Over the years, I've felt that the community as a whole has become increasingly wipe averse.
We don't like doing things where our characters die. This isn't necessarily unreasonable. We'd like to be in situations where we always come out on top. Where we're the hero and we save the day, kill the bad guy, and rescue the girl.
But I remember a time where we literally had wipe nights. When we'd bang our heads against a single boss all night long, wipe, re-clear trash and try again. With LFR, that's not happening. We hit a snag, wipe, and 3 people drop. Wipe again and 6 more go. Three times? You're luck if the raid holds together enough to replace people. New people join, see the buff and zone out immediately.
How do people feel about wiping? About what they see in response to new content where people are learning? How many times is too many for you? Do you feel people need more patience and fortitude?
Keep it reasonable, folks. This isn't an insult your fellow player thread.
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pssst.... wanna buy some noodles?
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I'm planting Enigma Seeds.
4 Golden Lotus today. What's your crop of choice? |
I can wait to destroy people with my magic lamp. Creepy Crate will eat your lamp. Creepy Crate hungers... |
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I don't know how much fun reputation systems are going to be.
I haven't had a lot of fun with them in the past. |
No. They didn't. Just because your name is on your mailbox isn't a reason for someone to start publicizing it for harassment purposes. You're blaming a victim. Which (should the shoe ever be on the other foot) means you welcome someone doing inappropriate things to you should you ever make a mistake. We're all human. We all make mistakes. Mistakes are not an excuse for someone to do something bad to you. |
You don't know this. It's not relevant to the issue at hand. And making statements like this with absolutely no evidence whatsoever isn't appropriate. Like Huggy said, it's saying (without witnessing the issue) that the victim was "asking for it." |
I bow to the use of the word "pokey." It's interesting that when someone's describing issues of harassment due to someone essentially destroying their privacy... the first response of people is to attempt to further degrade their privacy. |
It doesn't matter. To take an analogy to an extreme, having someone cut you off is no excuse for road rage and causing them to be injured or killed. There is something being done that's against the rules (and just a completely inappropriate thing to do even if Blizzard didn't have those rules). There is no reason to do it. Nothing can justify it. On the flip side, its not your business. It's not my business. We don't have the right to sit in judgement. What happened isn't something we need to know about it. The relevant parties are the victim, the accused, and Blizzard. That's it. |
Seriously, what did you do to warrant such griefers? Stop blaming victims. What happened is irrelevant. There is no excuse for harassing someone. You have no right to know. It's not part of the discussion. Move on. |
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I would suggest posting in Customer Support. Perhaps you can get some more guidance there.
I would strongly recommend you keep reporting everyone who post real life information. Make it an important part of the ticket that this is an ongoing issue and that's it's something you've reported in the past. There's a penalty volcano and unfortunately there are people who don't take the lower rungs of ladder very seriously. So if they get a warning, they redouble their efforts because they've provoked a response. They get a day off from WoW and they get upset and organize others to harass someone. Keep going. Eventually they will get something serious enough to make them take notice. Will it take longer than you wish? Most likely. But keep going. |
That was interesting. But isn't making a post about a deleted thread against the rules? It is. But Rygarius is the moderator. If he allows us to have a thread, it's OK. And it's a game forum. Innocent threads that allow us to interact socially aren't necessarily bad. If it gets out of hand, Rygarius will lock it down. A lot of rules shouldn't be ironclad. They should have at least a little bit of wiggle room in them. Which makes having a human moderator a good thing. |
Tim Horton's. It's a chain. <---lives outside of the land of Timmies. |
Ok, that's probably a bit obsessive. |
Excuse me? Coffee is the elixir of the gods. |
The pug is saying if you abuse this particular tool, it's possible you'll no longer be able to post here at all. |
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If you don't find it fun... what would be fun?
It's one thing to say you're not interested in doing something in particular, but it really doesn't give anyone any clear direction as to what you'd like to be doing. |
hm... Ok... No. I just don't equate hack and slash RPGing with the sounds of "smooth jazz." |
Captain? Hrm... We should definitely have a Mrs. Cake. |
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