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I had a particular experience in running an event last night that may be relevant to this topic. I was running a dream sequence in Fury's Gaze in Coerthas, but I did not get the memo that this had apparently become an extremely popular place for people to spam kill the mobs inside. During our 2 1/2 hour event, at least three separate people came in to kill these mobs. As an event runner, you can imagine my particular level of thrill in handling this extra, unexpected element.
When we arrived, there was a Miqo from <SUN> in there, doing her thing. I sent her a couple of polite PM's, and she said "okay, no problem" and left. That worked out well, and she seemed entirely understanding when I asked if she could level elsewhere for a bit so I could run this event for my LS.
No more than 10 minutes later, another person came in and started killing the mobs. I was posting like four paragraphs to set a description for the scene, and he stopped killing things and did a random emote at me. His name was Mini Boss, so I was worried about griefing, but after his emote I sent him a tell of "Hi there! :D"
"Are you guys role players?"
"Yes! I'm currently running a scene right now for my LS. It's kind of a dream sequence though ^^; "
"That's really cool! I'd love to join you guys sometime! :D"
And then I sent him a link to our site, and he ran out of the cave for a bit. Yet another person checked in to kill things during this pause, but when they saw us RPing there, they just turned around and left.
The lalafell I gave our site to applied pretty much on the spot, and he came back to tell me as much. He then kept killing things, but he pulled the mobs behind the group for the duration of things. I just turned down my sound effects and it didn't bother me overly much. I figured that he was there for... leveling his Chocobo or whatever, and also wanted to stay close enough to read what we were doing. I checked his FC and it wasn't a roleplaying one, so if he does have a genuine interest in RP, I'm cautiously excited about taking him under our wing. ^^
I also once partied with a group of people who were friends with each other, and we were spamming the first room of AV. They made a couple of cracks about RPers, but I joked along with them (while simultaneously conveying that I was also one of "those people.") And then they went on to say that they liked hanging around the Quicksand and reading our stuff while waiting for their Duty Finder. They said some of the stuff they'd read was funny-bad, but that some stuff was genuinely interesting. It was kind of nice to see the more passive, mellow side of our PVE-only counterparts.
And I think the majority of people are like this. We just tend to pay attention to the trolls and griefers because they bark the loudest. But I'd say that every time I've been griefed in /shout, there has been someone else who says something like " I'm not an RPer but don't be an *******. Just let them play the game how they want." And then there's usually a small back and forth, but I'd long since blacklisted the original shout-griefers by that point. :P
My typical stance is to be friendly and give them the benefit of the doubt. If they end up being trolls, I just blacklist, turn off effects if they're spamming spells and carry on.
When we arrived, there was a Miqo from <SUN> in there, doing her thing. I sent her a couple of polite PM's, and she said "okay, no problem" and left. That worked out well, and she seemed entirely understanding when I asked if she could level elsewhere for a bit so I could run this event for my LS.
No more than 10 minutes later, another person came in and started killing the mobs. I was posting like four paragraphs to set a description for the scene, and he stopped killing things and did a random emote at me. His name was Mini Boss, so I was worried about griefing, but after his emote I sent him a tell of "Hi there! :D"
"Are you guys role players?"
"Yes! I'm currently running a scene right now for my LS. It's kind of a dream sequence though ^^; "
"That's really cool! I'd love to join you guys sometime! :D"
And then I sent him a link to our site, and he ran out of the cave for a bit. Yet another person checked in to kill things during this pause, but when they saw us RPing there, they just turned around and left.
The lalafell I gave our site to applied pretty much on the spot, and he came back to tell me as much. He then kept killing things, but he pulled the mobs behind the group for the duration of things. I just turned down my sound effects and it didn't bother me overly much. I figured that he was there for... leveling his Chocobo or whatever, and also wanted to stay close enough to read what we were doing. I checked his FC and it wasn't a roleplaying one, so if he does have a genuine interest in RP, I'm cautiously excited about taking him under our wing. ^^
I also once partied with a group of people who were friends with each other, and we were spamming the first room of AV. They made a couple of cracks about RPers, but I joked along with them (while simultaneously conveying that I was also one of "those people.") And then they went on to say that they liked hanging around the Quicksand and reading our stuff while waiting for their Duty Finder. They said some of the stuff they'd read was funny-bad, but that some stuff was genuinely interesting. It was kind of nice to see the more passive, mellow side of our PVE-only counterparts.
And I think the majority of people are like this. We just tend to pay attention to the trolls and griefers because they bark the loudest. But I'd say that every time I've been griefed in /shout, there has been someone else who says something like " I'm not an RPer but don't be an *******. Just let them play the game how they want." And then there's usually a small back and forth, but I'd long since blacklisted the original shout-griefers by that point. :P
My typical stance is to be friendly and give them the benefit of the doubt. If they end up being trolls, I just blacklist, turn off effects if they're spamming spells and carry on.