There seems to be a lot of problems with OOC interfering with roleplay situations. It just takes up the space. Well, back in some other servers, there's a plugin for OOC that displays it in the top so it would be out of the roleplay talkarea. More info can be found here:
OOC Chat AreaThis applies only to the global OOC. I'm sure you've seen this. I don't know if you've tried this or not. You guys just always disable OOC. I'm not sure if you disable it so nobody can just chat OOC or if you just want it to be out of the way for roleplaying.
FYI, there's also a plugin for local OOC (Where you use // to specify to those around you) which would then display your text as (( sorry man, accidentally pressed my bind )). I don't think the link I provided has this part. Just a suggestion.