I like it, you do a nice job blending them both - and i can feel like a person learning english would outright speak their native language instinctifvely until most can't understand - role play is role play - style is style, it's unique and each to their own

You're doing active roleplaying when the majority of the players here are descriptive roleplayers and much of that RP is limited to forums only. There's no rules against your approach but descriptive roleplaying works better considering the third person narrative allows for additional lines and results in more experience and vision points. The backlash you're experiencing could probably be summed up by the first sentence in your thread. It's probably annoying for some and I can't answer for them but to say that they aren't roleplayers isn't exactly fair either. 

Don't be so absolute! Mix in... Live. Love. Laugh.

I love how everything can be answered with "rank up and do something about it" but it's true. You could always challenge those pesky OOC social rules through power and influence. Obtain a crew and set your crew details as heavy roleplaying. You'll find the niche community you're seeking and, if you're lucky or insanely dedicated, you could become the boss of all bosses and make everyone RP in mobmails and have them call you something silly like "McChairman" or whatever until karma catches you with a whopping 1% :/

The point is RPing is only fun if everyone else does it; it's like owning a telephone, completely useless unless someone else has one!

Otherwise enjoy being unique...

If you aren’t wanting to role play in a role playing game… why play? To click buttons? What happened to the safe haven for role players? To be able to enjoy character work and stories? Honestly, that’s what made me want to play again… But it is not being openly received. So what’s the point really?

Unfortunately, at it's core, MafiaReturns isn't really a roleplaying game. Not in the sense that doing it will gain you skills or experience in the way that other actions can, which means fewer people are willing to commit the time and effort necessary to do it. The majority of the userbase are players who have been here long enough to have "been there, done that" so to speak. They likely gave a strong effort on the RP side earlier in their years here and found that it, sadly, isn't all that worthwhile outside of credits and VIP rankings. Those players also developed friends and enemies and agendas, and realized that the core of the game is gun building, and nothing will ever be more important here than the ability to build a gun. 

A bold statement perhaps, but I don't think other areas of expertise - leadership, voice, reason, etc. are quite as valued now as they were ten years ago. This isn't a dig at the current regime or any recent regimes even, just an observation from someone who was here then and is still here now, and has similarly lost the desire to write regularly. We'd all like to see RP make a true comeback, but it's a tall order at this point.

I feel your pain. Used to do something similar in my last few active runs. Hardcore IC only. Had that up on my profile. But compromise has to be from both sides. You have to understand what you or Keats or some of the OG RPers used to do is not the norm. Anyone else who signed up here and has never had to do that for communication normally might view it as a chore, even if they were capable and interested in doing it. In my own experience, what did work however was letting people know that I'm being IC for mobmails and OOC for chats personal or public. That way whoever I am communicating with has an avenue that they feel comfortable approaching me in which does not ruin my own immersion.

I guess its really up to the individual. I sometimes RP all in, I had a Panda Character who never spoke, given that Panda's can't actually speak. Every post was as a 3rd person monologue wondering whats and whys about situations.

I've been an undead Alien superfiend with problems speaking due to the fact that he doesn't actually breath, and there fore his voice is more of a hiss as he literally forces air past his larynx in order to speak, symbolised by the repetition of multiple letters.

I have played German and Italian characters that only spoke German or Italian. I have been Dogs, people, male, female, aliens, undead, vampire slayers, you name it, and I've probably been it.

Some folks take warmly to it, some don't. MR has always had a mix of those who RP and enjoy it, and its also had its fair share of Click monkeys who are only out to hang with friends and press buttons to rank up and rule the game. We have also had a broad spectrum in between.

You will never get everyone to RP, you will never get everyone to give up RP. You will never get everyone to RP Italian Mafioso. Just accept it and embrace it and go with it, and try to ignore the Caravan Using Nomadic Travellers who are determined to shit on everyone else for playing the game how they want to.