Offline ceremonies are traditionally reserved for close friends and family. Generally a more somber occasion. Although more and more now days such things are becoming more like weddings where the best man roasts the dead…
Meanwhile Online ceremonies being what they are traditionally have a rather mixed crowd. Including those who are joksters. If you can’t handle that the ownus is on you.
Ogm,that’s what we need to fight against those words .eek.
The funeral was on a RP server and RP servers have specific rules the OP probably broke.
Possibly I won’t argue that. However the statement we was given in no way really breaks any rules. “Too bad he won’t get to see shadowlands” If that hurts anyone feelings they are part of the problem with society today.
A public online funeral in a game world like WoW will probably get trolled. The organizers should expect it.
Just as the trolls should expect harsh measures in response. If they can’t handle those measures, their troll game must not be that strong, because that’s part of it.
That’s a OOC statement. Especially if he used /s or /y. I doubt he was RP’ing a soothsayer.
In that case the entire funerary practice was an OOC event. The character is still alive. Only the person died.
Okay that makes a bit more sense. I used to play D&D and other pen and paper RPGs but I don’t understand this game’s RP crowd I guess.
“There’s always someone more into it than you.”
Ohh yeah, those RP folks can be real sticklers about OOC stuff. I still think the silence should have been lifted though.
That was something I was going to touch on and deleted. I’d think even talking about a streamer would break RP, but I guess I don’t understand it in this game.
If it was me and I got stuck for being OOC. At an OOC event. I’d report the entire event. As they would be breaking the rule more then I.
And people need to learn to grow a thicker skin, especially in a video game.
You hate arrogant trolls, but the easiest solution is the power of ignoring them. Remember the phrase “Don’t feed the trolls”. The phrase was here since the dawn of the internet.
I have received plenty of verbal abuse in-game, but I don’t need to use the silence feature to justify some poopie mouth’s arrogance. And, if things go too bad, well what I said: use the Ignore button.
Hey that is old Blizzard. New Blizzard changed remember? they support BLM now.
I agree, on what you are say but like i said people get emotional during a funeral they can even in a public setting even online hear something that would up set them and misinterpret the meaning even though that person meant no harm. A joke can be just as damaging .
While those in attendance are usually the immediate family and friends, we’re talking about funerals and not weddings. And it depends on the culture too, if we’re discussing offline events, especially as some families are quite large.
Actually, the onus is not on you and OP getting shut down in 30sec was appropriate as they offended many people, especially as they didn’t respect the crowd and audience hosting the event.
Mixed crowd? Part of being on the internet is being respectful of knowing that your audience could include kids, young and old alike. You don’t have to be crass but be respectful to the person’s family that just died, or in this case, the streamer’s friends or family.
RP servers have specific rules, and those rules were broken.
But you still pay. That’s weird.
oh lord…sorry i mentioned it. Bye guise.
I was gonna riff on what you said there, but you know, better not.
This is why I don’t talk to anyone outside of my guild or bnet friends. It’s the same in OW. I just don’t talk to anyone even on voice chat.
Blizzard has allowed this to happen. They’ve let people be scared to talk to others in their game.
Nah trolls these days like to claim they’re being oppressed and silenced.
It’s a new bit they’re doing.