Quote Originally Posted by Ronduwil View Post
No one ever said anything in support of AFKing. They said that there's no need to dignify a request for bigger pulls with a response. There's a big difference there.
There's quite a few here, actually, and that's just in this thread. I've had it enough times in group content.

But, I can poke a moment into the lack of response situation too. I of course, can only speak of experience here, but usually when someone doesn't respond to someone saying something, it usually is worse than a no. It's not that these guys are on ps4 and can't respond in a timely manner, because from my own experience of "I'll assume your silence is consent," before the ToS changing anyways making giving advice without permission bannable, daring to actually help has usually resulted in some... nasty players.

I specifically remember one, and while this was just a map party, I saw a BLM that was very much struggling. He was randomly doing blizzard 3 and fire 3, randomly transposing, random single target cold flaring, there wasn't any pattern within the mess. I asked if he wanted some help, and he of course left me on read, so I chose to between the spins in the portal give him advice, on single target, aoe, when to use either, etc. I tried to be clear and helpful.

What was my reward for that? Oh he could type now all right, beginning to verbally harass me in party chat. Know what could have avoided my "wrath" that was helpful advice? Telling me no. But instead now he's going at me about how horrible of a person I am and should die of cancer and such. And even after kicking him, he proceeded to continue in whisper, even waiting for me to finish portals to continue the ramblings.

I've encountered this guy multiple times since. Map circles end up small sometimes like that, it's always fun. I wouldn't say his gameplay was acceptable, I wouldn't say his attitude was acceptable. And yet for the time he was there, he was making just as much result as I was, and that's pretty frustrating.