(09-28-2013, 12:43 AM)Katanyae Wrote: #3 would be me. To clarify my position on this:
You have every right...every right...to be irritated, frustrated, disheartened by being griefed.Â
I am not surprised or offended or exasperated or whatever by the posts that crop up concerning this at all. I am also not without compassion for yours or anyone's feelings on the matter.
I fully support SE implementing a structure to combat said behavior. UNTIL then, however, we only have a few options. Support group mentality, and/or self empowerment. I personally think that a mixture of those is healthy and stimulates a good community.
If every greifer runs our immersion, if every dickhole and jackass can sour our night, then why are we RPers? We're supposed to be the ones with the imagination. The creative ones. The ones that find joy in creating our OWN stories within the gameworld instead of just puppeteering an avatar. This isn't an instanced world - if it were, we wouldn't have these problems. This isn't a case where the Powers That Be will lay waste to the offenders with a ban hammer. So we are left pretty much to our own devices.
Maybe I misread your context. Maybe I came off as unsympathetic, and in light of your "it was for lulz" statement sympathy wasn't warranted in the first place. In either case, I apologize.
This doesn't change my standpoint of the empowered RPer, both in a community and of themselves. But I wanted to take the time to apologize to you personally if I offended.
I wasn't offended by what you said, and maybe I misread your context, who knows? I just wanted to lay down what I believed was an appropriate amount of QQing about trolls, which is, when you've had your fill, moan about it on the forum of your choice, then go back to whatever you were doing. Like I said, I make liberal use of the blacklist feature, and like you said, this was not a sympathy post. Just something to laugh at.
