I need to get this off my chest...

[Belle]

I think that its partially because people are comfortable here using other people's characters. Its not such a taboo to play with someone else's property. While I see reasons for allowing such a thing I do think it does act as a sort of gateway. But its not completely responsible or even wholely halfway.

I don't think being able to write other peoples' characters is a factor. I've been doing this kind of RP for, like, a decade now, since Chubbs, and by and large people have been very respectful of each other's characters and time. That's just my experience, though.