Black Listing A Lot Lately...

Lately, it seems like I find myself having to black list more and more recently than I have done in my years of playing... Of course I am not black listing players willy-nilly, I am talking about the huge number of bots and veteran players being unreasonably rude to newer players (like, please don't do mentor roulette if you don't want to deal with synced content with sprouts).
Anyone else facing similar dilemma of nearly maxing out your black-list or already maxed out?

I'm struggling to see where this epidemic of rude players is taking place. Seriously. lol Something's not quite right...

I could fill a black list multiple times on just bots in a single day. Its not wort blacklisting them. As for players, it takes a lot for me to blacklist any given player. I haven't in a long while. And i run mentor roulette a lot... So either you are black list happy or filling it with bots, from my experience anyways.

I long-since stopped trying to keep gil seller bots blacklisted, it's a losing battle. These days, my list is mostly made up of people that spam FC/ERP advertisements in /sh.

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Originally Posted by Vahlnir

I'm struggling to see where this epidemic of rude players is taking place.

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they have always been there?

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Originally Posted by Rinhi

they have always been there?

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Right, but there's not a sudden surge of them taking place. They've always been around, but they've always been a minority of the game's population. That hasn't changed.

I haven't run into one player I have had to blacklist in 3 months I am just not seeing the rude player influx

I personally only blacklisted a grand total of... one person my whole time of playing for two years, a mentor to be specific. I usually don't put people on blacklists unless I absolutely have to. Most of my interactions with others have been nice, and I usually just report bots on sight rather than fill up my blacklist like that. If I do encounter a truly awful person in the future they will go on the blacklist, but that isn't likely since I tend to give people chances rather than immediately kick them into the blacklist unless they cross a line, or irritate me with a pet peeve.

You probably have been just unlucky, since the majority of people in game have been pretty chill and nice.

Played since 2014 Q1 and never had to blacklist anyone and my skin is pretty thin.

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Originally Posted by Vahlnir

Right, but there's not a sudden surge of them taking place. They've always been around, but they've always been a minority of the game's population. That hasn't changed.

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Yea I really wonder about some of those who say there has been a noticeable jump in toxicity in the game recently. Where is it? I have not seen it at all. Pretty often I see people say "it's them WoW players ruining the game!" and after months of reading comments relating to this I have yet to see a noticeable negative change in player interactions in the game. The only noticeable changes I have seen is the amount of players hanging out in cities and login queues.

Sure sometimes people can be unlucky and can end up just meeting a lot of meanspirited people due to no fault of their own. But some others who I met in the past who had similar complaints turned out to be the problem themselves. I'm not putting OP in either basket because I frankly do not know them. Though after having a quick glance through their post history I am inclined to think they're just having a patch of bad luck.

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Lately, it seems like I find myself having to black list more and more recently than I have done in my years of playing... Of course I am not black...

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Originally Posted by Vahlnir

Right, but there's not a sudden surge of them taking place. They've always been around, but they've always been a minority of the game's population. That hasn't changed.

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my guess is that it's a mix of two or even more separate things;

people are more brazen with their toxicity because they've been getting away with it for a while or even years and have never gotten a warning or a suspension for it (or maybe they did but didn't care and just made a new account)
in addition to that, people projecting their own various feelings, failings and whatnot on a designated target and blaming them for it, usually accompanied by using some made up or blown out of proportion issue to deem said player as problematic and proceeding to witch hunt them, sometimes even with a community's backing or even a group effort (as seen in various RP related crystal drama google docs where this very same thing happens over and over and over again, shame they break the rules if someone would post them and that others have been deleted and/or hidden since they're an interesting read imo)

and on the other hand, people who think every oh so minor 'transgression' they experienced is the result of pure personal hatred by the supposed perpetrator, every word a personal attack even if it was, say, a compliment because they're so insanely paranoid that everyone's out to get them
hell, this kind of person can even be part of the same group if they decide to 'defend themselves' by attacking - or aiming a/their community and friends at the 'bad person' that probably doesn't even know why it's happening

not that I'm saying that the OP or the other thread creators are the latter and that it's way more likely the former, but with the content lull, the pandemic lockdowns still existing in various countries and states and the effects those have on even a healthy person's psyche, it's no surprise to me that 'it's getting worse' this year

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Originally Posted by jojobritt911

Lately, it seems like I find myself having to black list more and more recently than I have done in my years of playing... Of course I am not black listing players willy-nilly, I am talking about the huge number of bots and veteran players being unreasonably rude to newer players (like, please don't do mentor roulette if you don't want to deal with synced content with sprouts).
Anyone else facing similar dilemma of nearly maxing out your black-list or already maxed out?

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Maybe you're the problem. Have you thought about that!?

I've played since late ARR and have, lets see... 10 people blacklisted. They get on my list for being rude to me or another party member, telling spoilers in chat or disrupting play. Are you sure you're not being thin skinned? "Please don't do mentor roulette if you don't want to deal with synced content with sprouts" makes me wonder about the details of the situation.

Mentors get hate for all kinds of things including valid advice such as "it's best to use PF for extremes", "you get more info by watching a guide" or "please pull more / cast glare / do some aoe". People can be clueless about their lack of knowledge and mistake that for the mentor being bad. Someone gave me attitude because I was kiting a pack I got aggro on after the tank disconnected, apparently I wasn't being nice to the sprout healer by doing that. Lmao.

I blacklisted maaaaany RMT spammers over the last couple of weeks. Why Square Enix cannot do something against them? It is really annoying. And i have clean up the blacklist every day because the RMT spammers are only active some hours a day.

Cheers

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Originally Posted by Vahlnir

I'm struggling to see where this epidemic of rude players is taking place. Seriously. lol Something's not quite right...

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There's been a minor increase, but nothing crazy. I see it in the Novice Network usually; Xenophobic mentors butting heads with WoW refugees mostly. There's also been a massive increase in people tackling synced EX's in DF, which the OP cites specifically, and that has also made a lot of mentors salty.

Yah I don't Blacklist bots anymore unless they're sending me /tells constantly... which hasn't been a thing in a long time. I can't even remember when that was happening... end of ARR or during HW, but they would constantly spam tells at ppl. Dozens per hour.

I seldom get /tell spam nowadays, and when I do I just access the submenu from chat log and report RMT.

Major issue with blacklisting bots is that they do eventually get erased... then you have to go through your blacklist and manually remove the deleted entries so they're not taking up a slot.

My BList now has less then ten entries of ppl I'm fine with never interacting with again.

I don't block the bots, since it's a waste of space, but I've blocked about 150-ish run sellers in the PF. I've actually had to keep a notepad list because of them using alts and getting around my blacklist to spam post their run selling groups so I could report people who use the same exact ad.

They really need to make it where you just flat out block an account, so you auto block between their 1 and 40 characters they can have.

I have blocked ONE character in game. Lets just say what was whispered to me was so pornagraphic and vile that I fantasia'd that toon to NOT be a lalafel anymore immediately.

I don't worry about bots. I think in 7 years of playing I have...10...people on my blacklist? I'm not really seeing a jump in toxicity in the game, even with the influx of new players.

I don't blacklist anyone but people telling me how to play my job/class, they can **** off for all i care XD i play to have fun and learning my class, not being harassed and bullied by elitists and elitist mentors

I never thought i was going to have to use the blacklist since i started playing but when the toxic level started to increase on the server i am currently on i came to realize it's time to use the tool they have given us :( ( bullies are the worse) so i vouch for this post in hope they will increase the list so it can operate to it's fullest extent.

Never blacklisted anyone. No reason to, not even the couple people I occasionally saw more than once in Bozja that were slightly annoying to me. Most of the time I never see the player again. Frankly, I barely read or remember player names, so I wouldn't know who it was in the first place, if I happened to see them again, most of the time.

I think I only blacklisted 1 sprout person just because he made me waste 2 whole 41-50 potd run, refusing to learn and calling me wow toxic (which was the first time ever in a year and such and never touched any other mmos) but then I removed because I want to see if I will ever re meet that person again and see how far he is in the attitude or if he changed.
Other than that used to blacklist bots but really they just keep appearing so i do not even bother anymore

I rarely find the same people unless it is Eureka or Frontline in reset day time but these 2 have never been a problem overall

My blacklist has been full for years. It's pretty much all gil sellers. Maybe it's time to do another sweep and clean it out.

I have not myself. The only people who I've had to blacklist are:

-3 people being weird in RP
-1 spammer

As for actual groups? They've been pretty nice for the most part.