First off, I'm not mad at anyone, but I've been listening to the opinions of a few different parties when it comes to certain situations. I'm not targeting this at anyone or anything, I'm just stating something I've observed happening more frequently as of late.
As we all know, Order is a Role Playing shard, and everyone chooses varying levels of role playing - some people choose to be in character all the time.
Sometimes, this means they role play a character who is a jerk.
One thing I've noticed is that people take the actions of a player acting In Character to be offensive to them Out of Character.
I'd just like to remind people that if a character is acting like a jerk, make sure they are in character before you get offended and mad at them IRL. Just as we have right to play characters that are peaceful, heroic, or kind, others have the right to play mean, rude or just plain evil characters. It spices up the IC environment.
Of course, if someone is bothering you, you can just OOCly state you don't want to RP with them, and if they keep pestering you, /ignore them for a period of time. RP is just RP, and I've noticed lately that people are getting too upset over things that should be IC only. =)
(And yes, I know I do my share of ranting too, but it's just ranting, and I do my best to not let IC stuff annoy me unless it's ridiculous godmoding or something. ^^)
This is mostly just a suggestion that players do 'reality checks' more often, and remember that while they not be IC all the time, other players may be. A lot of people are IC unless they type within brackets ((like this)).