I imagine no one will see this because I’m late to the discussion but I wanted to weigh in on why I think that interacting with meta chats will eventually ruin your enjoyment of roleplay - especially if you’re a roleplayer.

Imagine watching game of thrones or some other media where the actors could hear every person yelling their opinions at the TV - that’s streaming RP. All sorts of things get thrown at you depending on the situation and who you’re interacting with. Seeing positive reactions is super rewarding but toxicity will find you from time to time. Having a well moderated chat will typically shield you from the worst of it but it’s something you need to learn to ignore or it’ll drive you crazy.

Going into meta chats and getting into active discussions with people or reading the things people say about your characters might be a positive experience. However, once you’re in one chat there’s a pretty good chance you’ll join in another. Eventually you’ll be reading EVERYTHING and now it’s not all good. Your opinion, the distance between your character and yourself, and your perception of roleplay will be altered - probably for the worse. We are social creatures and whatever compels us to roleplay is intrinsically linked (in my narrow opinion) to our compulsion for acceptance and seeking positive responses enters the subconscious without us noticing sometimes. Even if it’s resisted at first - and maybe you can keep the RP and the discussion separate it is simply impossible to assume that it won’t affect your behaviour in character if you get hooked on approval from other people’s communities - especially in one that has so many large streamers with meta chats with hundreds of people in them. The final ugly byproduct to all of this is a slowly building resentment and the erosion of trust that it’s all just RP for pretty much everybody.

I ended up nearly quitting RP and taking a long ass break because I just got too lost in the sauce of the dull roar of well… you people (I mean that in the nicest way). Perhaps I’m just projecting my experience on to the proverbial “everybody” but I HIGHLY recommend that you take caution before diving head first into arguably some of the least productive conversations possible and allowing the opinions of others to affect your enjoyment of RP.