Hey bud, glad to see you're still going strong too!
It all depends on your point of view. You can call it "RPing integrity" in a fake game world if you want to, you might be right that it really doesn't make any difference. Personally though, I think it's pretty reasonable to at least try to treat other people on the internet like actual people. Especially when it's a relatively small group that spends most of their free time doing the same thing.