The problem with the mentor system

[SoranRigel]

It doesn't generate bullying and toxicity. These are things that exist with or without the system. It isn't the cause of it.

Not every player additionally puts a check mark under the item "be a model of correct game behavior". Mentors do this.
And mentors, unfortunately, show such game (and non-game) behavior that is not worth tolerating.

Toxicity exists in two cases:
1. There are those who are ready to use it.
2. There are those who are willing to tolerate it.

Don't consider me arrogant, but my gaming experience allows me to compare different gaming systems. In those games where no awards are relied upon to help newbies, I have seen much less toxicity. I can assume that authority, albeit expressed in symbols - an exclusive mount, achievements, a pixel crown, a honorary title "mentor" - has a negative impact on young immature minds.

The authority corrupt and gives a perceived sense of impunity, especially when there is a tacit indulgence of the existing order in the gaming community.

As has been repeatedly mentioned here, the absence of special awards or pixel crown in no way prevents the provision of assistance to newbies. But the aggressive resistance of those for whom this pixel crown is extremely important speaks eloquently for itself.

Help must be selfless. If this is not so, we get what we get: aggressive, toxic and not helping players who compensate for their own inferiority at the expense of others.