So to figure out which you are, just ask yourself if you see your character like a figure in a book/movie/story or like your face on Atys. Does -(s)he- crack racial jokes or do -you- crack racial jokes?
There is ofcourse no sharp dividing line (rather a sliding scale) and there are exceptions (a 'full' RPer can still play a character that's very similar to them), but that's the general idea I get.
Now, do not think RP-elitism is only something from full-RPers towards semi-RPers. There's many degrees of full-RP too, from those who only have a rough idea about their character's details and only want to be in character part of the time, to those who write hundreds of pages about their character's life and are never out of character. A lot of elitism is from one full-RPer to another, because the other doesn't play by their rules. For example, doesn't speak in Old English when they've decided every character in that world should speak in Old English.
In my opinion, these people miss the point of roleplaying. Roleplaying is about creating a story in interaction with others, and those others are not always going to play by your rules and expectations. Adapting to that unpredictability is what makes roleplaying challenging and interesting. If you want everything to go *your* way, you should be creating a story alone. A good roleplayer is one that can adapt to other peoples styles. For example, in the Ryzom lore it's impossible for your character to be a 5000 year old demigod who's the child of Jena and Ma-Duk, but if that's what somebody really really wants to play, I'm not going to accuse them of bad roleplaying, I'm just going to play my own characters as how I think they would treat someone claiming to be a 5000 year old demigod who's the child of Jena and Ma-Duk: as a loony.
