Bullying on FFXIV

[Jaimie]

The best thing you can do to stop bullies, is to not be a target and NOT GLORIFY BEING THE VICTIM.

go cry some more

come to Balmung I gotz a macro for you
need any help with a AF run ?
muhahahaha

[Huginn]

come to Balmung I gotz a macro for you
need any help with a AF run ?
muhahahaha

I am guessing that is not your main character, since you have only 1 level 50. no one needs help with an AF run since you only need 4 to enter any dungeon. Do a quick check, "need any help with a CC speed run" or "Need any help with Garuda" would have been more appropriate and you could have figured it out with a simple search of the lodestone. that is how i figured out you were posting from a secondary character you created last month.

how about you stop hiding behind your alts and actually post with your main account.

Bullying is a hot topic issue right now, and all of you who have been watching oprah instead of working have had your sensitivity overcharged. You think that any behavior you do not like is "bullying" and you think that it somehow needs to have repercussions that far exceed the crime. The popular anti-bullying campaigns and programs that are distributed in the public schools of the United States actually increase the rate of so called bullying, mainly by glorifying the victim.

The situation is not that someone is being physically harmed, the situation is that they have been pandered to all of their lives and told that they are a special snowflake. now someone tells them that they do not want to help them or be friends, or there is competition for limited resources and the knee-jerk reaction is to call that person a bully, garner support by closed mindedness and non though processes because once you call someone a bully, you have painted a scarlet letter upon them and all of your like minded people who will not think about the situation will automatically join you in your chorus, effectively making you the bully. it is the tyranny of the weak.


also: nom nom nom, this is yummy

[Jaimie]

I am guessing that is not your main character, since you have only 1 level 50. no one needs help with an AF run since you only need 4 to enter any dungeon. Do a quick check, "need any help with a CC speed run" or "Need any help with Garuda" would have been more appropriate and you could have figured it out with a simple search of the lodestone. that is how i figured out you were posting from a secondary character you created last month.

how about you stop hiding behind your alts and actually post with your main account.

Bullying is a hot topic issue right now, and all of you who have been watching oprah instead of working have had your sensitivity overcharged. You think that any behavior you do not like is "bullying" and you think that it somehow needs to have repercussions that far exceed the crime. The popular anti-bullying campaigns and programs that are distributed in the public schools of the United States actually increase the rate of so called bullying, mainly by glorifying the victim.

The situation is not that someone is being physically harmed, the situation is that they have been pandered to all of their lives and told that they are a special snowflake. now someone tells them that they do not want to help them or be friends, or there is competition for limited resources and the knee-jerk reaction is to call that person a bully, garner support by closed mindedness and non though processes because once you call someone a bully, you have painted a scarlet letter upon them and all of your like minded people who will not think about the situation will automatically join you in your chorus, effectively making you the bully. it is the tyranny of the weak.


also: nom nom nom, this is yummy

Lets leave RL bullying out of this for now.

Did I mention that I took a yr off from this POS game, and came back to a different server, to re-learn it.
I was on SELBINA origionaly, then was kidnapped, and taken to Ridil. My main is on Ridil, and I am only on Balmung to re learn the game, and stay away from the retards and religious fanatics on Sargantas.

Anyway, on to the subject of in-game bullying:

I can't comment on the OPs situation, as I do not know the details. Since coming back to the game, the only precieved instances of bullying I have witnessed was a shout in uldah a while back. So let's go with a hypothetical situation for now.

Bob is a healer in a party
party goes to a dungeon
party wipes
Joe who was in party returns to uldah and /sh Bob you fckn NOOB where were my heals
the Joe does /sh welcome to my blacklist NOOB
then Joe tells his LS what a NOOB Bob is
soon most of the server thinks Bob is a bad healer and won't invite him to parties

Comment ?

[Aethelinda]

The best thing you can do to stop bullies, is to not be a target and NOT GLORIFY BEING THE VICTIM.

go cry some more

You are actually acting like one with the "cry some more".

[TrystWildkey]

Does it count as bullying if you're trying to level your 8 cnj and there's a level 50 with l33t gear killing all of the sheep that you're aiming at, ignoring your requests to leave just a small space of sheep so you can level?

[Jynx]

Seriously guys your letting the thread stray too much and giving the people your talking about the attention they are craving. Let sleeping trolls be.

[Ricky]

add to ignore list and forget they exist, you can eliminate any troll in 5 seconds with this quick and easy method!

[Huginn]

Ricky/Azran, we will have to give it up, these are people who would give up their freedom and liberty in exchange for security. The kind of people who think only the police should have weapons. you will never get through to them, they are lost.

they do not want anonymity because "if you have nothing to hide, then you do not need to worry." just ask them if it is OK to hae police walk into their homes at any time, in fact, why have walls at all?

[Futan]

Don’t retaliate. If someone is mean to you online, don’t hit back. It might seem natural to give them a taste of his or her own cruelty, but this will just keep the war going. Not worth it.
Ignore it. Face to face, it can be very hard to “walk away” from an insult. Online, it’s actually much easier. Turn off your computer and walk away. Do not go back to Web sites or chat rooms where you’ve been bullied.

Also we should never let ourselves be a victim but don’t become the bully neither. Don’t post comments or say anything when you are angry because you might become the bully by mistake and that’s not the way neither. At the end they will live by their own reputation. Haters will always hate

This is actually horrible advice. All that will happen is the bullied person will take the anger out on someone else who doesn't deserve it. Thus the cycle continues~

[Gramul]

This is actually horrible advice. All that will happen is the bullied person will take the anger out on someone else who doesn't deserve it. Thus the cycle continues~

Not my problem.
If they're smart they'll ignore him too and it won't be their problem either.
If you don't feed the beast, it will crawl in circles screaming and crying for attention till it withers up and dies, begging for the only twisted love it understands. Then as you oversee its rotting corpse, you can chuckle in quiet glee.