battletagoneCof5#1879

06 January 2013

Wall of Shame: Premier Post

I fail to understand how it's fun to act like a complete and total ass in a video game. Does it make you feel cool? Superior? Somehow better than everyone else?

Enter a new "series": The Wall of Shame.  When someone acts like a jerk to me (or around me) in the game, I'm gonna screen cap it and post it here.

And, I've been literally sitting here staring at my screen for the last three hours wondering whether or not to protect this individual's identity. And I've come to the conclusion: Screw it. It's my blog, and I'll post what I want.

Allow me to set the stage... I'm in Stormwind checking on how auctions have fared, and I catch this in tradechat:
First mistake? Asking a question in /tradechat
How do you get valor points?
There was a time when I didn't know the answer to this question. So, I'm figuring "Iwillwinat" is a newer character and perhaps doesn't understand about valor points. And rather than respond in trade and running the risk of feeding the trolls, I shoot a whisper to the person briefly answering their question.

I'm greeted with this little gem of evilness:
umm... WTF?
So I'm"helping" by answering a question and I'm assaulted with this bullshit?  I love /ignore.  I just wish I didn't have to use it all the time.

There's a whole other element to this snapshot. How in the hell have we come to a place in our culture where it is acceptable to threaten anyone verbally? I have never in my life experienced as much abuse as I have in WoW. In the real world, it helps that I'm 6' 5". Most bullies started to leave me alone after I began looking down on them in junior high school. So physically, in the real world, you had better be Jackie Chan or Hulk Hogan before you talk smack to me. But in the virtual world? There's no consequence. All I can do is 'report' this dipshit and pray Blizzard does something about it.

But is that truly doing anything? They might get banned for a bit... But knowing them, they'd brag to their friends and make fun of me for being a do-gooder for reporting them.

I simply don't understand it.

I'm not trying to offer a solution, or anything prophetic about this issue -- I'm just expressing my personal exasperation and frustration that gamers can be stereotyped as masochistic closet freaks only because some of them act like one.  Please -- Don't perpetuate the stereotype.

I'm gonna crawl back into my middle-aged man cave now.  Football games are on!

8 comments:

  1. I think that Blizzards unwillingness to make more of an attempt to enforce better behavious from players.


    On my own server someone asked a simple question in trade about where something could be found and when i whispered with a helpful answer they were rude and mocked me and said they liked to ask questions , so they could mock the people who were helpful. ( their reason was that people who were nice were weak.) I think maybe it's a new ? form of trolling.


    I really wish people were better then that.

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  2. Now that's just terrible. I applaud that you whispered them because I do that to help out people but to respond like that? Sheesh. Karma, is all I can say. You can't get away with that crappy kind of behaviour. And obscurefox's example is another example of bad behaviour. But for every bad behaviour there is a good one, so I'm glad I have met people like you guys :)

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  3. Thelandira/Sheeturself08 January, 2013 10:49

    I was going to say that maybe Iwillwinat whispered that reply to you by accident. His comment makes no sense in response to what you said. He might have gotten a nasty whisper from someone but yours was the most recent and he accidentally sent it to you instead of who ever he meant to reply to.

    After reading Obscurefox's comment I'm not so sure now.

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  4. I've been trolled while being helpful. So sometimes, I'll reply in trade and if the person genuinely needs help, follow it up with whispers. Another reason for doing it is, it encourages other good people to see good behavior in trade. Trolls thrive on realms with low useful traffic as it allows them to get more attention. Get a useful conversation going and they don't get as much attention which makes trade chat less interesting for them.

    Also if someone comes back with a twatish whisper like this did, I'll repeat it in trade and prefix it with "Furiously typing from his parents' basement is " :)

    It works most of the time. For when it doesn't, ignore!

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  5. I feel your frustration. Liberal use of the reporting functions and /ignore is all we have. Reporting works. Keep at it.

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  6. At one point in time this would have shocked me, and it is ridiculous. All I can say is, if your cave is anything like the Matty-shacks, there's hot food, nice TV, books, love, and all the comforts that being a grown-up bring. It is in the title of your blog, after all, and with adulthood come benefits.

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