thelittlegumnut
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ive posted a few long replies to threads lately and one of them made me post this thread for some reason...
im wondering whether i should worry about this at all or whether it is something really worth talking about (not that it could change it very much).
Well ive been a bit obsessed with bullying (though i DEFINATELY would NOT call this bullying to the extreme in the example) ever since someone in my state commit suicide over online bullying and school bullying.
No offence to major fans of this genre (including me) but i know for a fact it mostly goes on in FPS's and MMORPG's. Why is it if someone is new to a game that some players feel the need to express dominance over another player (mostly through a mic) by constantly bagging them. Is it because they cant see you? Because there are no real consequences since banning one account can result in just making another but there are no REAL consequences? idk but it does kind of annoy me when i hear a 24 year old bagging on a 13 year old on an MMORPG becuase he is 13?!?! this dude, hes not even trollin. no joke. hes for real like... wow. i mean, our obviously a low individual if you pick on someone more than 10 years younger than you.
Whats anyones opinion on this topic, i know its weird and i feel im partially betraying my community by sort of downplaying it but you know, its getting noticed. non avid gamers are realising these occurences and are probably like wow, why should i play a game with low lifes that bag on 13 year olds... even worse some people agree its right to bag them becuase they went through it!?!?!?! doesnt make sense to me.
again, i am not comparing this to suicide in any way. its just that the incident made me more aware of the so called "cyber-bullying".
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im wondering whether i should worry about this at all or whether it is something really worth talking about (not that it could change it very much).
Well ive been a bit obsessed with bullying (though i DEFINATELY would NOT call this bullying to the extreme in the example) ever since someone in my state commit suicide over online bullying and school bullying.
No offence to major fans of this genre (including me) but i know for a fact it mostly goes on in FPS's and MMORPG's. Why is it if someone is new to a game that some players feel the need to express dominance over another player (mostly through a mic) by constantly bagging them. Is it because they cant see you? Because there are no real consequences since banning one account can result in just making another but there are no REAL consequences? idk but it does kind of annoy me when i hear a 24 year old bagging on a 13 year old on an MMORPG becuase he is 13?!?! this dude, hes not even trollin. no joke. hes for real like... wow. i mean, our obviously a low individual if you pick on someone more than 10 years younger than you.
Whats anyones opinion on this topic, i know its weird and i feel im partially betraying my community by sort of downplaying it but you know, its getting noticed. non avid gamers are realising these occurences and are probably like wow, why should i play a game with low lifes that bag on 13 year olds... even worse some people agree its right to bag them becuase they went through it!?!?!?! doesnt make sense to me.
again, i am not comparing this to suicide in any way. its just that the incident made me more aware of the so called "cyber-bullying".
PLEASE REPLY TO THIS THREAD