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I tend to think of them as follows:
1) Non-RP: You shouldn't roleplay.
Example: If you roleplay here, we'll point and laugh at you.
2) RP-accepted: You can roleplaying if you like.
Example: Some people like to roleplay, and that's fine, but you don't have to.
3) RP-encouraged: You'll be rewarded if you roleplaying.
Example: We award bonus exp for roleplaying, and only proven roleplayers are allowed to become guild leaders.
4) RP-enforced: You'll be punished if you don't roleplay.
Example: We'll freeze and ban you if your roleplaying is bad, and if you talk about OOC things we'll send the lads around to your house to break your kneecaps.
Sounds like you've got it the wrong way around - a HnSer is someone who is simply playing the mud as a game. It's the roleplayers who often try to make it more than that, and people like you who wish to ban those who do treat the mud like a game. If it's possible to go around slaughtering mobs and benefiting from doing so, then clearly the person doing so is playing the game, while you are trying to enforce behavior that goes against the intention of the game. In this case you should clearly look for a game which isn't geared that way - for example a mud in which killing NPCs for no reason gives the killer no exp, and makes other (powerful) NPCs hunt them down.
There is nothing wrong with RP, nor with HnS. Some players insist on one extreme or the other, while others prefer something of a middle ground - fortunately there are plenty of muds available so everyone can find something that appeals to their own tastes.
I should also point out that a mud doesn't have to be either RP or HnS - it can be both, or it can be something else entirely. Nor does "combat-oriented" have to mean "mindless HnS", any more than "roleplaying" has to mean "mudsex".
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