Building a Strong Community

[Daragust]

5 posts. Didn't read.

Ah prime example. This is akin to saying "I don't care about community and I don't care so much that I refused to read your thread AND I had to tell you I didn't."

Now on topic:

Community is built in the world just as much as it is built in the interactions in Duty Finder. I have been pleasantly surprised by how helpful shout in most lower level zones has been. Not only requests information, but requests for help seem to be respected and well answered. It is the responsibility of every gamer to show respect to others. If you aren't interested in dealing with random people, find a closed group with whom you can be elitist or keep your attitude in check. If you don't want to make that run with the under geared newbie, it is on you to deal with the situation in a responsible manner. You can choose to not do the run or even ask the person to leave given you do so politely.
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[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.