It's best not to get so worked up over these things unless the harassment is very extreme. There's always the blacklist function that can be made use of and the possibility to simply log off and do something else until the dust settles. A lot of the drama in the role-playing community - bar a few exceptions - is pretty much along the lines of playground spats. As soon as people realise that it becomes a lot more tolerable.
Heck, since joining this community I've been called a 'blunt dick' and all sorts of things in-game simply for posting something someone else happened to disagree with. I just shrug it off and laugh it off because most role-players aren't worth losing sleep over or getting upset at. Judging by their behaviour, I do wonder if some of the nastier specimens can even function in the real world, but that's another matter entirely.
On an unrelated note, though, my experience with drama in role-playing communities leads me to believe that there's usually two sides to most drama related stories. Sure, we can give people in this thread the benefit of the doubt and assume that they've been riled up by the player in question, but as far as I'm concerned people are just stooping down to his/her level by giving into their hatred and posting all sorts of nasty comments about him. It's not going to do much to diffuse the situation and is likely to just fuel tensions further.
Heck, since joining this community I've been called a 'blunt dick' and all sorts of things in-game simply for posting something someone else happened to disagree with. I just shrug it off and laugh it off because most role-players aren't worth losing sleep over or getting upset at. Judging by their behaviour, I do wonder if some of the nastier specimens can even function in the real world, but that's another matter entirely.
On an unrelated note, though, my experience with drama in role-playing communities leads me to believe that there's usually two sides to most drama related stories. Sure, we can give people in this thread the benefit of the doubt and assume that they've been riled up by the player in question, but as far as I'm concerned people are just stooping down to his/her level by giving into their hatred and posting all sorts of nasty comments about him. It's not going to do much to diffuse the situation and is likely to just fuel tensions further.
