• Why are gamers awful to each other? The psychology of online abuse
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I think the math equation normal person+Internet+anonymity=asshole fits right in.
[QUOTE=Aphtonites;49657416]the only real hatred and abuse i've seen are in mobas and competitive games where people are fixated on doing the same thing again and again regular gamers and gamers who just play singleplayer games are pretty chill (most of the time)[/QUOTE] Well duh if your only interactions are with AI of course you are not going to shittalk to others because you do not shittalk to bots in singleplayer. Absolutely any MULTIplayer interaction will have assholes and toxic behaviour.
The real question is, why are people awful to each other.
[QUOTE=TheJoey;49657344]"online bullying" nigga, screen, look away, etc. there are popular big youtubers that go to psychiatrists for this kind of shit. like shitty youtube comments actually affect them and their day-to-day processes. maybe this is what everyone needs if theyre so concerned over getting bullied on the internet.[/QUOTE] Come back and say that after someone actually bullies you online. Not the stupid "fuck you noob" in chat or whatever it is those types say now a days, but someone who follows you around online with the intent of harassing you every day for months. Or perhaps that wouldn't bother you because you're willing to walk away from all of your digital accounts, though that seems unlikely.
[QUOTE=DaMastez;49663946]Come back and say that after someone actually bullies you online. Not the stupid "fuck you noob" in chat or whatever it is those types say now a days, but someone who follows you around online with the intent of harassing you every day for months. Or perhaps that wouldn't bother you because you're willing to walk away from all of your digital accounts, though that seems unlikely.[/QUOTE] Just block them and report lmao
[QUOTE=villa;49663628]The real question is, why are people awful to each other.[/QUOTE] A string of bad decisions and poor misinterpretations make people heartless.
[QUOTE=villa;49663628]The real question is, why are people awful to each other.[/QUOTE] "oh hey there's a fellow anonymous person acting in a way I don't like and I had a shit day, time to vent for that..." Disable voice chat, ignore text chat and grief those fuckers instead, embrace their salt, life off it instead of getting saltier over them spewing it out in the first place. Show them that they picked the wrong fucker to be a asshole to.
[QUOTE=Van-man;49664835]"oh hey there's a fellow anonymous person acting in a way I don't like and I had a shit day, time to vent for that..." Disable voice chat, ignore text chat and grief those fuckers instead, embrace their salt, life off it instead of getting saltier over them spewing it out in the first place. Show them that they picked the wrong fucker to be a asshole to.[/QUOTE] if you do that, now youve just another asshole. youre not better than them if you stoop to their level. youre just one more angry person on the internet, which we have plenty enough of as it is.
You can't be punched through a computer screen.
[QUOTE=benbb;49678737]You can't be punched through a computer screen.[/QUOTE] You wanna test me?
[QUOTE=TheJoey;49657344]"online bullying" nigga, screen, look away, etc. there are popular big youtubers that go to psychiatrists for this kind of shit. like shitty youtube comments actually affect them and their day-to-day processes. maybe this is what everyone needs if theyre so concerned over getting bullied on the internet.[/QUOTE] If they didn't affect them, why would they be seeing a fucking psychiatrist?
It's as simple as the fact that 90% of the time nothing can be/is done to you for being an asshole to someone, aswell as the fact that most of the time you don't know the person directly.
People get mad at MOBAs in particular because they're very tense competitive games that can take anywhere between 20 and 60 minutes. They're games that require you to cooperate with people you don't know, with limited communication skills, and usually thick language barriers on top of it. Honestly outside of team-based competitive games like CSGO, Dota and League of Legends I barely see toxicity among players. Even in places like fighting games tournaments you barely see anyone who's full-on toxic because it's a 1v1 scenario where you can only blame yourself if you lose (unless you're an especially salty manchild like DSP who blames literally everyone else, but that's rare). You do see a lot of friendly trashtalking and such, but no real aggressiveness.
Being an asshole in online games is both fun and a tactic.
Well, it's a lot easier being a dick to someone whose real name and face you don't know and can't see. That said there's a difference between banter and daily e-mail harassment and such.
I think we may awful to each other because a part of our genes, genes that go back thousands of years and beyond, may want us to be hostile to each other, to survive. [editline]7th February 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=Jojje;49689271]Well, it's a lot easier being a dick to someone whose real name and face you don't know and can't see. That said there's a difference between banter and daily e-mail harassment and such.[/QUOTE] A-ha, that's a very interesting point tbh. If you don't know someone's name and can't see their face, it's much easier to even kill them which is kind of a dick move, like an enemy combatant.
[QUOTE=AaronM202;49689215]Being an asshole in online games is both fun and a tactic.[/QUOTE] Get them salty enough so they can't stay focused and they become a easy target. Banter, along with lowbrow tactics is fun to employ against those who get legitimately mad at others in games. Because it just emphasizes they should get their mad ass in check or they'll continue losing and becoming madder.
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