Kiako said:
...IC is IC... I hate saying it, but it's true.
That's the same kind of thinking that resulted in telepathic, augmented cits, hourly ration bombings, and CPs with katanas. Just because something is considered IC by the person doing it, it doesn't mean the rest of the server is obliged to deal with it as though it is - because then you're only confirming that it's okay and that will end up in more people doing it.
IC and OOC are not two magically distinct entities, they affect each other in a multitude of ways and acting as though they do not is a really terrible idea that goes nowhere good.
There's also the fact that people will cry blue murder if Civil Protection do anything that doesn't fit their particular watered-down, DarkRP-influenced view of how HL2RP should be. I remember back when one of my characters was trying to infiltrate the C18 CCA I used to get whined at incessantly for telling groups of three or more to disperse if they were in the plaza or loitering by a building's entrance, and busting up stalls. Expecting the CCA to be the arbiters of quality RP is absurd, because it assumes a) they are all excellent roleplayers with a good sense of what should be enforced (not all of them are), b) there are enough of them on to enforce it, and c)
they aren't already busy playing ersatz admin, especially during offpeak times. Fully half my time flagged up was spent trying to shove punchwhores and statwhores up in the cells long enough for another unit to tell them to cut it out, just to stop them fucking with everyone else. I have reason to believe it hasn't changed.
CPs shouldn't be the ones to have to deal with outlandish bullshit - if it's something that out of whack, either an admin should, or the person should be lectured as to why it's not on. If they don't listen, I don't see why it should be treated as IC.
I can also state pretty confidently that a number of the more experienced roleplayers on the server straight up ignore a good chunk of what happens because it is just too much effort to try loophole it into canon. The more extreme form of this is just hanging out with a small group and ignoring everyone else, which is basically what I learned to do after about three different failed attempts to find decent RP with the majority of players on the coast.