Griefing - A Discussion

[Ashe]

Who's the one griefing? I see Magewich and DPS Zil.

My opinion of that picture is that a group of people who weren't taking things seriously decided to have a goof off night, probably drinking, and were playing nonviable specs for the lols of it, just as much as the other team was with their Sunfire Cape builds. Then, rather than laugh at the absurdity of it and exchange a good natured laugh, they get serious face, puff up like they actually just "TOTALLY PWNED AND OBLITERATED THOSE NOOBS" (as if they worked for it) and say "gg fags". I don't really view that as the type of attitude I enjoy.

For the record, I have nothing really against generic trolling. I differentiate that from griefing in that trolling is basically an attempt to verbally get under your skin for the sake of a reaction, no matter what type of reaction, just to get acknowledge. Sometimes its fun to go into a WoW chat room and just ask a question that you know people are tired of answering, like how here we are weeks after the portals were removed from Dalaran and people will go "WTF WHERE ARE THE PORTALS? STUPID BLIZZ GG". No matter how many times you've seen this, you have to really try to fight the urge to respond with "READ THE PATCH NOTES FFS." I don't mind someone reverse trolling at all, such as killing that guy who's been gloating about owning your team all game and going "LUCKY MOFO" everytime he dies and making a comment of "Oh man, I got really lucky there, I was so worried that you wouldn't do something stupid and play that badly, but lucky me, you luckily did. How lucky I am." I don't mind the "roleplay" style trolling where people start just tossing some trash back and forth and then "gg, had fun" at the end of the game.

Not a fan of "u fking black nigger go off urself noob" the entire game and at the end of it when everyone says gg, this guy goes "fking raped u nigger faggots, uninstall nubs" and then leaves game immediately. Call me thin skinned all you want (and I fully admit it - I don't have thick skin for this sort of thing, which is why I avoid pugging in any game and don't like to play certain roles for team games unless I have friends involved) but I WILL report the guy of this example.