Board Thread:Administrative Requests/@comment-26618798-20150709201529/@comment-24891101-20150710004941

To add an alternative perspective: I don't really have a problem with roleplay, but it should be kept to a minimum. This community is fundamentally not a roleplaying one, and thus you won't find many people to play off of. We really just want to discuss the show with other people who enjoy it. A little bit is fine, but it should not be distracting, and it shouldn't be used to support points. The stuff earlier about Dust is obnoxious, because you're basically using roleplay to attempt to add legitimacy to your own viewpoint, where other perspectives are also perfectly valid, since we don't actually know. If, on the other hand, you're responding to a purely factual point about "Breach", say, and you answer in-character about something we know for sure, that's much more acceptable, because it's just a creative way to answer a question. This, of course, is highly situational, and most things we discuss on this wiki don't lend themselves to that. Ultimately, the reaction you got was because we're not a roleplaying community, and so you're just acting a bit weird, and that you're hijacking a character to reinforce your own headcanons. Just be a normal person (or a not-so-normal one), bring up intelligent points, and you'll be fine.