The Hunt Public Shaming Needs to end

[Kosmos992k]

I think that, if the players who are out there searching for the mobs don't make it in time, the pull was too early.

How does the person pulling know if everyone that was actively hunting in the zone for that mark is already there or not?

The point Snugglebutt was making is that the definition of 'early' is entirely subjective. Or as Douglas Adams put it, "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." The whole discussion revolving around the word "early" is pointless since there is no universal frame of reference. What is early to you, could be perfectly on time for someone else, long over due to yet another, and in the middle of a bite of sandwich for that bloke playing with a controller in one hand and his lunch in the other. Your opinion that something is early, is entirely accurate - for you. But not for everyone.

So, how does the person pulling the mark know that not only are all the active hunters in the zone, regardless of LS membership, present for the pull, but also that they are all ready to pull? Obviously, they can't know any of this at all, all they can know is whether their own team is ready to go. So, once they are ready, why should they wait? How long should they wait? How do they know when to stop waiting? Is Nyaruko going to 'port in to give permission to pull? These and many other fascinating questions will go unanswered because while I was asking them in LS chat, someone pulled the mark, and now I get no credit. Kill the heretic!

Because this idea of a "early" pull is a social construct, it's extremely subjective and context sensitive. In effect, it's really only relevant within a specific subgroup. For instance, let's say you have two hunting LS, and players from both find an S mark and announce it on their respective LS. There are no players who are members of both, so neither LS is aware that the other has already announced the mark. After a couple of minutes the active members of LS 'A' have all arrived and confirmed that they are ready, and so tank 'A' pulls the mark. LS 'B' was a little slow getting there, and only a few of their members had arrived yet. The news goes up in their LS that the mark has been pulled. Suddenly the shout channel errupts with outrage as players from LS 'B' teleport into the area and realize the mark is almost down. Someone shouts that tank 'A' pulled early. Kill the heretic!

Did tank 'A' pull early? Obviously it depends entirely on which Linkshell you are a member of. In other words, it's completely subjective. There is no objective definition of an "early pull"...

P.S. I'll throw in an additional Douglas Adams quote just for fun, since it might be applicable to the way that some posters (not you) on the SE forum behave.... "I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it."