If you're going to call a negative title that reflects the character's roleplay an OOC punishment, than you're defining everything as an OOC punishment.

IC, it's usually not an Immortal who "gave" a PC a title-- it's how the general populace has taken to thinking of that character. There can be IC titles, of course-- for example, if during an IC interaction a specific Immortal decrees one (such as "High Priest of _____") upon a character. But most of the positive and negative titles are designed to be reflections of a character's reputation.

I mean, if you're a super-Chaotic Outlander who spends an inordinate amount of squatting in Market Square complaining that he was unjustly wanted based on a very specific and arcane reading of the Tribunal Laws as written... well, word is going to get around that you're some combination of hypocritical and whiny.

Conversely, if you're some super badass guy and you become known by some super badass title, that's equally IC.

OOC punishments are things that can't be readily rationalized IC-- for example, a character who is slain or denied for multi-charring equipment, for spamming, or for going on an OOC tirade.

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