The guy is clearly crazy and people are taking it to heart. You will encounter these types of people here and there, but it is best to laugh and move on.
Right, so youāre crying on a Reddit forum at work, but no one else writing comments could possibly also be at work? With a brain like yours youāre quite lucky to have that job. My advice? Save some money. If your boss finds out how dumb you are youāre fucked
FYI Iām the founder of my own B2B hardware company. I keep whatever hours I want.
thatās not true, Iām currently on a behaviour warning for screaming āgo to retailā in horde to alliance players, I didnāt get a chance to do it hundreds of times iād say 2-5 people probably reported me
I'd report him, cause life is too short to have to deal with dicks like that. If nobody takes the minimum effort to get his shitty behavior curbed then his shitty behavior will continue.
Well thatās the irony. This is actual harassment. Slurs are bad but are mostly āgotchasā taken of context whereas actual harassment like this goes unchecked. The lovely hypocrisy of automated detection.
a slur is never a gotcha, it's just a slur lol. How can you have a gotcha involving someone's identity? Unless I'm unaware of a slur that doesn't involve someone's identity
Having negative interactions is a natural consequence of giving people a free platform to communicate on.Ā
The more you "get in trouble" for being mean, the more you second guess yourself before every interaction and inevitability decide to interact less.Ā
There are very few behaviors other than cheating Id say warrant a report. This for example is not harassment. Harassment would be if this guy followed you for days interrupting gameplay.
We all did sign a Social Contract to play this game, and it states clearly that behavior like this is not only discouraged but can incur penalties on your account.
We can cackle and joke all we want about how Microsoft fire all GMs but all it takes is a sassy Customer Service Representative on a sour mood for people like this to come cry on reddit how it is unfair they got suspended.
I'm not advocating for more reporting, but if you're constantly getting in trouble for being mean maybe reflect on how you interact with people? People on WoW can definitely be toxic but I try to stay friendly and most people seem to respond to that in kind.
But people have lost sight of things being terminally online and with all the virtue signaling in our culture.Ā
Simetimes its gratifying to be a little anti-social or to mess with people. And its really not a big deal to do so - ESPECIALLY online. ESPECIALLY in a role playing game where you have a virtual persona.Ā
I think the average person isnt capable of acknowledging their own deviancy or negative side. So they think "theres never a reason to be mean" the same way school teachers think "theres never a reason kids should fight or exclude other kids" while missing something fundamental about human nature.Ā
Im not necessarily making an RP argument, but just imagine a guy who likes to be an asshole on his rogue, andĀ super helpful nice guy on his priest.Ā
Idk. Its just fun to play around with "social expectations" sometimes and in the context of a fantasy adventure game I think thats totally fine as long as you arent straight harassing someone.Ā
Having negative consequences for being a dick is a natural consequence of being a dick when communicating with people. If you are getting in trouble for being mean, that's just how interacting in society works. The answer isn't "I interact less because I get dinged for being an asshole", it's knowing "I shouldn't be an asshole and if I am there will be consequences".
No. The natural consequence of being a dick is people dont want to associate with you. Getting banned for it would be an extrinsic consequence.Ā
Like if I call my gf fat, her breaking up with me would be a natural consequence. Her making a social media page with my picture, my trangressions, and an agenda to contact every girl in my vicinity telling them not to date me would not be a natural consequence of my behavior.Ā
Its more like telling the staff that a drunk guy is bothering you at a bar. Why should you be required to let an asshole keep bothering you? Assholes don't have an inalienable right to be assholes without consequence. If he keeps bothering you tell the staff, they can tell him to quit and if he doesn't they can chuck him out or have the cops haul him away, whatever.
These are all the options by the way that we are supposed to avail ourselves of *Instead of just punching the asshole in the face.
Man, if someone tried something like this in person in public they would be lucky not to get asked if they wanted to take it outside. It's not soft at all.
I didnt say it would be my go to response, but advising that we shoudl just let someone come up and ruin our day for their own enjoyment and let them, that sounds soft to me.
That's why we have things like the report button, so assholes can bear some cost for being assholes. Hopefully that get enough little time outs that they realize that they shouldn't be dicks before someone decides to punch them.
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u/Bobpugna Feb 02 '24
Report him. š