Abusing the Trade feature to interrupt, etc

[Darki]

I understand your point that it is below us, but like others said, putting yourself on busy makes you unable to communicate with certain friends. Basically what you are saying is everyone should just run around with /busy on and play like this is a single player game...when it is a MMO. So to some people putting up /busy will not make it so you can go back to enjoying the game...since you know some people have friends that they like to talk to.

Also I am unsure about what you mean about "waiting" for a response from a GM...you do not have to just sit there and wait you can do whatever you want. GM's can even send /tells to you while you are in an instance.

So instead of making everyone run around with /busy on all the time, maybe it is better to promote that this behaviour is not acceptable, cause it's not lol

Not all the time. Just during sensitive times like gathering and map farming for example. No point in having up during times that trolls can't get to you.

In my experience, GMs take a good while to respond. If they are faster with you then I guess you lucked out.

[Mogi]

So Darki what your saying is work around the trolls time? hide from them and let them do what they want yea if this world was like that i guess hackers and ppl who rob others never be in jail the fact is GMs are the cops of our lil world and we need to report ppl doing bad things as this is the only way the game will grow. I'm not saying the kids or trolls need a ban forever but a few days to a week may clean stuff up

[Darki]

So Darki what your saying is work around the trolls time? hide from them and let them do what they want yea if this world was like that i guess hackers and ppl who rob others never be in jail the fact is GMs are the cops of our lil world and we need to report ppl doing bad things as this is the only way the game will grow. I'm not saying the kids or trolls need a ban forever but a few days to a week may clean stuff up

Authorities (GMs) are for when preventive measures have failed. If you didn't even make the attempt to take preventive measures then sorry it's partly your fault. Like they say in the Boy's and Girl's Scouts: "Be Prepared."

Guard yourself so you don't have to run to the GMs so much. The game developers have even given us many tools to keep trolls out of our gameplay. The vote kick, blacklist, /busy and coming soon to patch 2.35: the ability to kick trolls out of the FC regardless if they have a private room or not, and updated mechanics to Hunts and Frontline. These are all great tools that work well when people actually use them.

But you want to ignore the fact that these tools exist and run to the GM every time someone disturbs your gameplay? I think you want to be trade trolled so you have an excuse to play victim. There is no other explanation.
Support prevention. Not retaliation.

Oh and your getting robed analogy? Let me paint you a picture:

Police: "So Ms. Bank Manager, you say you were robed?"
Mannager: "Yes and I want the robber caught this instant!"
Police: "Ok lets look at the safe so we can check for clues"
Manager "A safe? We don't have one. We trusted people to only take what is in their accounts."
Police "...um...ok what about security camera footage?"
Manager: "We don't have a camera system ether"
Police: "You mean to tell me you didn't take any preventive measures to safeguard the money?"
Manager: "Hey! Don't lecture me on how to run my bank! It is your job to catch this hooligan!"
Police: "Ma'am, we will put out an A.P.B on the thief but you should at least attempt to guard your client's money so that it wouldn't be taken by someone with just their bare hands."

[Waeksyn]

But you want to ignore the fact that these tools exist and run to the GM every time someone disturbs your gameplay? I think you want to be trade trolled so you have an excuse to play victim. There is no other explanation."

Thank you for illustrating my point. Let's all blame the victim!

[Mogi]

I think you want to be trade trolled so you have an excuse to play victim. There is no other explanation.
Support prevention. Not retaliation.

Lol So i want to be a victim because i feel trolls need to be dealt with accordingly? i'm starting to think your trolling now :P

[Darki]

Lol So i want to be a victim because i feel trolls need to be dealt with accordingly? i'm starting to think your trolling now :P

Late to the party? No matter, i'll catch you up to speed. Long story short, people seem to think that I was implying that GMs be taken completely out of the equation. If I gave that impression then I apologize. It is likely that people are aware of the preventive measures and I assumed people didn't want to use them. From my perspective, that is what it looked like. My stance is that both should be used. Preventive measures as a first resort, then GMs if they are needed.