I agree with you, still i would love to have some more "clearly defined" rules or guidelines ...or basically the question simply is this:
Does the server have interest in improving this (at least to me) important part of rp and getting rid of old slack ...of course if 99% of the players simply say that they don't care if it makes that much sense what their factions do and how they behave, then the try is futile of course.
It boils down to check if people want to give up some "privileges" and safety in exchange for more inRPdrama, conflict and so on - which would help the server on the long run...then again, i could be completly wrong, too