Peace out messageboarders... it's apparent to me that there's more cliques here than I care to deal with. I was able to tolerate it up until now. However, there is one major click here with normally, rational thinking, and I have no problems with them... until now I guess. Errr rather, they have a problem with me.
In another thread, a poster decided to name a player that was harrassing her rather than post a story about how she had been harrassed. This was not a story detailing the incidents or giving step by step in the scenario... instead it was a summarized: "This player sexually harrassed me and a GM wouldn't do anything about it."
Knowing mentioned player, I found it hard to believe the story could be as bad as poster made it out to be. The fact the GM did nothing only supports this belief as well. However, this is not my issue, or their issue with me rather. No, the issue is I said "players who play female characters should more or less expect to be harrassed at one point or another." and added that one should not make too big of a deal out of it as it is all text. I guess that some people just can't distinguish game from reality and assume that any actions on said player's character is not an action on the character, but inturn an action on the player him/herself. Sorry, but until there's a way to see who or what (gender) is controlling a character in game, there's no way to see what gender said player is.
Because of this, when people hit on or harrass Krem or Nebz, I lol and brush it off as some lonely individual in his mom's basement trying to score with pixilated ****. I don't know why blist wasn't an option... however, I voiced my opinion nonetheless. My opinion was misconstrued and delivered incorrectly... people flammed up and talked down to me. I began taking rate downs as well.
I can take rate downs if you disagree with something I said in one of my posts... and in that case, only that post should be rated down. However, noticing ALL my posts being rated down, I decided to test the class of this elitist clique by posting links to other posts I had made which were completely irrelevant to the topic at hand... sadly, as I expected, those were trolled to hell..
Therefore, I've lost my faith here, no longer feel welcome here and only see depictive, demeaning groups and cliques. This used to be a site where I could meet some cool people, but apparently by voicing my opinion to ONE person, I go to battle with that person's entire clique... and I don't need it.
Troll this thread, then go troll your life. For those that get bent up by stating the fact that women are more likely to be hit on and/or harrassed than males... don't take things soo seriously... for those that can't deal with a player ingame by simply blisting them... don't make the game your life...
I'm done here, and maybe done on FFXI as well, time will tell that one tho. For those that I leave behind here, I'll miss you... for those whom pushed me into my descision...
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