Quote Originally Posted by Ceridwenae View Post
What culture is that?

So, your intent is to have a good time and laughs for everyone. What happens when you pick someone who doesn't sign up to your school of good times? Are you and yours the arbiters of all good times, everyone has to adhere to what you've decided and damn them if they don't? Who gave you that power? Would you do it in the streets to just anyone? Perhaps you and your friends are a group of guys and you pick on a lone woman in the street, how does it look? Just because you don't see what's behind a toon in game, do you seriously think it's different? Do you or did you ever consider how the recipient of your attention feels or felt about it? Do you understand how, even in just one occasion, it can be construed or even misconstrued if you prefer as harassment regardless of your intent? I mean, did you openly say to your target "Hey, there! This isn't harassment. We're all just going to follow you around and emote or whatever at you for the next half hour. Don't take it personally! It's just fun!", so they know you're just following them for some weird kicks? Or do you really think that it's unimportant how other people feel, only your fun is paramount? Do or did you consider that the people you selected for this fun may only have said it was fun too because there was a group of you and they may have felt pressured?

Your intent is one thing, but it's also how it looks to the subject of your high jinks which should be of importance. Given it would seem you picked people you didn't know, how could you possibly know how they'd react? Would you even apologise if they were upset by it, or are you going to keep falling back on to them being thin of skin so it's all on them and there's no reason for you to pause, reflect and perhaps take some nuance into at least some consideration?

I mean, I know that's a ton of questions, and feel free to write it off as Answers on a Postcard, but I'm genuinely curious to see what your response is. I really don't want you to feel you have to answer everything or that I'm needling you, but consider this as my brand of fun (finding out what makes people tick). Sorry if it's a bit much!

But really, no one is saying don't have fun, or don't do things because bad stuff will always happen - clearly that's not true! - but if your fun comes at the expense of another person you don't even know, you've really got some hard explaining to do about yourself, and you may find yourself crossing lines you weren't aware existed.

Whether you choose to respond again on not is up to you, but thanks for replying initially all the same, and I sincerely wish you a great rest of your day/evening/whatever it is where you are.
It was just how it was. Things happened. Wanna go storm an enemy main city during the next hour? Let's shout in the city chat and get 40+ people to go. No raid group no nothing. Random war like engagement over the most random point of interests on the map? A-yup. Random conga lines in Ogrimmar? You bet! You see, it was just what happened in the hubs. Same thing as the chat randomly spamming [Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker]. If someone didn't want to lead the clown fiesta that ensued, they usually outran us with a mount or zoned somewhere else or some other stuff but some took it in stride and just led this amazing mob of players just spamming some random emote. You knew if someone made the train sounds (there's a choo-choo emote/sound bite that's spammable), you best believe the whole hub was gonna spam that for a solid 10-15 minutes. Hell leading one of those was how I found out about them as when I started playing, I didn't hang around the main cities much as I was levelling 99% of the time so it was a fun surprise.

We didn't know they'd react, the plan was to emote till they did but we usually got bored and moved on if they didn't. Yes some people asked questions but it'd usually be like "why?" "idk we're bored dude" "lol k". Back then people we doing the most random shenanigans just because. Didn't need organization, didn't need planning, didn't need more than 5 people. We just went and we had a blast doing so. I guess it's just an aspect of the genre that died as the players became more diverse and more sensitive.

Also to the person that said it floods chat, I think performance music is awful 95% of the time and you don't see me complaining. Just like for the emote text, there's a nifty lil option to disable that. Go figure that one out.