This is such low grade bait out of the 100 other post about the new contract.
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I dont understand. Is this a misjudgment of some kind? I have vague recollection that “bait” can be used in context of trolling.
I said it before, and I will say it again, I do not troll people.
I hate trolling. I hate it more when people assume I am trolling. MORE of the same misjudgements that tick me off!
I got emotional dysregulation and trauma reminders with being misjudged most of my life, either YOU are the troll, or you have genuinely misjudged me like most people tend to do to me.
I know Trolls sneak around in these forums.
I SWEAR I AM NOT A TROLL AND I WISH PPL WOULD STOP ACCUsING ME OF TROLLLING! This is hwy I hesitate to say anyting because too manyt people just will not STOP MISJUDGING ME! AND misjudging me as something I HATE.
I HATE BEING TROLLED!
I HATE GETTING THIS EMOTIONALLY CHARGED TOO.
I have to avoid people for this VERY REASON, THEY UPSET ME OUT OF MY CONTROL! I HAVE TO AVOID PEOPLE FOR MY HEALTH AND SAFETY! PLEASE BLIZZARD DO NOT MAKE ME HAVE TO SOCIALIZE!
MOST PEOPLE UPSET ME SO BADLY I HAVE EMOTIONAL EXPLOSIONS THAT SEND ME OUT OF CONTROL.
I SWEAR!
I NEED TO AVOID MOST PEOPLE!
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You are 100% never required to do this.
Many (most?) players just turn off those channels for perfectly valid reasons. Many players are in the channels but rarely pay attention to them. Many players like to pay attention, but are afk at the time or too busy playing the game to notice. Or many players might be paying attention, want to help, but just not know any helpful answers.
For basically any scenario you try to bring up, there are sooooo many justifiable reasons why someone might be unable to help at that given moment. So just do your best to help out, and maybe your best isn’t even all that helpful but that’s perfectly fine. Maybe you are at your most helpful by just being quiet and focusing on playing your own character to that best your abilities. That is fine and perfectly allowed.
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The Social Contract says I have to, if I accept.
I think you are overthinking this matter.
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I cant “Do my best” without hurting myself. Please believe me, I have gone down the road of doing my best to help people, so much so, and I really should NOT do my best to help. I go down the road of denying my autonomy.
There is no war in Ba Sing Se
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Usually requires comparison to the majority of society’s way of thinking to come up with the measure of “overthinking”. One of many ways I am misjudged, not one of the more severely traumatizing mistakes. Just a common misjudgment in my life.
I’m being real. Literal. And I am trying to avoid clicking accept on a contract that my current understanding is a contract I cannot obey in full without causing myself unhealthy issues which I have experienced before…
It does not say that you HAVE to answer anyone’s questions. It says to do your best to help answer questions.
In that case, doing your best to help out would mean limiting yourself to only helping out in rare cases where you feel comfortable doing so. The Social Contract only asks you to help out at whatever level you are comfortable, even if that means never.
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If I am limiting myself, then I am not “doing my best”
I feel the contract needs to be edited.
If playing the game same as always is going to put you in the ER, I suggest you stop now. You agreed to a very similar Terms of Service statement when you first joined.
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That sounds like a OCD issue actually.
Don’t take the “do your best” so literal, it’s just a saying.
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Of course you can be. Everyone must limit themselves to some degree. There are thousands (millions?) of players out there, no one is capable of helping everyone. We all limit ourselves to our capabilities.
In your case, it sounds like it may be wise to limit yourself to helping only friends/acquaintances whom you are comfortable interacting with. That would still be doing your best.
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If I play the game same, I would be in violation of the contract for failing to say hello or doing my best to help.
My regular way to play is not to talk to most anyone, and solo anything I can, avoiding all the group activities as much as possible.
It’s the group activities that risk being so agitating for me, I will be put past my breaking point.
I am struggling to be in these forums. I had been silent in the forums for years for much the same reasons that has agitated me today in this thread (I get too upset when I am seeing ppl misjudge me and ppl possibly trolling me, I think that was a troll)… but I want to play some WoW without breaking a contract so I am trying to find help to either edit the contract, or someone finds a way to show me how I can get myself to agree to what I still see as a requirement to “do my best” which could push me past my breaking point.
Adrenaline causes me physical pain, and there are events in th is game that can spill the adrenaline into my body, usually when a player tries to rush through a dungeon to make it as fast and let them have the adrenaline they enjoy.
I need to avoid adrenaline rushes. But to do my best, I will have to do things that make my adrenaline flow. I cannot agree to do my best (for many reasons and I am struggling to explain all the details as I am conflicted by the fear of being hated for having walls of text)
Look all we can tell you repeatedly is that this is 100% perfectly fine and does not go against anything written in the Social Contract. You literally do not ever have to help anyone ever, and you will only face consequences for the behaviors listed under “not accepted”.
You should probably contact Blizzard through Support for further clarification.
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I want to limit myself to those friends and people I get along with, but limiting myself will not be “my best”.
My best is unlimited. If I stop myself, I have failed to do my best. I cannot agree to do my best without putting myself at risk of more physical injuries.
If something pushes you past your breaking point, then you’re doing more than your best. Your best is the way you’ve been playing until now. Not your best is messing with other people in a bad way.
Well it’s very unlikely that Blizzard will change anything, but you could contact them directly through support to ask them about it.
If this is genuine then what you probably should do is go talk to a medical professional. This is a level of anxiety/OCD that random people on the internet are wholeheartedly unqualified to deal with.
The best we can do is tell you that everything will be okay.
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No one outside of you knows what your best is anyway, so it would never be possible to enforce.
I don’t really play retail, so I don’t care that much. But when I play wow in general, I’m fairly helpful and respectful, but this social contract is some BS. You can’t make me agree to do my best helping people if I don’t feel like it. Chances are, I do feel like it, but forcing me to hit “Accept” just so I can play, isn’t right.