Study finds that 74% have been harrassed in online muliplayer games.
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It's not that simple. Try for instance registering as a female on a multiplayer game. See how it goes for a few weeks or so. It's really chilling. No, you cannot look away from that. How are women suppose to behave according to you ?
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On second thought, nah. I'm done here.
On second thought, nah. I'm done here.
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This can be very unpleasant in some games. Much depends on the game and without being controversial...the area of the world. Personally games like Eve Online I found were massively supportive of women in games and I knew several that were very influential in the game.
Ugh, the offhand dismissal is pretty gross tbh. People already make use of blocking tools but it still means they have to hear and read this crap before they can take action and considering how rife it is amongst gamers, it means they get to see or hear a lot of it.
And once again, it is putting the onus on the receiver to take action instead of getting other people to change their behaviour
I'm thinking of examples where "Aww shucks, it's always been like that, that's life" would have been common and most of the times I can think of is when it's defending poopy behaviour.
Bigots don't the world to change because it means they might have to change.
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One wonder whether you are implying people who don't immediate & whole-heatedly agree with you on this subject are "pretty gross" &" nasty old bigots", and other comments you have made this far directed at the people you are debate, equating them as supported of the online hate listed, possibly making participating in this thread qualification of being part of the 74% have been harassed in online.
After all it is how comments are received that is what qualifies harassment, and someone could take yours as repeated and detrimental.
I don't care if people agree or disagree with me. Flippant dismissal of what is clearly quite a large issue is pretty gross, "block them, problem solved" is glossing over the problem. I think people arguing that you should be able to say what you want and that it is on other people to deal with it are absolutely supporting of nasty old bigotry. What else would you call it?
Yeah right. So me arguing that bigotry should be called out is repeated and detrimental harrassment. That's funny.
Won't somebody please think of the poor old bigots...
Okay
You have made it clear
I am not welcome to post in your forums as I might disagree with the manner language and tone you use to disagree with people.
Consider that when you are next up in arms about online bullies
You're not fooling anyone mate. Trying to pull the "good old reversal" by attempting to twist this around and paint me as being abusive is desperate as well as transparent.
Yeah, shame on me for calling out bad behaviour.
Ask yourself who is really up in arms here. There's what, 8 or 10 people who want to defend and make excuses for bad behaviour vs one person who is saying not cool, be better. It's not me that is up in arms, I'm not the one whose ways feel threatened.
In honesty nobody's ways are being threatened surely as a result of this finding. Ita always been down to the "gaming space" owner to police their sessions as they see fit.
For myself, I had no truck with any nastiness when I ran servers. People got warned then they got kicked then they got banned. Simple as that.
I dont really see what the industry as a provider can do to make things more strict. Sadly....and it is sad, relying on people behind monitors in anonymity to just play nice is a difficulty.
We are lucky in many ways in northern Europe the servers aren't all that bad in general. When I was posted to places like middle east...oh man.
For myself, I had no truck with any nastiness when I ran servers. People got warned then they got kicked then they got banned. Simple as that.
I dont really see what the industry as a provider can do to make things more strict. Sadly....and it is sad, relying on people behind monitors in anonymity to just play nice is a difficulty.
We are lucky in many ways in northern Europe the servers aren't all that bad in general. When I was posted to places like middle east...oh man.
That's the scenario that regularly gets trotted out though, threatened by supposed regulation, threat of erosion of free speech, threat of too much political correctness, threat of losing the good old days etc.
I don't know what the ideal answer is but I do feel people need to lead by example and so if someone is being racist, homophobic, generally abusive or whatever then their peers should call them out on it. Peple should be ostracized for it until they can learn to behave, anonymity is no excuse.
Taking a backseat and saying that's the way of the internet or that people are too sensitive is either condoning or being embarrassingly apathetic and neither of which help at all.
If I made time to call out randoms for perceived (I only say perceived because this is a personal perception and differs between folk) bad behaviour during my time online I'd not be playing my game with the over and back and frankly just feeding the idiots, this is what they want....best thing for all concerned including the subject is to move on or ignore.
Like I said when I ran servers I used the powers to get rid of these idiots. I did not expect my visitors to do it in chat and call people out as that just fed into the rubbish and made more admin for me.
End of day it's down to people to not feed the clowns.
Like I said when I ran servers I used the powers to get rid of these idiots. I did not expect my visitors to do it in chat and call people out as that just fed into the rubbish and made more admin for me.
End of day it's down to people to not feed the clowns.
The best way to deal with toxic players is to teabag them.
But if you have 74% of 1000 people experiencing some form of abuse then something is clearly not working.
I don't know what the best answer is but I do know that the old ways are not enough and I also know that change is not effected by being silent or ignoring the situation.
Part of the issue is how easy it is to sign up with a new username/email address whereas if you're banned from a pub or casino they've got a photo-fit and there's nought you can do about it, which means some other method has to be found. That's why I think people need to step up and be more vocal about it, if only to let these turds know no-one else is laughing along with them, a joke is only really funny if it's shared.
Not really why I posted the image...but a clever tactic all the same using it to artificially reinforce your standpoint.
Personally....I just think folks are becoming way too precious with the internet filling their constant need for attention. ...But, I'm old and from a generation where home telephones were a luxury and only the rich folks had colour TV's.
I dont think people do laugh along with this garbage Zetta mate. People mainly just want to play the game. Like I said above if people react to the clowns it empowers them to continue, it's what they are after. No one that does this is EVER EVER EVER going to have a second thought and think to themselves that they ought to change their ways and apologise. EVER.
They.
Are.
Best.
Ignored/kicked/banned
People chiming in that dont have admin powers are unhelpful as it just feeds the chat roll of this sizzle
They.
Are.
Best.
Ignored/kicked/banned
People chiming in that dont have admin powers are unhelpful as it just feeds the chat roll of this sizzle
I thought politics wasn’t allowed on here, which is certainly what this boils down to.
I won’t link it here but look on YouTube for:
“Academics expose corruption in grievance studies”
I won’t link it here but look on YouTube for:
“Academics expose corruption in grievance studies”
I've played online, off and on, for probably a couple of decades and can not recall experiencing most of what that article is describing. Of course that doesn't mean it doesn't happen, of course it does, but as has already been said, ignore or move on to something else. This kind of thing has been going on since Adam was a lad and is not something peculiar to being online. Anyone who hasn't experienced a bully at school, or got picked on by the gang in the other street, or threatened by some drunk womble down the pub has probably led a pretty lucky life.
Also, I have a natural scepticism for any article which starts with ' A study finds...'
Only last year the papers were trying to convince me my beloved sausages were going to kill me because ' A study finds...'
Also, I have a natural scepticism for any article which starts with ' A study finds...'
Only last year the papers were trying to convince me my beloved sausages were going to kill me because ' A study finds...'
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