Sigh. Alright, let me try to...
One second I need to take a deep breath...
It's been a late night - Giant's won the world series (fuck yeah) and I've been drinking all night.
I'm going to tell you how you are a (RP) hypocrite in the most polite way possible; I'd like to keep this thread open and civil.
Do not take what I say personal, but take a deep breath as I have and think about your RP. I think this discussion is heading in a good direction and I'd hate to see it turn into a flame-fest.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I have read (I don't read everything you say, sorry if that offends you but I simply don't have the time nor care to do so), you took offense to people taking an OOG, OOC site as IC information and, as I said, correct me if I'm wrong (and please, do so in as few words as possible), but when you say that taking OOC sites, or rather sites that you do not have access to IC, and turn that into RP, that bothered you? If it did, and you take OOC knowledge, and as my logs showed, ignore the fact that OOC knowledge should be divided from IC knowledge WHEN IT COMES TO RP (I'm not at all talking about warfare/PVP knowledge/etc.), that makes for bad RP. There really is no arguement to that; but if you have one, I'm open to see it.
The idea that people shouldn't make blogs with the hope that people don't steal their material is, as the British would say, bollocks. Basically you are reinforcing that the RP community should be a very small one who does not really RP but "plays to win", no matter the costs to their character.
To me, RP is a collaboration. You cannot walk into someone's bar and say "I stabbed you, you're dead, now destroy your character/acct and never come back." You are not doing that, but to me it seems like you are "God-Moding", which is very similar.
Trying to be a good PR person is completely seperate from RP. PR exists in RP, and in OOC aspects. Many non RP alliances focus on the PR aspect of their alliance to gain members and such, as you do so yourself. However, the divide is when you try to create some kind of PR that would not be available to your character IC.
Here's an abstract. Don't take this as a matter of fact, but an example:
Let's say I'm a Minmatar in a RP Minnie corp. I find out through OOC means (someone private convo's me to tell me in a completely OOC manner, "Hey I just bought some slaves off the market in Rens.").
Would it be right of me to say "I just found out there's a Minmatar slave trader, heres my OOC info that he told me (not in secret, but in OOC)."
That's the big issue I see. If you want to be an RPer, and someone tells you something that would make your character IC frown, it is your responsibility as a player and an RPer not to turn that OOC knowledge into IC knowledge "out of the blue". If you choose to make that OOC knowledge IC, it is my belief you need the other player to agree to your conditions (for example having access to an OOC blog/website) before you claim you suddenly know every dirty little detail.
It does not seem fair to say, "Well if you're posting a blog, people can choose if they know it IC or not" as that will make people turn their RP completely private, and to me, that seems against what the RP community is about lately (acceptance, expansion, tolerance).
