avoid extra competition on regular servers.

While it may seem that 'public RP' is a topic related to having a server labeled as RP friendly, it's really not. Like I said before, this thread is meant to get SE to reply with regards to an earlier claim made about RP servers. I understand that it's easy to get swopped up in a discussion, but I feel like we should remain more on focus, and not let the trolls who wont be convinced otherwise anyway, distract us from our goal.

SE, we're still waiting on a reply~