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What are they doing?
-- interacting with someone in the most awful and annoying way they can think of until they get a reaction out of the person they are targeting
Why are people doing this?
-- because they thinks it's funny; because their friends think it's funny
What reaction are they after?
-- any reaction that causes anger, sadness, shame, or a feeling of being unwelcome
And you're fine with this? You're ok with this? In a social VR setting (definition of social: relating to or designed for activities in which people meet each other for pleasure), you're ok with a person or group of people singling others out and making them unwelcome because they think it's funny? Don't bother answering.
It's ok for them to do this if it doesn't bother you? I don't care if someone calls me a n****r, but at the same time, I would never say that to someone else. But I don't approve of the word, and I have already been injured in a local grocery store when a couple of asshats in line started talking shit to a black cashier. I don't tolerate it, whether he's a snowflake or not.
Oh, but they can just ignore the person ... So then they're surrounded by people they can't 'hear' or 'see' who are continuing to amuse themselves, and when the video shows up on twitch it's all good.
Society, etiquette, manners, and good behavior do not stop at any boundary, whether it's the telephone, e-mail, newspaper, or your precious annonymous internet. You need to figure that out. Any time you're dealing with another human being, no matter what the interface, you should remember that it's another human being. The annonymity of the internet is causing a breakdown in civilization. It's not funny, it's not cool, and it's not a proper way to amuse yourself.
Although I do like to teabag my own guildmates.
P.S. I introduced my niece to a really cool chatroom devoted to people who were into music, alternative and unknown artists, and music history. But she didn't like it. It took more than a year to find out that there was a guy in the chatroom who kept asking her if she liked anal sex, kept asking her to describe what she would do while giving him a blowjob, and kept asking her for her to join him in a private channel. She was 13.
P.P.S. I have always wanted Blizzard to make a family server where child-friendly behaviors are enforced. I would have paid an extra $5 a month. But I'm a hypocrite, because I would never belong to a guild that was a family oriented. I have always addressed by guildmates as 'blood farts', and my battle cry is, "I FUCK GOATS!" But that behavior is behind a guild threshold that only people who have my sense of humor are allowed to cross.
-- interacting with someone in the most awful and annoying way they can think of until they get a reaction out of the person they are targeting
Why are people doing this?
-- because they thinks it's funny; because their friends think it's funny
What reaction are they after?
-- any reaction that causes anger, sadness, shame, or a feeling of being unwelcome
And you're fine with this? You're ok with this? In a social VR setting (definition of social: relating to or designed for activities in which people meet each other for pleasure), you're ok with a person or group of people singling others out and making them unwelcome because they think it's funny? Don't bother answering.
It's ok for them to do this if it doesn't bother you? I don't care if someone calls me a n****r, but at the same time, I would never say that to someone else. But I don't approve of the word, and I have already been injured in a local grocery store when a couple of asshats in line started talking shit to a black cashier. I don't tolerate it, whether he's a snowflake or not.
Oh, but they can just ignore the person ... So then they're surrounded by people they can't 'hear' or 'see' who are continuing to amuse themselves, and when the video shows up on twitch it's all good.
Society, etiquette, manners, and good behavior do not stop at any boundary, whether it's the telephone, e-mail, newspaper, or your precious annonymous internet. You need to figure that out. Any time you're dealing with another human being, no matter what the interface, you should remember that it's another human being. The annonymity of the internet is causing a breakdown in civilization. It's not funny, it's not cool, and it's not a proper way to amuse yourself.
Although I do like to teabag my own guildmates.
P.S. I introduced my niece to a really cool chatroom devoted to people who were into music, alternative and unknown artists, and music history. But she didn't like it. It took more than a year to find out that there was a guy in the chatroom who kept asking her if she liked anal sex, kept asking her to describe what she would do while giving him a blowjob, and kept asking her for her to join him in a private channel. She was 13.
P.P.S. I have always wanted Blizzard to make a family server where child-friendly behaviors are enforced. I would have paid an extra $5 a month. But I'm a hypocrite, because I would never belong to a guild that was a family oriented. I have always addressed by guildmates as 'blood farts', and my battle cry is, "I FUCK GOATS!" But that behavior is behind a guild threshold that only people who have my sense of humor are allowed to cross.
