Only time I ever get spit on is from Night Elves and there’s no question as to why they are doing it.
As for the whole store mount thing, you are making a streamer’s day by constantly bringing it up. Don’t feed the trolls.
I am not sure but Blizzard REALLY needs to step up to the plate and stop making it so easy for people to act this way. I mean ontop of there already weak ToS enforcement we have things they put in the game like /spit that lets face it, only is used to upset other people.
The whole ‘grow thicker skin its only a game’ argument really shoots its self in its own foot when you realize yes it is a game and people just dont want to have to deal with an army of nerds harassing them in it. It could be /love spammed over and over and its still the same thing.
And lets face it, /ignore in this games a joke that anyone can get around. Maybe they can start with actually having an ignore system in place that works…
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Players have been using emotes in aggressive and inappropriate ways since emotes were a thing in games. Even going as far as using simple commands like crouch to make obscene gestures, yet some streamer in 2019 is to blame.
I use to go around licking people in cat form on my druid. Now I realize I was probably creepy af though I thought I was being a cute kitty lol.
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LOL. Is THAT why the dude was spitting on me whilst I rode my Mystic Runesaber? Thought it was cause he was Alliance and he was showing that faction pride lol.
Wow … now I just feel kinda bad for him.
If it IS that particular streamer, I’m not surprised. I watched one of his videos. That was enough for a lifetime.
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Let them spit. Just means they can’t swallow.
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When that person organizes a group to do so for the purpose of harassment? Yeah, kinda.
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Theres also all the drama that happened with Fallout 76, its to much to explain but heres a video about it (the whole situation is actually hilarious) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjyeCdd-dl8&t=4s
Im just showing examples of games that got destroyed by MTX or greatly affected by it
Theres also the new situation with Crash Team Racing adding MTX after release, despite that the game is a remaster of a really old game and i believe they said they werent gonna add them (btw that was Activision)
Or also that CoD thing, they just released another Pay to win weapon, for the second time, the first time it took them weeks to nerf it, buy they already had the money of people buying the pay to win weapon, same thing is happening again.(Also Activision)
A streamer is not being blamed for the existence of the emote.
He is being blamed for the targeted use of it against a certain playerbase with the sole intention of making them feel bad about how they use their own money.
He is being blamed for repeatedly asking people to spit on store mount buyers.
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Not sure if this is an appeal to tradition fallacy but just because something has always happend one way does not mean its right or even not an issue.
You cant control how people use emotes in the game.
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Imagine hating people for having more money than you.
You are 100% correct! But you can influence apes to do so for a 15-second face shot on the internet.
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Thats not the reason this whole situation is happening you know?
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What? 
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Agreed.
But we can talk about people riling others up to harass people ingame. I am not asking for a witchhunt, but a discussion on why spitting is needed to be done at all for this particular purpose, and whether it will change anything, other than further increase toxicity and drive a wedge between the playerbase over a simple store mount issue.
This is why I haven’t mentioned the name of any streamers.
Actually you can, this streamer proved that it’s pretty easy.
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This thread will take me a solid week to get all the reports in from the abusive posts here, much like this one.
Let’s extend that line of thought to its logical conclusion. Spitting on someone in game is rude and so organizing a group of people to go around spitting on other players is a dilemma. Killing someone is bad, so organizing a group of players to go around killing other players is an epidemic.
I wasn’t aware of this /spit issue, but I’ll assume its true for the sake of argument. If that’s the case, then he, and anyone who follows along are being childish. But referring to him as the cause of a dilemma is pretty hyperbolic.
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You’re right, if people spit on me irl I will hurt them, but in game?
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