Discussion on the <Blacklist> function

[Arillyn]

[B]
Prejudice-
Unfortunately, players do not trust each other. The game gleefullly provides their own NPCs for us to ‘trust’ instead. Vibrant and talented is the playerbase, but it is not integrated into the game well. Everything ‘community’ has to go through SE, while in-game mechanics are not particularly encouraging of inter-player community activity. ****
The failure to develop multiple social spheres, attempting to take everything into the game but failing (because immersion), then resulting in ‘push aside’ ways to deal with it such as ‘blacklist’.
Players wont develop a maturity without first be allowed to separate their social sphere from the in-game activity sphere. And in the impossibility of that, to separate the in-game social sphere into multiple thresholds. {*}
There has to be places, time, activities, which simply allow players to trust, or for some reprieve/partition from volatile influence. Currently this is almost nigh impossible, nigh inexistent, and not positive.

I may be misinterpreting this, I apologize if I am. But what I am getting from this is that in general the playerbase doesn't trust each other and we just blacklist people instead of trying to understand each other. That we need to be social in the game and work together. If I am interpreting this correctly I have to say that this game is very social. I have a very social FC and several ls's that I am in, and we do work together. We have a lot of fun together in the game. I also have fun with randoms that in the game too, if they feel like talking. Many don't though and sometimes I don't feel like talking to a bunch of randoms either if I'm just trying to get a roulette done. Being social in this game is on you (general you again) to find "your people". I don't have the desire nor responsibility to be social with people who are hostile and those are the people I put on my blacklist. As I stated before, I think I have maybe 5 people on my blacklist from all the years I have been playing this game. If you are on my blacklist you earned it.

I'm not sure where all the concern is coming from for the feelings of those who have been blacklisted. In most cases, those places on blacklists have been earned. I bet i'm on the blacklist of those who are on my blacklist. My feelings aren't hurt. Not everyone is going to get along in this game just like not everyone is going to get along irl. It's a valuable lesson to learn not to waste your precious time (relaxation time at that) with people that you just don't get along with.