"Playing regular Joe Shmoe as they were meant to"...since when is that the definitive idea of what Freelancer is about?
The problem is its your idea of "perfect" game play but its just your idea.
I hate seeing the forums used by "big sticks" (of any kind--self-imagined or peer-promoted) to "beat" other players into submitting to their idea of "perfect" role play.
Can we understand that EVERY player has something to offer here and no other player has a right to pre-preemptive strike their role play because "their ideas are sooo right"?
Some rp better than others but I resent the heck outta the attitudes, "I am the perfect standard by which all others have fallen short when measured against it".
If the people posting 1000's of posts of which 90% are against other player's role play are so good, why isn't their awesome in-game playing skill winning people to their example and causing them to follow after without having to be forced to?
The biggest success you have is only in space--specifically the space between your own ears. Its called EGO.
Play your game well, others will like it. The forum isn't best served in its usefulness as your personal bully pulpit.