Building a Strong Community

[Khalette]

I think it will be interesting to see how SE handles the diversity of humans.

I have done 17 duties. 2 of them had a tank that tanked more than one mob. I've had tanks afk in the very beginning multiple times, and I've had the great experience of kiting 2-3 mobs around like a restarts so my healer has a chance to live. It's very frustrating, but after waiting 2 hours, it's the cats that were dealt. Long story short, it's hard to control how people handle frustrating situations.

[Daragust]

I deal with bad players on a regular basis. I've been known to rage at my monitor when individuals in my party won't listen. Just because I am upset or angry it doesn't mean that venom needs to be throw back out at the world. Half the time the other person doesn't know better, the other half they just don't care. Instruct when you can, otherwise remove yourself or the other from the situation, but do so in a way that will maintain respect on all sides.

[SeleneVenizelos]

As I said on your blog post, the problem with Duty Finder is the anonymity it affords people when they interact with players from various servers. In situations where people would have become pariahs on their servers people who behaved in the manner you describe generally didn't get things done once they had a notorious reputation.

With Duty Finder, however, the servers will always find them somebody to partner up with; people who probably don't know them and don't know what they're like. Even if they did, what choice do they have? Rightly, Square Enix have made it impossible to blacklist or block anyone in anyway in the Duty Finder. Such power would be greatly abused; but it means people who are jerks repeatedly find themselves being involved with people when before they wouldn't. In this way Duty Finder is a catalyst for people who have the tendency in them to be disrespectful, not listen to advice, so forth, so forth.