The answers I received were mixed and at least one person encouraged me to make an inquiry of moderation, so here it is. I ask it because it's not entirely clear to me where moderation lines would fall in a scenario where players approached and utilized gameplay as a roleplaying exercise, with inter-regional relationships handled, and described as, fully-fledged character interactions between regional representatives, rather than as the norm, which is usually something more akin to players voicing the positions of their preferred playstyle embodied via disembodied voices (heh). I say 'the norm', because there's all kinds of posts in Gameplay that seem to indicate some ambiguity that might arise if a group of players were engaged in the hypothetical 'roleplaying gameplay' playstyle central to my question.
Here are some examples of posts in the Gameplay forum to help me couch my question:
A post like this one advertising a regional newspaper is pretty typical for Gameplay. No fluff, no gloss, just a straightforward link from a 'nation' that's an account used for managing dispatches. Obviously belongs per the rules.
The Broadside, a thread posted by the 'nation of Wales' (in game terms), but clearly inter-regional gameplay commentary by the player-author. Within the rules, clearly, and I take it this isn't roleplay, and because its object is gameplay dynamics belongs in that section of the forum, but would it still belong there if it was written from the perspective of 'the national delegation from the Republic of Wales'? Seems like it, because of . . .
this post, by Valtarre, which is very clearly entirely 'in character', from the nation posting it to its tone. The post is still exclusively addressing a gameplay event, in the form of a raid, but it's also roleplay in every sense of the term. The author isn't imposing the player's perspective on the readers, but is articulating the perspective of a character involved in gameplay. This post, on its own, hasn't been struck, nor have others like it, so (I assume) it must fall within the rules.
What if an entire regional thread was done in the style of that last post, though? Is it O.K. as long as it pertains to gameplay? Different parts of the rules thread seem to pull in different directions. Take this bit from the News threads & announcements section:
Some elections are considered to be gameplay, but only those contested by players rather than RPed characters.
Does a region that roleplays contests for the region's offices, perhaps in the form of competition between national delegations, fall afoul of this by posting results of that competition to their Gameplay thread? If the result is a shuffling of the region's regional officers, that appears to me to be both gameplay and roleplay, so I don't know, in part because this phrase from the rules thread sort of makes it sound like it'd fine:
While gameplaying can have an element of roleplay to it (e.g. regional governments, acting as Sedgistan the Foreign Minister of the Moon)
Sorry if this was a bit of a long-winded post! I wanted to provide as much context for my thinking to moderation as possible. Thank you in advance for your answer!
