It bothers me as well, though I know I shouldn’t let it get to me. Let’s face it, people are extremely restricted in regard to how they can communicate with each other during a game, yet many people seem to do everything they can to communicate their toxicity nonetheless. It’s not so much that my feelings are hurt. It’s more a matter of it being depressing that such a high percentage of people can be that petty. Of course, if someone is toxic, it only affects your life extremely briefly, while the toxic person has to live with their own toxicity 24/7. So, in reality, people are really hurting themselves more than others, but that doesn’t make it any less sad, or perhaps makes it even more sad, considering that so many people aren’t capable of understanding that being a nice person is ultimately more rewarding than causing others distress.
I also wish that streamers and YouTubers would be mature enough to use their ‘influence’ to try to help people realize some of this. That’s the problem with the Internet, toxic personalities can have so much more of an impact than in real life, and people tend to behave like the people around them. Without positive influences, people tend to imitate the negative, if that’s what they’re surrounded with. I don’t know how realistic it is to expect people to provide this type of positive influence, but it seems like a better option than everyone just accepting the prevalence of negative behavior. Again, it’s not because my feelings are hurt, but because life is short and people should work at making it better, not worse.
I accept friend requests because getting flamed by some salty kid is the best kind of /popcorn moment imo 
Bad Manners. It’s more than that though, really. Usually intentional interactions that are intended to frustrate, irritate, or otherwise demean your opponent.
I will keep bming toxic decks and you can’t do anything to stop it 
Well played.
(202020)
You must have played me
I talked with a guy after a match one time. We became friends, than out of the blue 8 months later he sent me a $200 blizz gift card.
It pays to be nice sometimes haha.
We only have emotes to communicate in game and this is just a game. I hope most people play it for fun. Except for people who spam emotes and rope every single turn, I try to give people the benefit of the doubt and assume they aren’t doing stuff deliberately to upset me.
I remember a couple other threads though that this made me remember. In one the OP was triggered by opponents hovering over his player frame and the other by players emoting a single greeting at the start of a game. Only possible explanations for these actions were sinister in nature of course.
Honestly, what’s childish is complaining about something that you have the power to not let bother you. If you don’t want to have someone emote at you, there’s this really great feature called Squelch.
I use this when my opponent goes on an emote frenzy. It usually does not bother me when they do, but on rare occasions it can irritate me and I simply squelch them.
So take some of your own advise and just put a stop to it.
Nah BM all the Priest and Rogues and emote Thank you.
BM all the players named “arisen” and emote thank you, got it.
“yOu onLy WuN cUz u gOt lUcKeee!”
All that I can say is…thank u! well played! :v
It is useless arguing with kids about bad manners. It is a futile exercise.
Childish? I care more about how people treat each other than about a silly card game. Does that make me childish? Thinking that ignoring a problem is the mature option is a problem in itself. If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem, as they say. I don’t expect everyone in the world to treat each other with respect, but toxicity in the gaming community is more than something that you should simply ignore. It bothers me every time a caster refers to BM like it’s a cute social phenomenon. Actually, it represents an extremely backwards social culture and substantial unhappiness. I know it’s a more of a symptom than a cause, so, sure, it’s not something to get angry at, but it is something that should be addressed, just like any other pernicious symptom. That nobody seems to understand this or acknowledge it is baffling to me. That such a large amount of a community could not only have no concept of sportsmanship, but actually gain pleasure by causing unhappiness in others, is pretty horrible when you stop and think about it. I don’t mean to get too analytical here, but there must be a reason, for example, why 40% of young people feel that their lives are useless and they have no meaningful future ahead of them. I’ve long thought that the Internet is a big part of the problem, since that’s where young people are taught that you gain superiority by denigrating others… but that belief, and the actions that result from it, are ultimately hollow, and lead, I believe, to depression. So, when someone BMs me, maybe I’ll get a little annoyed, but I also feel as though I’m watching someone develop really pernicious habits that will not only mess up their lives but will also be very hard to outgrow if they’re not careful. And this is why I feel that BM, along with other psychological issues, should be addressed in the gaming community, rather than ignored.
This is textbook victim blaming. “Oh it’s your fault for getting offended by the actions someone took to offend you.” The issue isn’t me getting offended, it’s that someone was intentionally trying to be offensive. You can’t uno-reverse this. Why can’t they have the self-control to not be toxic? The root of the issue is their behavior, not anyone’s response to it.
If someone walks up and punches you in the face, it wouldn’t be reasonable for someone to tell you, “Oh just don’t get hit. Don’t let that punch bother you.”
I am all for people treating others with respect and dignity. However, there comes a point when one needs to take a step back and ask themselves… “Why am I letting an emote bother me?”.
Toxicity is unfortunately something that is a problem in the gaming community, and while companies like Blizzard will say that everyone should be treated with respect and all that, they actually do very little to back up their words written in their TOS.
Half the people on this forum believe that if someone say’s Well played at the end of the match , they consider that BM. Then there are others that don’t, such as myself. I consider it good manners, just like when a soccer match ends, the player shake hands and say gg.
This isn’t Overwatch where you can actually hear your teammate over voice chat being toxic towards you, or having members being toxic in chat. This is Hearthstone, where there are emote voice lines that are created by the developers for players to use. If you don’t like them, and get tilted when someone uses’s them, then simply squelch them. Like you said… this is a “silly card game”.
Why waste your energy getting upset when someone emotes at you, regardless if they are clearly BMing. What purpose does it serve you to get upset about it? It really comes down to you allowing it to bother you. There are always going to be Douche bags. I get it, not everyone has tough skin, but this is hearthstone, play some overwatch and you’ll eventually come across some pretty toxic players that will call you every name in the book in voice chat, but again, there are steps that you can take to address the issues without letting it get to you. When you let it bother you, you are giving them what they want.
There are so many other things in life to get upset about. This a card game. If someone is getting tiltled from players bming in hearthstone, then you might want to ask yourself why you are getting upset. I use to get tilted with ropers, now I don’t care. I just start doing other things while I wait for my turn.
People need to pick their battles in life, and if a player has an issue with someone emoting at them… the easy fix, Squelch them.
like if you’re on the phone and someone starts yelling at you… what are you going to do… sit there and listen to them treat you like garbage? Probably not, I bet you’d probably just hang up.
First off, this is Hearthstone. A card game. If someone is going to walk up to you on the street an punch you in the face that is an entirely different thing, that is assault and is illegal. SO you are comparing oranges to apples.
When someone gets tilted because someone say’s “well played” at the end of match when they lose, unless they added that person and asked them if they were intentionally bming them, they are making the assumption that they were.
If you don’t want someone to emote at you, Squelch them. That why you don’t have to get upset when they might simply be saying GG. I say well played at the end of my matches, even the ones I lose.
When someone is doing wrong then you are toxic for not saying something. That is the biggest problem is toxic people enabling other toxic people.