When spreding cheer and goodwill on christmas day can get you in trouble

[VictorTheed]

Merry Christmas OP & anyone else reading this.

[Bobby66]

empty and meaningless??? sounds like someone is projecting there issues onto others... I do everything in good faith with no malice, sounds like you would do harm to others and laugh about it like it's a funny joke...

Yeah that is why someone told the OP that they were going to report them. Clearly it was seen as a harmless action by all.

Sorry is a waste of space and I think in reality the thought that counts does not fly. Trash is trash.

[NekoMataMata]

If someone told you no, did you leave them alone?

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Spreading cheer & goodwill? I wouldn’t mind that… if I know you.

That’s right, I don’t know what strangers’ thinking, unfortunately. Depending on what you meant by ‘interaction’, a simple DM asking permission to do just that wouldn’t get much of a pushback. But if said interaction is something like an abrupt trading/invitation request… please no. Granted, I wouldn’t react with such animosity, but remember that at the moment, it’s an “I don’t know you—you don’t know me”-situation. It’s only right to ask, or better yet, just give a shout (not spam!) letting the zone know where you are & to trade you if they want to.

[Deveryn]

There are 364 other days of the year to show kindness and plenty of other ways to do so. Again, consider the recipients & bystanders and where they might be coming from if they don't respond well. It's better to just let them be and leave things alone. I swear we had one of these threads last year. with me saying the same thing.

[RobynDaBank]

While I wouldn't be the type to snap at you that way, and think that the person acted just a smidge unreasonably, people here suggesting that announcing your want to trade out cookies and such have a sensible take. Either way sorry that you had that happen on Christmas, and I hope you had a nice one nonetheless.

[Jin-]

Yeah that is why someone told the OP that they were going to report them. Clearly it was seen as a harmless action by all.

Sorry is a waste of space and I think in reality the thought that counts does not fly. Trash is trash.

Someone didn't get any presents irl seems like and need to take it on others :/

[Shibi]

This time of year means different things to different people. Not everyone is ready to deal with all that in game, especially on a day where they might have been with family.

Sometimes we just wish our closest family could still be with us and join us.

After losing my sister to breast cancer, I shifted from the "yay xmas" side to the "damn, this time of year is tough" side.

One can put on a brave face. and be nice to strangers, but by gosh, that grief gets tough at this time of year.

(Still no cause for OP's grump to be a grump though - sometimes this community just sucks)

[RobynDaBank]

Sometimes we just wish our closest family could still be with us and join us.

After losing my sister to breast cancer, I shifted from the "yay xmas" side to the "damn, this time of year is tough" side.

One can put on a brave face. and be nice to strangers, but by gosh, that grief gets tough at this time of year.

(Still no cause for OP's grump to be a grump though - sometimes this community just sucks)

Very sorry for your loss Shibi.

[kaynide]

It's all about how/what goes down.


No idea how you go about it, so I'll write out how I do it- it's never gotten me any trouble in the years of doing it.

(How I do it)

Annually, I do a shout to give away the Dream Tunic set in all 3 cities, but I shout only once every 15 min,with a smaller yell every 5..and even then there's a "Sorry for the spam" line.

The shout is 4 lines, explaining what I'm doing and that if people want it to come to me at the Skywatcher and /trade me.. or stand around me jumping and I'll trade you as I can.

I don't move around, I don't aggressively /trade randomly/unsolicited, etc. If people say they already have it I tell them they can regift or sell it if they like, I don't care

After 30m to an hour, I move on to the next city (Depends on the vibe/if people are crowding and having fun/playing music).

I'm not saying my way is THE way, but I am curious what if anything you were doing differently to get an idiot mad at you. Who knows right? Maybe you were just standing in their "designated spot" -_-.