Minus the gilsellers/spammers, I typically don't blacklist until I've reached the point where my patience has run out. There's plenty of people running around that a normal person would blacklist, but I'm kinda voyeuristic to people's bad behaviours and I also like to know when someone's talking about me.Â
Sometimes, I -will- temp-blacklist someone who is RPing nearby and being a distraction to my RP; not because they're being offensive, but just because what they're doing IS distracting to what I'm trying to concentrate on. These people, I also write their names down on a piece of paper by my keyboard so I remember to remove them once I'm free to have distractions, or to quick-reference the name if they approach before I'm at a point where I can remove them. It's not a punishment, it's just for my sanity.
As for reasons/examples for why I'll actually blacklist:
97% of my blacklist are gilsellers/spammers. I've experienced getting gilseller /tell spam from the same character multiple times over the course of a couple hours, and every once in a while I'll run into a zone where one is spamming in /shout and /yell. So, might as well just blacklist a name right away. Every few months, I go through and remove the first thirty or so of those names and all the (Deleted) entries -- by this time, these 'characters' are on accounts that have been caught and banned, so they're just taking up space.
The next actual 2.5% are the following:
"Tiny" -- This guy used to hound me to join his FC, and he didn't take 'no thanks' or 'not interested' as a good enough answer. Didn't matter how many times I told him to stop trying to invite me, I could expect upwards to five invites a day from him. Â So now, the first thing I do once I've gotten control of a new character is to blacklist him before he can start bugging me. Which might seem moot now since I have a FC that I can join with all my characters... but there was a few times where "Tiny" got to me while I was waiting for someone with invite privileges to come back from AFK.
"On the /punt list" -- I was asked to join a LS that I had been told was for OOC RP event planning among FC leaders and their co-leaders/seconds-in-command. Joined... and slowly started getting hints that the LS was going to be an IC one with some REALLY bizarre ideas and themes that myself and my co-leader had no interests in. Eventually we left, and both of us got some harassment from the LS leader and a few other members for doing so.
"Guttermouth" -- The only person who has the honor of being on my blacklist because of their RP. I get it that swearing has a place in RP, I swear IRL and IC, but when every third word out of your mouth is 'c--t' and my polite /tell request to please tone it down a bit is met with a LOT of venom... yeah. Took me a while to feel okay with blacklisting, as this was another RPer and I hate missing half a conversation when I lurk, but in the end this person's RP was just so repulsive to me that I finally hit that button.
Which leaves that last .5%...
"Ugh" -- "Ugh" has the dubious honors of being someone that I blacklist often, but need to take off the blacklist during RP because he RP's often with my group. Sometimes, I forget to put "Ugh" back on blacklist until after I've reached the point where I wish I could just jump through the computer and strangle him. My hatred of this person is long-standing and game-spanning, but I like the rest of my RP group and I'm not about to let "Ugh" run me off.
Sometimes, I -will- temp-blacklist someone who is RPing nearby and being a distraction to my RP; not because they're being offensive, but just because what they're doing IS distracting to what I'm trying to concentrate on. These people, I also write their names down on a piece of paper by my keyboard so I remember to remove them once I'm free to have distractions, or to quick-reference the name if they approach before I'm at a point where I can remove them. It's not a punishment, it's just for my sanity.
As for reasons/examples for why I'll actually blacklist:
97% of my blacklist are gilsellers/spammers. I've experienced getting gilseller /tell spam from the same character multiple times over the course of a couple hours, and every once in a while I'll run into a zone where one is spamming in /shout and /yell. So, might as well just blacklist a name right away. Every few months, I go through and remove the first thirty or so of those names and all the (Deleted) entries -- by this time, these 'characters' are on accounts that have been caught and banned, so they're just taking up space.
The next actual 2.5% are the following:
"Tiny" -- This guy used to hound me to join his FC, and he didn't take 'no thanks' or 'not interested' as a good enough answer. Didn't matter how many times I told him to stop trying to invite me, I could expect upwards to five invites a day from him. Â So now, the first thing I do once I've gotten control of a new character is to blacklist him before he can start bugging me. Which might seem moot now since I have a FC that I can join with all my characters... but there was a few times where "Tiny" got to me while I was waiting for someone with invite privileges to come back from AFK.
"On the /punt list" -- I was asked to join a LS that I had been told was for OOC RP event planning among FC leaders and their co-leaders/seconds-in-command. Joined... and slowly started getting hints that the LS was going to be an IC one with some REALLY bizarre ideas and themes that myself and my co-leader had no interests in. Eventually we left, and both of us got some harassment from the LS leader and a few other members for doing so.
"Guttermouth" -- The only person who has the honor of being on my blacklist because of their RP. I get it that swearing has a place in RP, I swear IRL and IC, but when every third word out of your mouth is 'c--t' and my polite /tell request to please tone it down a bit is met with a LOT of venom... yeah. Took me a while to feel okay with blacklisting, as this was another RPer and I hate missing half a conversation when I lurk, but in the end this person's RP was just so repulsive to me that I finally hit that button.
Which leaves that last .5%...
"Ugh" -- "Ugh" has the dubious honors of being someone that I blacklist often, but need to take off the blacklist during RP because he RP's often with my group. Sometimes, I forget to put "Ugh" back on blacklist until after I've reached the point where I wish I could just jump through the computer and strangle him. My hatred of this person is long-standing and game-spanning, but I like the rest of my RP group and I'm not about to let "Ugh" run me off.
