you're right.
On Catskills we called them ROEplayers
I wouldn't be so enthusiastic for the "less rules" idea if I would not have it seen work. I think it was from mid 2000 to '03 that we had this system working on Catskills between a couple of major guilds (Black Rose Society, Paladins of Trinsic, Emerald Empire (aka RP1), Kingdom of Winterfell, Independents, Shadowclan, Undead, Drow, Shadow Rangers and a couple of smaller guilds), probably a few hundred players alltogether.
We had tough player screening on joining the guilds and GMs who dealt with any complains, but in the end it worked quite well and the quality of RP improved a lot. Problem handling was done through the GMs who used common sense rather than stiff rulesets to judge problems. There were also much less whine threads. I loved it
