Black Listing A Lot Lately...

[jojobritt911]

Lately, it seems like I find myself having to black list more and more recently than I have done in my years of playing... Of course I am not black listing players willy-nilly, I am talking about the huge number of bots and veteran players being unreasonably rude to newer players (like, please don't do mentor roulette if you don't want to deal with synced content with sprouts).
Anyone else facing similar dilemma of nearly maxing out your black-list or already maxed out?

[Vahlnir]

I'm struggling to see where this epidemic of rude players is taking place. Seriously. lol Something's not quite right...

[Bsrking5]

I could fill a black list multiple times on just bots in a single day. Its not wort blacklisting them. As for players, it takes a lot for me to blacklist any given player. I haven't in a long while. And i run mentor roulette a lot... So either you are black list happy or filling it with bots, from my experience anyways.

[Limecat]

I long-since stopped trying to keep gil seller bots blacklisted, it's a losing battle. These days, my list is mostly made up of people that spam FC/ERP advertisements in /sh.

[Rinhi]

I'm struggling to see where this epidemic of rude players is taking place.

they have always been there?

[Vahlnir]

they have always been there?

Right, but there's not a sudden surge of them taking place. They've always been around, but they've always been a minority of the game's population. That hasn't changed.

[Snorky]

I haven't run into one player I have had to blacklist in 3 months I am just not seeing the rude player influx

[nebby00]

I personally only blacklisted a grand total of... one person my whole time of playing for two years, a mentor to be specific. I usually don't put people on blacklists unless I absolutely have to. Most of my interactions with others have been nice, and I usually just report bots on sight rather than fill up my blacklist like that. If I do encounter a truly awful person in the future they will go on the blacklist, but that isn't likely since I tend to give people chances rather than immediately kick them into the blacklist unless they cross a line, or irritate me with a pet peeve.

You probably have been just unlucky, since the majority of people in game have been pretty chill and nice.

[Jin-]

Played since 2014 Q1 and never had to blacklist anyone and my skin is pretty thin.

[Penthea]

Right, but there's not a sudden surge of them taking place. They've always been around, but they've always been a minority of the game's population. That hasn't changed.

Yea I really wonder about some of those who say there has been a noticeable jump in toxicity in the game recently. Where is it? I have not seen it at all. Pretty often I see people say "it's them WoW players ruining the game!" and after months of reading comments relating to this I have yet to see a noticeable negative change in player interactions in the game. The only noticeable changes I have seen is the amount of players hanging out in cities and login queues.

Sure sometimes people can be unlucky and can end up just meeting a lot of meanspirited people due to no fault of their own. But some others who I met in the past who had similar complaints turned out to be the problem themselves. I'm not putting OP in either basket because I frankly do not know them. Though after having a quick glance through their post history I am inclined to think they're just having a patch of bad luck.