Were you clearly joking? No, you weren't clear. It definitely didn't help that you started out calling the party weak and thinking you were better than them in some way.

I believe the BLM's lash out was the anger of his deaths, the jokes being seen as attacks to him and his skill, and the thank you comment the tip of his boiling point. The way you asked for a thank you was worded like a demand for a thank you, which is poor reason to thank someone. Without that comment, I bet he would've just left silently.



You can still be called an elitist even if you're not geared like one. Attitude plays the major factor as I would base "Elitism" on a person's skill and humility. Saying you deserved a thank you was the lack of humility, therefore based on the events that you transcribed, I would have also assumed you were being an elitist.

The server you play on only plays a small part of being an elitist. He ultimately was generalizing your server based on your actions and any other Goblinite players he may have come across. For example, say he's met you and one other person that were being elitists. Well to him, that's 100% of the people he met from Goblin that he considers an elitist and therefore generalizes the whole server as elitists.

In the future, I would ask if you could pay more attention to your first impressions and be less of a joker to players you've never met. Not everyone is going to laugh, and some will only laugh to call you a *bleep* off screen.