Why I Decided to Become an Elitist

[Duskbringer]

I think you're thoughts are on the sorta good side, but you really come off as a jerk while I read that. I have a friend of mine that plays, and he has cerebral palsy. He manages to play with a controller, but sometimes he's a little slow to dodge AoE's. I was doing World of Darkness with him last night, and of course, he gets frozen by that big floating eye fight in the urgonnadiezone... and dies. At that point, I won't drop any names, but a WHM starts emote slapping him. He's talking to me on teamspeak, obviously confused as to why he's getting slapped, and I just tell him the whm is a jerk. But this whm SPAMS slap emotes. It's taking up the entire chat log.

He gets a raise from a whm not even in our party, and we continue. And he gets hit, but manages to stay alive the rest of the night. But everytime he gets hit, this whm slaps him, and starts complaining about carrying scrubs in WoD.

This is the kind of elitist I hate.

[GenJoe]

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Well, to be fair, the random WHM didn't know about your friend's conditions.
But that kind of expectation or shaming of noobs in a DF group, especially on contents such as WoD, is unwarranted.
That's not elitism, elitism requires you to know what you're getting yourself into, when you're sorry out of luck, and when to call it quits. IMO, elitism is about knowledge, being able to assess the situation correctly and decisively. In doing so, some people may call an elitist an impatient coward, and that can be due to a variance of opinion, or experience to draw the proper conclusion from.

Again, just randomly /slapping people for dying in a raid is not elitist..