Recent little event from Admin Lonare (having been announced in Borealis) reminded me of perhaps why RP'ing isn't much respected or performed anymore.
While the event was going on, people were crowding around Lonare and her guards, mongoing/challengering/dragon-morphing/emoting on top of her, disrupting the event, distracting the few people trying to RP (I think 3 or 4 including myself actually tried to at least roleplay a little - Foosball, myself, an Advie named Randulf).
I'm not trying to sound like an elitist, in where if you're not /bowing and /saluting and saying "Thou art my Queene" you have to leave, but there's something to be said for allowing people who do this for the pure fun of it (since there's no other motivation to do this) to have their time and their space to have a little break from combat and grinding to have some fun with new people and the politics and happenings within AO.
That's all I wanted to say.