White Knights / White Knighters / White Knighting - Good for the game or community?

[Troo]

It's a hard thing to police in a game filled with heroes.

 

Definition:

: one that comes to the rescue of another

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/white knight

 

..but in forum/game/social context:

"White knighting is when an individual joins an argument with the thinly veiled intention of making themselves look good or in hopes of courting favor."

 

Psychology Today: Are you a "white knight?"

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-white-knight-syndrome/200905/white-knight-commonalities

 

Slang: White Knighting

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=white knighting

 

I've likely done it (hypocrisy disclaimer) but some are vastly more prolific than others.

Maybe someone has some tips on avoiding being one or examples of despicable white knightage.

 

 

[Bill Z Bubba]

<shrug>

 

/oh noes, Bill posted again! Surely the end times are upon us!

[ChzBoi]

....really wish BillZ would stop being so mean to poor Troo......... 🙂

[Snarky]

oh yeah.  I'm a "white knight"  Just come over to my crypt....errr place, and I will show you all the people I have saved.

[Ironblade]

To be fair, I think we see a lot more CLAIMS of 'white knighting' than the actual thing.

When some people are having difficulty defending their position in an argument, they often resort to attacking the other person and calling them a white knight is one type of attack.

[Luminara]

5 hours ago, Troo said:

..but in forum/game/social context:

"White knighting is when an individual joins an argument with the thinly veiled intention of making themselves look good or in hopes of courting favor."

 

If it's only for appearance's sake, wouldn't it be stucco knighting?

[Biff Pow]

People get weird on gaming forums, that's how they became a top place to radicalize young men. It's not that serious, just be cool.

[Yomo Kimyata]

2 hours ago, Luminara said:

 

If it's only for appearance's sake, wouldn't it be stucco knighting?

 

Everybody was stucco knighting.  Those cats were fast as lightning.

[Chronicler J]

Oh! Oh! I wanna be king of the city daycare!

[Snarky]

52 minutes ago, Chronicler J said:

Oh! Oh! I wanna be king of the city daycare!

I have often thought we need to re-vamp Paragon social programs….

[kito]

Why would you want to police it?  

 

If there coming in to "save" someone who just can't articulate there point and just manage to properly give you the information is there a problem there?  

 

 

White knighting is when an individual joins an argument with the thinly veiled intention of making themselves look good or in hopes of courting favor.  

 Also must be nice to know why outher people join arguments. 

[Techwright]

2 hours ago, Snarky said:

I have often thought we need to re-vamp Paragon social programs….

You're saying they were already vamp'ed?  🤔  Well, I guess you would know.

[twozerofoxtrot]

13 hours ago, Troo said:

Snipped. Hewn, sundered even.

 

This was a very high quality shitpost. 

 

8.5/10

[biostem]

Is this the appropriate place to tip fedoras to the m'ladies?

[Snarky]

4 minutes ago, biostem said:

Is this the appropriate place to tip fedoras to the m'ladies?

Nope. There’s a port o potty beside the hamburger grill.  Tip fedoras there

 

Glad to be able to help.  Guess that makes me one if those white knights

[Scarlet Shocker]

I feel like I should somehow work in a reference to the Moody Blues here, but I'm trying to refrain

[tidge]

21 hours ago, Yomo Kimyata said:

 

Everybody was stucco knighting.  Those cats were fast as lightning.

 

 

It is as if someone brought a knight to a fun fight.

[Arc-Mage]

On 4/16/2023 at 12:34 PM, Troo said:

It's a hard thing to police in a game filled with heroes.

 

Definition:

: one that comes to the rescue of another

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/white knight

 

..but in forum/game/social context:

"White knighting is when an individual joins an argument with the thinly veiled intention of making themselves look good or in hopes of courting favor."

 

Psychology Today: Are you a "white knight?"

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-white-knight-syndrome/200905/white-knight-commonalities

 

Slang: White Knighting

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=white knighting

 

I've likely done it (hypocrisy disclaimer) but some are vastly more prolific than others.

Maybe someone has some tips on avoiding being one or examples of despicable white knightage.

 

 

This has got to be a joke? This is a joke? 
 

This is a joke.

[Yomo Kimyata]

Leave Britney alone!

[Luminara]

11 minutes ago, Yomo Kimyata said:

Leave Britney alone!

 

You're the moneybags, you leave her a loan.

[High_Beam]

White Castle Knights > White Knights

[Black Zot]

Ni!

[Solarverse]

3 minutes ago, Black Zot said:

Ni!

 

Not the Knight who say Ni! These are the SARS Knights who say Covid 19! (That actually rhymes.)

[Glacier Peak]

On 4/16/2023 at 7:16 PM, Yomo Kimyata said:

Everybody was stucco knighting.  Those cats were fast as lightning.

This was a zinger!!! I laughed out loud 🤣 

[Snarky]