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SnowTroll · 10-15-2012, 10:34 AM

This thread's back again?

Anyway, your response looks like you only skimmed it. I think everybody agrees, 100%, that if somebody does something that warrants IC action, IC action happens.

What do you do for some of the things that don't warrant IC action? The example this thread's been running with was a wedding where one of the non-participant guests who showed up was dominating the scene with poor OOC etiquette, but not dominating the scene in an IC manner. He was emoting long poses about how he sat, maybe cried or blew his nose, etc., and doing it with great frequency. Things that IC, wouldn't really draw that much attention to him or get him ousted, but OOC, were filling up the screen and drawing attention away from the main event. You can't yell at him IC for being noisy or distracting from the IC event when his last four-line emote is all about how he's sitting quietly. You also can't yell at him IC for emoting too frequely, not giving others a turn, and exercising poor OOC etiquette. He's only being disruptive and rude OOC, but IC, he's exhibiting normal behavior for the scene.

I have no doubt your mud's players would go all inner city cyberpunk on a guy who was disrupting rp, and a lot of people have suggested similar approaches, but would it really be right to react that way to somebody who was being totally appropriate and making all the right moves IC, but was doing it in an OOCly annoying way?

10-15-2012, 10:34 AM	#55
SnowTroll Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 183	Re: Dealing with RP Attention Hogs This thread's back again? Anyway, your response looks like you only skimmed it. I think everybody agrees, 100%, that if somebody does something that warrants IC action, IC action happens. What do you do for some of the things that don't warrant IC action? The example this thread's been running with was a wedding where one of the non-participant guests who showed up was dominating the scene with poor OOC etiquette, but not dominating the scene in an IC manner. He was emoting long poses about how he sat, maybe cried or blew his nose, etc., and doing it with great frequency. Things that IC, wouldn't really draw that much attention to him or get him ousted, but OOC, were filling up the screen and drawing attention away from the main event. You can't yell at him IC for being noisy or distracting from the IC event when his last four-line emote is all about how he's sitting quietly. You also can't yell at him IC for emoting too frequely, not giving others a turn, and exercising poor OOC etiquette. He's only being disruptive and rude OOC, but IC, he's exhibiting normal behavior for the scene. I have no doubt your mud's players would go all inner city cyberpunk on a guy who was disrupting rp, and a lot of people have suggested similar approaches, but would it really be right to react that way to somebody who was being totally appropriate and making all the right moves IC, but was doing it in an OOCly annoying way?