How would you handle this situation with mean spirited mentors?

[Ama_Hamada]

And akaneakki, and Ama, I am glad you guys like my posts I am no saint though :x I get into my arguments on here once in awhile although I do always try to be civil about it so I am glad my efforts have been working. Some people just say some really rude things on here and I just feel the need to tell them to stop it ><]

That is the key part, I try as well but for some reason it is not good enough in some places. I feel the boards here are generally unwelcoming to me, love to twist my words and stories around to attack me further. I do not know what to do anymore I am in up and arms.

[akaneakki]

[QUOTE=Miste;4136457]PS. Thank you akaneakki, Ama Hamada, and SenorPatty for the help with explaining and the support. /QUOTE]
NP!People I know got banned on the forum, because they actually stood againt's those who said things like ''who cares, let them play however they want'' ''elitist asshole etc'' simply because they wanted to give help to new people or older players who needed a kick on their butt. You see it everywhere on the forum and you also see it quite a lot in the game sadly.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

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you might as well be asking for the moon delivered to you on a silver platter.
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No thank you...

Already had Dalmud delivered and I was not happy with that experience!

[Misutoraru]

Then we'd be left with around 10% of player population. Everyone loses their shit now and again. But if you decide to get a title and a symbol to show that you are willing to help then it automatically implies that you have the patience for teaching players and getting them through. Including teaching them how to behave and have patience/understanding themselves.

Definition of mentor: a trusted counselor or guide

when I place my crown symbol on, it is not something to show off or to get bonus of any sort

it is a commitment of patient, of kind, of not boast, of not arrogant. not dishonor others, not easily angered, always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres

this is what a mentor should be, and we need a system to remove mentor status of the bad blood

[Korihu]

They shouldn't have added such huge rewards to mentor system if they wanted people to be a mentor for the sake of helping people and not just for a giant pegasus. I'm guilty of being one of those people who became a mentor only so I can get the mount, though I do not try to be mean (though some people take any criticism as being a bully [don't tell me to do my positionals or to click my combo]).

[LineageRazor]

They shouldn't have added such huge rewards to mentor system if they wanted people to be a mentor for the sake of helping people and not just for a giant pegasus. I'm guilty of being one of those people who became a mentor only so I can get the mount, though I do not try to be mean (though some people take any criticism as being a bully [don't tell me to do my positionals or to click my combo]).

Unfortunately, adding the mount worked spectacularly in one regard, so I doubt SE will ever consider it to be a failure: It filled party slots. Yes, it filled party slots with some pretty terrible mentors a lot of the time, but it filled them - and in most cases, those mentors, bad or not, DID carry the instance to completion. This did terrible, terrible things to the reputations of mentors as a whole, but it WORKED. Even excluding Ex Primals (which many bad mentors will simply bail on outright since the odds of failure are unpleasantly high), there are a LOT of instances that are covered by Mentor Roulette, but not (or insufficiently) by other roulettes. By adding a reward with real value to Mentor Roulette, it attracted a LOT of folks to become mentors to do those roulettes. If I had to guess, I'd say that initial implementation of the Mentor system did not provide as big a boost to these rarely-run instances as SE had hoped, so they added a carrot.

I wish they'd done this another way. Maybe added a "Grab Bag Roulette" outside of the mentor system and put the Pegasus there. Unfortunately, it is what it is.

[Reaperking386]

I wear my mentor crown so I can show the sprouts on what kind of community we are. I want more people to join FF14, not scare them away. Any mentor who would act like that would be kick and if not kicked reported for harassment,hostile language, and abusing the vote abandon button.