Thanks for adding your thoughts to our responses to the Council forum thread, Mornah.
On the subject of events hosted by groups that dont want to be disrupted by non rpers or rpers who arent “filled in on the event” running into them, I believe you misunderstood our concern. (Although I can only see these posts and dont know what was mailed to you in-game. )
The concern as I read others posts, and as I’M concerned, is that an “rp mode” would give these players MORE control over an even more isolated RP community, and make those who opted into it vulnerable to their efforts to control everything.
RP needs to be completely public on RP servers to AVOID this happening. It also needs to be public so new players who dont know what RP is all about can see it at work. An RP mode would trap rpers with charismatic ill intentioned players and cut them off from growing their community. I would be highly suspicious of the motivations of a player who was in favor of or opposed to rp mode to avoid the notice of other players and, indeed, other Rpers.
The open world is HUGE, there’s no reason players hosting events cant do it somewhere out of the way of griefers or rpers who arent clued in…but griefing shouldnt be a problem in the first place, hence the need for one click harassment reporting.
We already have “a place” to do our thing, RP servers. We dont need an RP mode to fix problems with RP, we need more support from Blizzard for the playmode and its designated servers.
On vote to kick- please, NO. One bad apple with a ton of charisma can swarm victims with the votes of their supporters and abuse such a system to abuse other rpers into submission. (This already basically happens with social pressure so we know what it looks like) We already have report tools. We just need Blizz to act when we use them.