Now I've seen it all...someone offended for offering to help them?

[Nanga]

It seems like you were badgering him from the start, just simply because he walked into the zone with low level gear... You're probably glamorizing the way you were harassing him (or at least babying him), and you didn't actually "offer help," either. Eh, guess that's how I'd interpret getting drilled with questions like that from the start. Maybe you were a kind, gentle soul as you're presenting yourself on the OP, but I guess I'm not convinced.

I'm not following really. What's in it for me to change what was said? I didn't put any names out there except for my own, so I wasn't trying to publicly humiliate anyone - unless you're saying I wanted to humiliate myself, in which case, according to what you say, I succeeded? So I say again, I have nothing to gain from trying to glamorize anything, and everything to lose from it. I think it's probably best to just take it at face value and realize you were given a word-for-word exchange.

Something else I've read here that I'm not fully aware of, I suppose, is maybe the social or cultural differences that require "mad dog" treatment before offering help. By this I mean, before offering to genuinely help someone, you must first approach them as though they are a rabid, mangy, wild dog, with blood dripping from its mouth and a half-eaten human arm laying at its feet. This dog is also bleeding from one leg and needs help or it will die. If one does not pay specially close attention to using a sing-songy voice, gentle and cuddly words, and slow petting strokes while offering a cuddly squeaky toy before attempting to help the dog, that person should expect to be attacked and bitten by the dog which is only protecting itself.

I would think as advanced, intelligent human beings who use simple words that have simple meaning, we do not need to treat each other as a "mad dog" before trying to help them. We just merely need to ask if they are new, which answers the question to if they need help.

Of course, being a solely English-speaking player on the Japanese server group, many of us have learned to just use the very simplest of words and questions to convey a thought, question, or expression, in cases of the language barrier preventing us from communicating. Had I treated the other player as potentially hostile, not only would I feel like I was treating them like a mad dog, but the effort could very likely be lost in translation altogether. The in-game auto-translator does not convey complex thoughts that express a positive "feeling" when asking a question. It just simply asks the question straight up. Is this where people are confused into thinking not enough effort was given to convey a positive feeling behind the first question? Food for thought, folks.