After recent events in our discord chat, I found myself browsing our site rules for a refresher. I recommend everyone does this occasionally. I want to present this suggestion in a cordial way without targeting people or pressing on someone for being guilty - but I'd like to suggest a change, as follows:
Our site rules mention metagaming, which is the taking of OOC knowledge to IC. However, the rules fail to mention metagaming's ugly step-sister which is generally referred to on other roleplaying sites as mixing. Mixing is when people take IC to OOC, and the example I'd like to use to point this out is this:
In a roleplay setting, there is a dark side, and that dark side is developed just like the light side by people who contribute ideas, bad guys, and other things. With these things, there are generally connections to hot topics ethical and moral debates, and concepts like totalitarian governments, eugenics, and genocide even. Just because someone deploys these deemed to be "evil" concepts or topics in RP does not mean that they are someone who believes in the practices of these things in real life. A fictional universe is going to have its bad guys, and its flaws, and I think having a rule about mixing helps protect those who work on adding some of the darker setting elements to our universe. We all need to remember that things are just roleplay, not to mention the historical background of Star Army is not the earth, meaning in the SARPiverse something that might be considered radically evil in our real world maybe be seen as just an everyday thing.
I think adding a clarification of this in the site rules will help people handle things a little more easier, with the respectful handling of other players and contributors to the site.
So I submit this suggestion for everyone's consideration. Upvote if you support it, and downvote if you don't. Either way, at least it was suggested.
Treat each other good.
Our site rules mention metagaming, which is the taking of OOC knowledge to IC. However, the rules fail to mention metagaming's ugly step-sister which is generally referred to on other roleplaying sites as mixing. Mixing is when people take IC to OOC, and the example I'd like to use to point this out is this:
In a roleplay setting, there is a dark side, and that dark side is developed just like the light side by people who contribute ideas, bad guys, and other things. With these things, there are generally connections to hot topics ethical and moral debates, and concepts like totalitarian governments, eugenics, and genocide even. Just because someone deploys these deemed to be "evil" concepts or topics in RP does not mean that they are someone who believes in the practices of these things in real life. A fictional universe is going to have its bad guys, and its flaws, and I think having a rule about mixing helps protect those who work on adding some of the darker setting elements to our universe. We all need to remember that things are just roleplay, not to mention the historical background of Star Army is not the earth, meaning in the SARPiverse something that might be considered radically evil in our real world maybe be seen as just an everyday thing.
I think adding a clarification of this in the site rules will help people handle things a little more easier, with the respectful handling of other players and contributors to the site.
So I submit this suggestion for everyone's consideration. Upvote if you support it, and downvote if you don't. Either way, at least it was suggested.
Treat each other good.