There’s a place for the psychodrama magickally speaking. Sometimes it’s just being edgy because it’s fun, but I’d be the first one to say, do whatever it takes to get your mind in the right space to love energy. Under the principles of chaos magick, as the practitioner is the magickal one, it doesn’t much matter what you do it’s the way that you do it.
One issue is, you can have posts that look like RP but are honest to goodness account of personal experience given in good faith. Once you get into serious intermediate practice, you will start having experience that if you told anyone they WILL think you’re mad.
Somehow when these are published in books it’s fine, but on forums there’s a “yeah sure” attitude, which is probably the human tendency to respect “authority” showing. I actually apply the same pinch of salt to most books as well and abandon some that get too much for my taste.
E.A. himself talks about psychodrama on his livestreams and he loves it.
It’s not my thing either, I’m very practical myself and as an introvert don’t enjoy a highly emotional approach, but I’m not going to judge others for how they want to be. It’s their way, and that’s not so much my business
If they’re actually only LARPing and it’s all their heads, then then they won’t be around for long as that doesn’t get results, either in post engagement or in real life. This makes them blame magick for not working, and they stop doing it.
Also, this is not a role playing forum, so it’s kinda boring for those wanting to get into a storyline, or the forum membership just ignores them as being too much, or they get flagged for getting angry and insulting people who quite reasonably challenge their ideas, and too much of that and they’re gone.
Note: moralising on a thread is against the rules but challenging a concept is fine.
Moralising is when the OP says “how do I do x” and people respond “don’t do x because that’s naughty” or whatever. Challenging the premise as one that might not work right for the intended goal is awesome and one way we can help each other do better magick.
As a rule of thumb, if you read a post for it’s factual content and not it’s tone, that helps a lot, and then it’s easier respond to the practicalities not the emotion. Or you know, just click out of it and ignore it. If some people particularly bother you, there are Mute and Ignore features you can set in your profile to hide content from given members. They won’t know you’ve done it and it cleans up your interface.
After that, I refer you to the official moderation position for posts that may or may not be LARPing, set by former mods: