Marking bad players needs to stop

[SoraLuna]

you know you can just take the marker off right?

About that...



That guy kept doing it the whole alliance raid. My party was responding back by removing the marker, but they did not stop.

[Boblawblah]

About that...



That guy kept doing it the whole alliance raid. My party was responding back by removing the marker, but they did not stop.

Well, luckily, that's a pretty clear case for the GMs, I hope you all reported that person.

[SannaR]

Isn't the triangle the "safety dorito" and not the dunce cap?

That's how it is on Aether. The only time I tend to see the ignore target is when someone has been ignoring raises most of a run. Or continues to eat every single aoe to the point everyone in the raid has noticed even without the marker.

[NekoMataMata]

Join Date Nov 2023
Posts 1

Someone was bored I guess.

[Kitkat]

There are a couple take aways from this that you can do:


1. This can technically reach the definition of harassment based on how the TOS is worded as it is similar to blasting x player name and calling them a bad player. Report it, move on.


2. Seems this happens very infrequently since you say you've played since HW which means you've been around for roughly 7 years give or take (HW released in 2015) and it has only happened twice. I get that for someone with social anxiety that can feel pretty bad, up there with being labeled, but in the grand scheme of things if I take into account that most players on average put in about 2 hours/day that means you've possibly run into this twice out of ~5,000 hours of play (low end). I'm fairly sure you've been flipped off, honked at, or labeled more in day to day encounters for seemingly no reason at all. I would equate this to someone going out of their way to cause strife for seemingly benign reasons rather than a firm labeling you as a bad player.

[EdwinChucklenuts]

If they mark you, might as well troll back. Show 'em what a bad player looks like, aye?

[Montgraves]

I don't want to be bad. I'm trying my best. I practice my rotation. I look up guides. I only do normal content. But sometimes I'm just...bad.

I've been playing since HW and this has only happened to me twice, but it's so incredibly rude and humiliating to literally put a sign on someone during a dungeon or an alliance raid of all things.

We all have off days, that's fine. "Oops" in chat and move on.

But if this has only happened to you twice in 8 years, it's really not a problem and nothing to complain about.

I get it; it's humiliating to you, but I can guarantee you no one else in the raid (outside of the person who did it) even remembers or even really cared. I've seen this happen a few times, usually to people who were straight up trolling in Alliance; deliberately running into AoEs and whatnot, and you know what I thought when I saw it?

"Heh, they got marked."

And then proceeded to not give it a second thought because I'm focused more on playing the game than watching some marker run around the map.

At the end of the day, the only person being tortured about this is you, and only you have the power to stop it. Forgive and forget; not because the person deserves forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.

[TaleraRistain]

Isn't the triangle the "safety dorito" and not the dunce cap?

Both. Someone applying it to themself is usually a danger dorito or when someone isn't dying and there are new folks. I've seen people put it on someone who keeps dying and keep re-applying it when they took it off. It's childish.

[george357]

trolls come and go in game and in forums i have played this game a long time and when i started i sucked at it but over time i got better and thank all those vets that help me to become better and for those self asorbed trolls i left them in the dirt where they belong and i now help others as i was helped in the past.

[EgilTheStressedMage]

About that...



That guy kept doing it the whole alliance raid. My party was responding back by removing the marker, but they did not stop.

That is the closest they’ll ever get to success in their life. Guarantee this person causes wipe after wipe after wipe in braindead content.