It’s difficult to pick out who is legit and who isn’t. I feel it’s natural to have a defaulted level of doubt on things here. Face value is hard to achieve with no faces. You have 15k posts. You’ve been around, you know how many filthy, stinkin’ trolls are around here.
We’ve all seen bait. Hell, I bait all the time. All. The. Time.
I think with some of the whack-jobs that post in an attempt to rile, upset, or simply agitate the forums anyone who’s posted enough to feel familiar here is going to sniff around for legitimacy.
I tend to not care about post count. In this instance where you’re however talking about how long i’ve been, it’s fine to use.
And some of them, love to victimize themselves, while taking things out of context and blowing it out of proportion, all while pretending to be positive, and trivializing things. It sickens me the amount of dishonesty and disingeniousiness these people have. Those who even use mental health to manipulate others.
Some of whom who i even look at fondly of here and even defended them on some points when they are wronged. Now, i just have no quams about that happening because of their true colors.
And looking back, i shouldn’t have defended them. Especially since one of them were behind the discord drama that happened a few years back.
Troll or not, i’m not down for that.
And honestly, i think OP is being pretty legitimate. At least for me, considering my problem and OP’s seem to be similar, minus the whole “they used to be my old friends” thing.
Got to be honest here, shouldn’t the solution to the problem be free (first 2, i see the “Clean bnet friends list suggestion”), and not something that gives up something, even if only for temporary?
This is good advice. There’s a detailed thread from Vrakthris in the CS forums that also states not to get into a debate or argument with the other player. Just put them on ignore and if they keep harassing you, report them.
If you are being harassed to the point of anxiety attacks IRL probably not a good sign and sounds like your mental health isn’t in the best spot. My first advice would be to talk to a professional/doctor about your feelings.
You have a few modes of action ingame
-Race change, name change and server transfer all at the same time
-Just make a new character
-Start reporting them and cross your fingers blizzard does something and considers it harassment to be punished
-Log off/play another more welcoming MMO like FF14 or something
It’s been said above, and I totally agree…
ignore, do NOT respond to them, just pretend they don’t exist.
report them all, put them all on ignore.
the name change, or realm change, or…start a new char. with a diff name…those are all options as well.
bullying is no laughing matter, it’s not a joke, and it’s in no way funny.
This sounds like it comes from someone who doesn’t understand mental illness. You aren’t wrong. A break for the OP is necessary but this is not the way to say it. Don’t be heartless.
If you get panic attacks because bullies caused trauma then seeking help is a solution. But it’s inane to disregard the real damage ‘words on a screen’ can cause after a prolonged time and double so to expect any victim of online bullying to give in to their bullies and stop playing.
