OOC criticism dressed up as IC scorn
How could this impact players learning the game?

Maybe I'm seeing things. If so, ignore me.

Let's pretend we have a new player. Eager and excited to join the game. Tell stories. Have adventures. Maybe this kind of game is new to them or they have a style that is very different than most Sindome players have adopted. Maybe they go through a handful of characters as they try and learn the game and people think they see similarities between them.

This can happen. Has happened. I just want to urge people to maybe consider how their characters react to this ICly. Maybe don't flirt with the 4th wall to bring your OOC assumption that these are all the characters of the same player into the IC world. Maybe don't bully them ICly to a degree beyond what you see done to other characters. Maybe try and help them understand the game better in a way less likely to scare them off.

Personally, I don't think this kind of thing is in the spirit of cooperative competition and is borderline meta. And while PCs should not get a blanket free pass, this kind of behavior runs the risk of making the player feel unwelcome. Maybe that excitement and enthusiasm gets knocked off them and they leave the game. Maybe I just have to sit here and frown at what comes across to me as OOC criticism dressed up as IC scorn being thrown at these characters/players.

Everyone should play how they want as long as they aren't breaking any @rules. If this is how you like to play and staff sees no issue with it, so be it. I just hope that some will consider this angle is all.

We're not suppose to allude to someone being the same type of character/same character over and over. I know this was a theme a few years ago and staff got upset at players for doing it, because it's cheesy and unfair to others.

There's a lot of people who have similar styles of characteristics through characters. Some of those are the same players. Some of them are new players, some of them are old players. There's a lot of older players, honestly, that play the same type of character over and over and we don't see this type of accusations and mocking just because they don't cycle through as fast.

I agree with you wholeheartedly, Grey, that we shouldn't go through these types of IC performances and accusations. If there's an issue, there's the @note system. Use it. Let staff address if it's a big problem and if it's disruptive to the community. By piling on someone with thinly veiled OOC accusations done ICly, whether by one character or groups of characters, we're being just as disruptive as any perceived disruption of the accused individual or individuals.

I just treat every new character as a new player, I don't associate anyone with anyone, then again I have OOC turned off and stay away from it. I think that's the mindset to have, to not try and pair so and so with so and so.

I don't think they mean the OOC chat.

I really enjoy seeing the crazy and wild characters. Let them flourish. I think a series of wild new characters appeared over the course of the last two weeks and they provided such an entertaining experience that people are still bringing up bits of the characters history they shared over SIC. You need a full spectrum of personalities to have fun.