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Kraz · **06-25-2014, 01:08 PM**

I've noticed a bit of a rise in harassment and griefing over the past few months, I'm not particularly fond of it myself and it does get quite irritating not being able to use a part of Ul'dah to RP in as it's been completely cordoned off and taken over. I personally just use a blacklist on sight approach to the situation. Heavy handed but it works rather well.

In regards of some of the harassment coming from members of TGCid I'd like to put this out there - Our FC has a zero-tolerance policy of harassing others. A fair few of us in the FC's ranks RP and none of us condone this sort of behaviour.

If there's any further harassment from TGCid members I would like you to take screenshots of their behaviour and either contact me on these forums or in game so I can carry this forward. If I'm unreachable you can also contact Pescarus Haustier in game to discuss it (one of our officers) or Baerys Heiral (our FC master).

My condolences to anyone who's been negatively affected by members of our FC or had their RP interrupted by it. Rest assured I'll be making sure this is taken up internally so this hopefully doesn't happen again.

Kage · **06-25-2014, 01:14 PM**

First I want to apologize to TGCid and its members. When I FC-name-dropped it wasn't to point fingers at the FC and its members to name them as griefers or harassers but to pinpoint where some have mentioned the area they were getting issues in. I seem to have caused an issue where very likely there is none at all. For that, I deeply apologize.

I, myself, have personally not received any type of the behavior being talked about in this thread but I also hand out blacklisting liberally.

Kraz · **06-25-2014, 01:22 PM**

(06-25-2014, 01:14 PM)ExKage Wrote: First I want to apologize to TGCid and its members. When I FC-name-dropped it wasn't to point fingers at the FC and its members to name them as griefers or harassers but to pinpoint where some have mentioned the area they were getting issues in. I seem to have caused an issue where very likely there is none at all. For that, I deeply apologize.

I, myself, have personally not received any type of the behavior being talked about in this thread but I also hand out blacklisting liberally.

Don't worry about it, no harm done by it!

My stance still stand though, if any harassment does come from any of our members please screenshot what happens and inform myself or one of the people I mentioned in my previous post. RP is supposed to be a fun time for everyone involved but if I have to make sure the hammer is cracked out when people are rude and uncouth then I shall do just that.

As for all these things though - Blacklists work wonders and I can only encourage their use.

Val · **06-25-2014, 08:00 PM**

I, like many others here, just blacklist pretty much everyone. I may be a bit too liberal about handing them out. If I see someone with a blatant anime name--as in named after a character in an anime, I blacklist them. I do this because those characters are not part of this world, don't belong, and it can ruin any sort of immersion to see them trying to be played. Same if I see any pop culture exact/hybrid names and characters from games/movies/whatever.. If someone dances on my table, emote spams, whatever--blacklist. Then I just ignore their presence and forget about them entirely. Smile

TheLastCandle · **06-25-2014, 09:37 PM**

There's no such thing as "ruining my immersion." There are going to be people who give their characters names that don't 100% fit in with the game world. There are going to be pop culture references and non-RPers. It's one of the things I learned in about 1996 on the text-based game that springboarded me into the world of online RP - people are people, and not all of them are going to fit neatly into the perfect little world I've created in my head. You learn to filter 'em out. That's Roleplaying 101.

Val · **06-25-2014, 09:40 PM**

(06-25-2014, 09:37 PM)TheLastCandle Wrote: There's no such thing as "ruining my immersion." There are going to be people who give their characters names that don't 100% fit in with the game world. There are going to be pop culture references and non-RPers. It's one of the things I learned in about 1996 on the text-based game that springboarded me into the world of online RP - people are people, and not all of them are going to fit neatly into the perfect little world I've created in my head. You learn to filter 'em out. That's Roleplaying 101.

I can assure you I am well versed filtering them out. But depending on how bad they irk me, I'm also fond of just ignoring them altogether so that I don't have to be bothered with more spam filling up my screen while I'm trying to read!

Devereau · **06-25-2014, 10:11 PM**

(06-25-2014, 09:37 PM)TheLastCandle Wrote: There's no such thing as "ruining my immersion." There are going to be people who give their characters names that don't 100% fit in with the game world. There are going to be pop culture references and non-RPers. It's one of the things I learned in about 1996 on the text-based game that springboarded me into the world of online RP - people are people, and not all of them are going to fit neatly into the perfect little world I've created in my head. You learn to filter 'em out. That's Roleplaying 101.

He speaks the truth, I try to troll on him all the time. He keeps turning me down. Someday, Senpai will notice me. T^T

Though, in all seriousness, it seems the suggestions are all well. As it has been showing through the posts here, it's quite apparent most people mean no harm. Everyone just has to respect that we're all going to have to co-exist, and find ways to share and manage, and deal with each problem case as it arises.

...clearly, we all just need to hug more. Amirite?

Cato · **06-26-2014, 01:20 AM**

It's usually role-players themselves who cause trouble for other role-players. Most of the people who don't role-play tend to leave us be. There's a few exceptions here and there but I'm not led to believe that there's been a rise in the amount of harassment aimed at our kind.

Then again I've long since developed the ability to filter out the sort of players that I'm not interested in interacting with. This is a skill that I urge every role-player to develop as it really makes things a lot more tolerable and fun.

Mercurias · **06-26-2014, 01:23 AM**

The blacklist button exists for a reason, and to be honest it doesn't bother me in the slightest to actually go ahead and play along with them. I tend not to do my serious RP in the middle of Ul'dah anyway. It's too cliquey.

Kage · **06-27-2014, 08:49 AM**

(06-26-2014, 01:20 AM)Theodric Ironheart Wrote: It's usually role-players themselves who cause trouble for other role-players.

I'd love to know exactly what you mean by this.

I've never found Ul'dah Rp to be clique-y. In fact, I've found it much harder to get into plots outside of Ul'dah than inside.

MrPoopyButtHole · **06-27-2014, 08:56 AM**

There honestly has been a slight rise. We had to lock our our FC house because of trolls. It sucks and is a shame.Â

On a sadder note, I'm sad I have never RPed with you Kage. I use to see you waddle around (lalafell) and say to myself, "Hey that guy right there? He deserves to be tackled by a drunk bard who thinks he might have a pot of gold."

Kage · **06-27-2014, 09:07 AM**

T_T I'm sorry to hear that you've had to lock your FC house.

Also, I'm also sorry to usually never be the one to initiate a hello or RP with you or any others here. My mind usually goes "OMG THEY'RE FROM RPC I WANT TO RP WITH THEM"

And then it spirals into "ohgodohgodohgod the ANXIETY" and I crawl into my shell and wonder why I'm scurred. >.>;

And now I'm not a little lalafell who claims his rail spot. In fact MULTIPLE LALAFELL TOOK IT OVER AND HERE KAGE IS NOT ONE NOW. MIIINE. IT WAS MINE FIRST /wineandcheeseplz

Yangh · **06-27-2014, 09:13 AM**

I can honestly say I've not run into any harassment just yet. Then again I was away for quite the time.

If I ever do? I just ignore them, it doesn't bother me one bit. Smile

Warren Castille · **06-27-2014, 09:14 AM**

(06-27-2014, 09:07 AM)ExKage Wrote: T_T I'm sorry to hear that you've had to lock your FC house.

Also, I'm also sorry to usually never be the one to initiate a hello or RP with you or any others here. My mind usually goes "OMG THEY'RE FROM RPC I WANT TO RP WITH THEM"

And then it spirals into "ohgodohgodohgod the ANXIETY" and I crawl into my shell and wonder why I'm scurred. >.>;

And now I'm not a little lalafell who claims his rail spot. In fact MULTIPLE LALAFELL TOOK IT OVER AND HERE KAGE IS NOT ONE NOW. MIIINE. IT WAS MINE FIRST /wineandcheeseplz

Of all sad words of mouth or pen, the saddest are these: it might have been.
-John Greenleaf Whittier

MrPoopyButtHole · **06-27-2014, 09:28 AM**

(06-27-2014, 09:07 AM)ExKage Wrote: T_T I'm sorry to hear that you've had to lock your FC house.

Also, I'm also sorry to usually never be the one to initiate a hello or RP with you or any others here. My mind usually goes "OMG THEY'RE FROM RPC I WANT TO RP WITH THEM"

And then it spirals into "ohgodohgodohgod the ANXIETY" and I crawl into my shell and wonder why I'm scurred. >.>;

And now I'm not a little lalafell who claims his rail spot. In fact MULTIPLE LALAFELL TOOK IT OVER AND HERE KAGE IS NOT ONE NOW. MIIINE. IT WAS MINE FIRST /wineandcheeseplz

I guess I'm going to have a drunk Pyra yank on your tail and say, "When does the candy come out?"

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