Can We Stop Dogpiling, Please?

[Ruin Mage]

It should be said that some of the people - if not most/all - that the thread was made to tell 'stop it' will not read this thread or will think its not about them / will ignore the message.

[Snarky]

4 minutes ago, Shadeknight said:

It should be said that some of the people - if not most/all - that the thread was made to tell 'stop it' will not read this thread or will think its not about them / will ignore the message.

I had to read it a couple times before (i think?) it is not about me.  But it is still early morning and the caffeine has not fully cut the fog of war yet

[UltraAlt]

13 hours ago, GraspingVileTerror said:

If a particular poster annoys you, please consider using the Ignore feature.

I really don't like advocating for this . . . but between that and having to see posts of -pointless- aggression targeting a single individual poster over trivial banality . . . I'm afraid I have to promote the Ignore option.

 

Life is too short not to use the ignore button in some cases.

I perhaps use it to liberally, but I don't have to deal with people that I feel are behaving badly.

 

9 hours ago, Solarverse said:

I refuse to believe that people can be trolls. I simply think that some people truly are just that stupid.  😄

 

First time I went to a chat room on netscape about work related business with colleagues, one guy immediately jumped to the keyboard and begin typing in the most obnoxious stuff possible to annoy everyone else intentionally and then got into a word battle with them... on the company account.

Yes. Trolls do exist.

The guy was giggling happily as he was  intentionally annoying other people ... on the company account.

The guy is pretty much a jerk in real life as well.

Other people were laughing along with him because we as an alpha bully type.

I'm just sitting there thinking how bad it was making the company look but not being out number in the situation.

Oddly enough (or is that "obviously for good reason"?), the company held no more group access to the internet with the company account to discuss business related ideas with people in the same field.

 

 

[Kriiden]

For once, I'm glad I have no idea what's going on.

Being socially inept/unaware has it's downsides, but I guess it has it's upsides too...

[Aurora_Girl]

Where is it documented that our average age is 40-70? 70?! Really? 

[TheZag]

52 minutes ago, Snarky said:

I had to read it a couple times before (i think?) it is not about me.  But it is still early morning and the caffeine has not fully cut the fog of war yet

 

Im pretty sure its not about you.  You deliver the snark but not in a mean way.

[Bionic_Flea]

You say dogpile like it's a bad thing.

 

I see dogpile and think "all-you-can-eat buffet"  YUM!

 

[Coyotedancer]

Whenever VT starts wagging disapproving tentacles at people, I pretty much automatically assume that I'm one of the troublemakers. 'Goes way back to the early days of the RP chat channel. 😆

 

Also... Eyeing that buffet, I find myself wondering what in the world those little round things on the left... the ones with the fluffy tops,,, are.

Call it my culinary Need-To-Know. 

[The_Warpact]

1 hour ago, Aurora_Girl said:

Where is it documented that our average age is 40-70? 70?! Really? 

Oh yeah there was a thread awhile back that was age related. I found out me being 50 wasn't sh!t compared to some folks.

[Coyotedancer]

Just now, The_Warpact said:

Oh yeah there was a thread awhile back that was age related. I found out me being 50 wasn't sh!t compared to some folks.

 

There are a *lot* of us who are 40- or 50-somethings. 

[The_Warpact]

Just now, Coyotedancer said:

 

There are a *lot* of us who are 40- or 50-somethings. 

Yeah, I was just shocked at some of the others who were higher than us. But, I think that age bracket is probably the bulk of the population. 

[Ironblade]

1 hour ago, Aurora_Girl said:

Where is it documented that our average age is 40-70? 70?! Really? 

I'm not aware of it being literally 'documented'.  However, back when the game was live someone did a study and it WAS documented that our average player age was around 35.  That was back around 2007.  So an average around here in the 45-50 range would seem likely.

[The_Warpact]

Here's the thread that talked about ages of the player base.

 

 

[GATE-keeper]

12 minutes ago, Ironblade said:

I'm not aware of it being literally 'documented'.  However, back when the game was live someone did a study and it WAS documented that our average player age was around 35.  That was back around 2007.  So an average around here in the 45-50 range would seem likely.

Woot! Finally, something I'm above average at!

[TheZag]

Of the 30 or so players that i do trials with regularly im only aware of 2 in their 20s several in their 30s but more then half are 40+

[Snarky]

My SG os mostly older.  A few older than me. There are a couple “young folks” including players who played on their parents acct on live and are now playing as adults

[Sophronisba]

3 minutes ago, Snarky said:

My SG os mostly older.  A few older than me. There are a couple “young folks” including players who played on their parents acct on live and are now playing as adults

All three of my kids used to design characters sitting on my lap and now all of them have accounts of their own.

[Glacier Peak]

24 minutes ago, Sophronisba said:

All three of my kids used to design characters sitting on my lap and now all of them have accounts of their own.

This is awesome! My sister got me in to the game back in 2004, it's a real great gateway in to comic book and super hero movie culture for the young adults too, with parents permission of course. Heck I even create characters with my wife sometimes. Good times!

[Aurora_Girl]

Like...I started in college and I'm now 36, I had no idea I'm such a youngin. Guess I'll limit my use of "ok, boomer" to avoid possible heart issues for y'all. 😏

[arcane]

I was very intentional for a good while about trying to give this poster the benefit of the doubt and plenty of encouragement, because it was abundantly obvious that a little game knowledge and experience is all they needed.

 

I also reached out privately via forum PM’s to offer in game help or teaming.

 

Really not my problem that they’ve pissed off a number of users whilst ignoring all my attempts to help. If the optics look like a dogpile, well it looks like that’s likely their own damn fault.

 

What we do know from experience thus far.. is that it’s now kind of a stretch to suggest this poster genuinely wants help.

Edited November 5, 2021 by arcane

[The_Warpact]

28 minutes ago, Aurora_Girl said:

Like...I started in college and I'm now 36, I had no idea I'm such a youngin. Guess I'll limit my use of "ok, boomer" to avoid possible heart issues for y'all. 😏

Actually it would be Gen X for the majority of us.

[Aurora_Girl]

Just now, The_Warpact said:

Actually it would be Gen X for the majority of us.

 

As an elder millennial, I can embrace this idea. 

[The_Warpact]

Just now, Aurora_Girl said:

 

As an elder millennial, I can embrace this idea. 

Good lord, don't admit that you're a millennial to the boomers! 😄

[Hyperstrike]

2 hours ago, Coyotedancer said:

 

There are a *lot* of us who are 40- or 50-somethings. 

Unlike me.  I've been 29 for the last 19 years!

[Coyotedancer]

40 minutes ago, The_Warpact said:

Actually it would be Gen X for the majority of us.

 

Yep... But pretty much everyone younger than us tends to forget that Gen X even exists. We're older than them, so "Oh look! Boomers!" 😝