Bullying on FFXIV

[Presbytier]

Blacklist the fool, dude.


Yeah, that ain't gonna fly. Animosity is one of the best and worst parts of the internet. Take it away and people get pissed. Gotta take the good with the bad. Thicken your skin, and deal with the jerks.

No it does not work in reality and it does not work for the internet. Anonymity is hurting the future viability of the internet.

[Presbytier]

Bad idea.

Ever hear the phrase "Not my problem, I don't want to get involved". Say you see someone in game being bullied. What are YOU gonna do ?

Once again someone only looking at a small microcosm of the entire problem. What removing anonymity would do is make people behave as they would in real life(yes i know bullying and what not happens in RL but not to the extant that it does on the internet).

[Jynx]

Once again someone only looking at a small microcosm of the entire problem.

As are you.

Anonymity on the internet has done much good for the world itself. If everyone behaved as they did on the streets we would all be worse for it and often oblivious to the world around us and especially the flaws of ours and other governments.

*edit*

You also seem to think that the lack of Anonymity would make people not "Bully" online, face it people "Bully" with their names known all the time as well making your name known will do little to curb the real issue.

[Huginn]

come to Balmung I gotz a macro for you
need any help with a AF run ?
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I am guessing that is not your main character, since you have only 1 level 50. no one needs help with an AF run since you only need 4 to enter any dungeon. Do a quick check, "need any help with a CC speed run" or "Need any help with Garuda" would have been more appropriate and you could have figured it out with a simple search of the lodestone. that is how i figured out you were posting from a secondary character you created last month.

how about you stop hiding behind your alts and actually post with your main account.

Bullying is a hot topic issue right now, and all of you who have been watching oprah instead of working have had your sensitivity overcharged. You think that any behavior you do not like is "bullying" and you think that it somehow needs to have repercussions that far exceed the crime. The popular anti-bullying campaigns and programs that are distributed in the public schools of the United States actually increase the rate of so called bullying, mainly by glorifying the victim.

The situation is not that someone is being physically harmed, the situation is that they have been pandered to all of their lives and told that they are a special snowflake. now someone tells them that they do not want to help them or be friends, or there is competition for limited resources and the knee-jerk reaction is to call that person a bully, garner support by closed mindedness and non though processes because once you call someone a bully, you have painted a scarlet letter upon them and all of your like minded people who will not think about the situation will automatically join you in your chorus, effectively making you the bully. it is the tyranny of the weak.


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[strallaalaa]

No it does not work in reality and it does not work for the internet. Anonymity is hurting the future viability of the internet.

your the reason why the internet will soon enough be policed and locked down for all to use freely. can't ignore them? your just as angry as they are then. what you want people going to jail or getting tickets on the net for doing and saying the wrong things like speeding tickets? it's like micro chipping our selves for the 1percent that go missing. it ain't gonna go good cause both sides of this fence.

bullying wrong but so is pitchforks against them. 1 alpha male is no different then 20 non alpha's running a muck. don't try to replace the world with meme's like u'rself. ignoring doesn't work then do something about it, don't ruin something as simple as a game for your own thoughts of right and wrong.

for all we know since she wasn't part of the bullying that it could of been misunderstanding, i've heard some borderline retarded convo's in my linkshells that sound like bullying but they just back and forth like that for fun. it's not for everyone, surely not me, but being able to get people banned or anything like that for it is over the top. blacklist and have a good day.

also everything huggin said is on the nose.

[Ricky]

No it does not work in reality and it does not work for the internet. Anonymity is hurting the future viability of the internet.

You're wrong, sorry. In reality if you add a person to your blacklist you never see their messages again, you just don't want to and would rather have an INTERNET CYBER POLICE FORCE get revenge on them for you... have some will power and ignore them then move on with your life

[Huginn]

Ricky/Azran, we will have to give it up, these are people who would give up their freedom and liberty in exchange for security. The kind of people who think only the police should have weapons. you will never get through to them, they are lost.

they do not want anonymity because "if you have nothing to hide, then you do not need to worry." just ask them if it is OK to hae police walk into their homes at any time, in fact, why have walls at all?

[Gramul]

No it does not work in reality and it does not work for the internet. Anonymity is hurting the future viability of the internet.

Nonsense.
I've been able to currently take on 7 completely different persona because of it, expanding my understanding without fear of being shut out from presumption. And never have I made a character dedicated to upsetting people.

Don't let a few bad apples spoil the orchard, throw them out when you come to them and move on.

[Jaimie]

As are you.

Anonymity on the internet has done much good for the world itself. If everyone behaved as they did on the streets we would all be worse for it and often oblivious to the world around us and especially the flaws of ours and other governments.

*edit*

You also seem to think that the lack of Anonymity would make people not "Bully" online, face it people "Bully" with their names known all the time as well making your name known will do little to curb the real issue.

OMFG we agree on something <wahoo>

Do the people who walk on the wrong side of the street annoy you like they annoy me? Stick to the right people, it aint that hard.

And those texters (or w/e they call themselves), every other day, one stands in front of me at the traffic lights, waiting for the light to turn green so we can walk across. There they are, texting on the bb oriphone, light changes, they keep on texting. Sometimes, I wanna just nudge them. lol

[Futan]

Don’t retaliate. If someone is mean to you online, don’t hit back. It might seem natural to give them a taste of his or her own cruelty, but this will just keep the war going. Not worth it.
Ignore it. Face to face, it can be very hard to “walk away” from an insult. Online, it’s actually much easier. Turn off your computer and walk away. Do not go back to Web sites or chat rooms where you’ve been bullied.

Also we should never let ourselves be a victim but don’t become the bully neither. Don’t post comments or say anything when you are angry because you might become the bully by mistake and that’s not the way neither. At the end they will live by their own reputation. Haters will always hate

This is actually horrible advice. All that will happen is the bullied person will take the anger out on someone else who doesn't deserve it. Thus the cycle continues~