Eh, some of that I agree with - but honestly, many of those behaviors are disruptive as hell, and louder/morecharismatic/persistent players can very easily use them to basically run others' characters. I'm particularly down on the 'sure, go ahead and metagame...it's ok!'. For me, that borders on the only cheating you can really do in an RPG.
The off-topic chatter detracts, IMO, and it's highly disrespectful if others are engaged in a particularly intense or interesting scene - you're effectively saying that your fun is more important than everyone else's. It's this material and more like it that made me relegate my copy of Dogs in the Vineyard to the Resources shef next to the Gm's Station, and not the Games Being Played. As always, YMMV.
The off-topic chatter detracts, IMO, and it's highly disrespectful if others are engaged in a particularly intense or interesting scene - you're effectively saying that your fun is more important than everyone else's. It's this material and more like it that made me relegate my copy of Dogs in the Vineyard to the Resources shef next to the Gm's Station, and not the Games Being Played. As always, YMMV.