Excellent brain food,
This brings up some interesting ideas... After reading other peoples posts it definitely seems a common line that a good deal of this (what's a good term for it. "OOC back chat"? I feel like gossiping can be seen as fairly mundane. Anyroad.) Malignant Gossiping occurs towards people who used to be part of "X group" or "Y FC" and rarely towards the wandering vagrants.
Despite my lack of involvement with my current FC, and the way I skulk about the world in general it still surprises me how often I get a "Oh but I thought all of that FC was like ____ or didn't like ____ people and that you were an asshole" or what have you in compared to when I was a "freelancer". Although I was arguably ruder ICly/and less schedule reliable. Sometimes I wonder how Eorzea would be without FC's..
It would be an interesting experiment to compare how often people were bothered/harassed on a monthly basis broken down by how active they are in the RPC/ how many/what FC's and the same for linkshells. on an OOC vs IC basis as well as just time wise. (like theoretically, could having any more than one or two OOC LS's dramatically increase the amount of shittalking you have to go through?) None of that being an excuse for the harassers of course, I just like data.
Also because that leads me to wondering, since one of the two blow ups that i've been around (that I can recall) happened in an OOC LS. How's the fall out to these situations (on average)? I was in a linkshell when some frankly disturbing "he said she said" went down between the leader and some members about someone who had recently been booted, and I just left the shell asking them to reinvite me when they were done being a bunch of sassy sammies (I hate hearing about other peoples IC relations OOCly because i'm one of those "keep the encounter pure and free from potential meta information" peeps, and had made that clear upon joining mind you..) evidently not toeing the line and hearing how bad this removed person was, wasn't the right decision and I was denied re-entry.
Out of Curiosity, whats the rate of retention when this stuff happens? afaik I was the only person to leave due to the malignant gossiping although others have mentioned that they simply filtered the channel if it was a "practical" LS with a use (eg. Balmungs Finest.).
Thoughts? Either way Sasha well put.*
Edit: Miss spelt OP's name, much dishonor.
This brings up some interesting ideas... After reading other peoples posts it definitely seems a common line that a good deal of this (what's a good term for it. "OOC back chat"? I feel like gossiping can be seen as fairly mundane. Anyroad.) Malignant Gossiping occurs towards people who used to be part of "X group" or "Y FC" and rarely towards the wandering vagrants.
Despite my lack of involvement with my current FC, and the way I skulk about the world in general it still surprises me how often I get a "Oh but I thought all of that FC was like ____ or didn't like ____ people and that you were an asshole" or what have you in compared to when I was a "freelancer". Although I was arguably ruder ICly/and less schedule reliable. Sometimes I wonder how Eorzea would be without FC's..
It would be an interesting experiment to compare how often people were bothered/harassed on a monthly basis broken down by how active they are in the RPC/ how many/what FC's and the same for linkshells. on an OOC vs IC basis as well as just time wise. (like theoretically, could having any more than one or two OOC LS's dramatically increase the amount of shittalking you have to go through?) None of that being an excuse for the harassers of course, I just like data.
Also because that leads me to wondering, since one of the two blow ups that i've been around (that I can recall) happened in an OOC LS. How's the fall out to these situations (on average)? I was in a linkshell when some frankly disturbing "he said she said" went down between the leader and some members about someone who had recently been booted, and I just left the shell asking them to reinvite me when they were done being a bunch of sassy sammies (I hate hearing about other peoples IC relations OOCly because i'm one of those "keep the encounter pure and free from potential meta information" peeps, and had made that clear upon joining mind you..) evidently not toeing the line and hearing how bad this removed person was, wasn't the right decision and I was denied re-entry.
Out of Curiosity, whats the rate of retention when this stuff happens? afaik I was the only person to leave due to the malignant gossiping although others have mentioned that they simply filtered the channel if it was a "practical" LS with a use (eg. Balmungs Finest.).
Thoughts? Either way Sasha well put.*
Edit: Miss spelt OP's name, much dishonor.
