Online Bullying - A Dev request for a response and discussion

[Suellen]

If someone talked like what was shared in the jpeg to a coworker at an office, you wouldn't tell the coworker to "suck it up and deal". You'd tell him to report it and get the offender fired. There's a reason we have Harassment laws. If you act poorly at your workplace you will get fired. If you act poorly in an online community, you should get banned. It's as simple as that.

[Huginn]

ah, i see that you have gone through your government mandated sensitivity training that hs taught you that anyone who ever tells you that you are not a unique and special snowflake is a bully. and after-all, bullies are bad people, which makes it OK to do bad things to them.

Please grow up, it is bad enough that the US military's Special Forces has to deal with and re-educate babies who have been told all their life that we don't have to keep score and everyone can win. Please stop bringing this to my fantasy game. When you say "bully," all i can think of is that you have very poor confidence and thin skin. If someone is being a total jerk, without reason, just kick them from party, or leave the DF yourself.

[16bitBounty]

I must have picked the right server because I haven't experienced any of this. I've been irritated with several of the tanks I've been in a group with and a snapped at them to do their job but I've yet to insult or be insulted by anyone.




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[Londis2013]

Honestly, at any point you can walk away. Yes, it is not right that people use race, gender, and religious background to harass people, but still... Just walk away. Quit the raid/dungeon. The other option is to just move on and ignore them.

Being an individual who has faced much racism in his life, nothing changes by putting up the "good fight" in a video game. It is a video game. If we were talking about your work place, then it would be a different situation.

As far as criminal charges... The first amendment states that they can say whatever they want, whenever they want, as long as they do not perform physical harm against you. No criminal charges would be brought against them.

[Aegis]

There's no excuse for name calling. That's generally understood by age 5. I don't care if you are frustrated, mad or have just waited 3 hours for a party that fails. Don't like the party? leave. You gain nothing by antagonising someone else and you risk being reported. If you are such an awesome player, why are you using DF anyway? play with your FC. leave DF for those making their way through content.

[Tawm]

I usually just respond with "I didn't know children were allowed on the internet in kindergarten.".
That said, I've rarely encountered assholes.

When I do, the whole group tends to lash out at him/her.

[Shori]

If its affecting your game just use the 'report harassment' button under Support in System. I usually manage to ignore the trolls using shout or yell but I see how it could be annoying if you've queued for a dungeon for ages and now need to start over.

[Efrye]

[...] If children dont learn how to handel such person, the gorw up in adults that cant handle such person. [...]

So instead we let them grow up thinking that it's perfectly fine to insult other people? I don't think that's the right solution. Riot Games is taking an interesting approach to solve this problem in League of Legends and they seem to be successful with it. Note that I'm not saying that League of Legends has a great and helpful community, but that they apparently found ways to reduce toxic player behaviour.

Kids don't need this extreme negativity of the internet to grow up - "real life" has enough of that already. There have always been and there will always be people who didn't learn their lesson and are more... sensitive than others. Internet communities won't fix that - if anything they'll make it worse.

[Raniont]

I really wish we had a kick button. I was in the first 8 man dungeon last night, not the boss fight the instance after it. We reach the first boss and the one of the bards gets locked out because he's watching a cut scene. I mention this hoping the tank would stop a sec, his response was "It's his own f'n fault, scroll up and read the rules". Rules? It's a damn pug! This guy was a massive jackass, would sprint way ahead of the group to pull giant packs, which meant the healers had to spam heal him as he was taking massive damage.We got to the 3rd boss he's not picking up ANY of the 7-9 adds that are spawning. I'm running around kiting 9 adds that are beating on me, trying to heal myself, the few group members left and the tank. After we wipe his response is "Jesus man, Do you not think you can 1 heal this?"

If we had, had the option to kick this jackass and wait for another tank we would have. But no, kicking him would have been mean.

[silverhope]

Usally this is how most people act.. Hey can you please grab the adds there on the healer Tank says "Shut up let me do my job" Tank dies Tanks says "WTF why didnt you heal me" wellt han yea i get mad cuz I asked nicely and this jerk wont listen than blames others.. I dont blame people like this being called idiot and the such but I dont agree with race,gender,religion name calling.