On toxic and exclusionary behaviour

[Kezrai_Charzai]

@Solecist_Project

Why are you calling people, who play this game the way it’s meant to be played, parasites?

I’m sorry, but I believe you are talking about this comment, in the context of a thread about the effects of non-consensual PvP on game population:

@Kezrai_Charzai

Well you can call it piracy or whatever makes you feel good about it. From a game population perspective, what you actually are is a parasite . Each parasite in the game needs dozens if not hundreds of healthy victims in order to continue leeching resources from them.

You may have missed all the references there to “game population perspective” and “parasite in the game needs victims”, but these are references to the in-game behaviour being discussed and not to the RL person.

I think you then refer to this quote:

@Kezrai_Charzai

And sorry, but if that means your niche of a minority of a segment of parasites goes the way of the dinosaur, then evidence shows that it won’t be much of a loss to EVE at all.

and somehow conflate “If your playstyle vanishes, EVE won’t miss it much”, with a desire for actual people to suffer “extinction”.

These are references to in-game behaviour and in-game playstyles. Now for contrast, this:

@Solecist_Project

You’re a shitty person.

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You’re not a victim, you’re a bad person.

see, that’s what we call an “ad hominem” attack on the person, completely free of any reference to the game or the ideas they are putting forth. This is what happens when you make an enemy in your head of the other person in real life and start assuming all sorts of things about them, rather than addressing game issues.

You should think about focusing more on the actual game, and less on your crusade against the “bad people” who are “destroying the game”.

It also strikes me as quite funny that a person who professes so much interest in non-consensual PvP would turn and demonize another player for

@Solecist_Project

being annoying in general.

Perspective. Game, not life. Real issues, not imagined enemies. They’ll serve your cause better than attacking random strangers on the internet.

Edit: So, I think the ‘community flagging’ thing is really getting out of hand lately, especially since it is anonymous, and especially since some posters have taken to so toxicly, directly attacking other people rather than their points or discussion.

This post was flagged as ‘inappropriate’. It contains no insults, no personal attacks, nothing but direct, clear responses to replies.

If the person(s) hiding behind the anonymous flagging system to quell all comments they don’t like would care to step up and point out what they feel is inappropriate about it, I would be happy to clarify the post.