(09-25-2013, 07:00 PM)SessionZero Wrote: All right, so just to clarify a few things, because apparently clarification is needed.
1) I am not thin-skinned. I was not posting this as a "QQ this guy ruined our RP I'm so sad" thread, more of a "Lol look at this asshole" thread, because while his crafting was hardly disruptive to the point where our RP could not continue, I did find it funny that out of aaaaallllll the spots in the Quicksand where he could have crafted, he chose smack dab in the middle of our table, so obviously it was intentional. It was meant for lulz, not for raging.Â
2) I make liberal use of my blacklist for trolls like the ones who showed up after our crafting friend here. As should everyone. Ignoring them is by far the best course of action, because they feed on attention and even a simple "Your life must be so sad, that you can waste time in a pay-to-play game disrupting others' enjoyment of the game" will only feed their sad little game and encourage their behavior.Â
3) To whichever poster it was playing devil's advocate, no, we cannot make them respect our desire to RP in the game, nor is there really anything we or Square can do to force them to stop, but having your jimmies at least a little rustled that they do it is not being a crybaby bitch about it. It is a justifiable reaction and something that these forums are, in part, here for. So don't be surprised or offended or exasperated or whatever when someone throws up a thread about trolls where they just want to blow off a little steam.
#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.
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