I was referring to this Uwuk character. Considering that they use the same race and customisation I used while I was on the Horde, it’s clear that these likes are meant to either provoke or troll me for some reason.
Needless to say, it’s awkward and it’s making me feel uncomfortable, so I hope that whoever they are they’ll stop doing that.
Edit: Now they like my post with another low level tauren death knight with similar customisation. I would kindly ask that you stop, whoever you are. I know it’s a hobby to some to make others uncomfortable, but surely you’ve enough maturity to realize that it’s wrong?
Yeah, I liked after your edit just for lols. I do that a lot on these forums.
Spreading/balancing likes here and there.
About those two Tauren likes, don’t think you can stop someone from liking your posts.
Ignore the users might work. At least you won’t be notified if they like your posts
That’s one of the reasons I popped my head in the forums again recently.
I hopped back on my alliance character with my wife to play with some friends and we joined their pretty casual guild and have been having fun. Lots of those players are relatively new, some just joined the game, some have only played extremely casually for a few years, and some have played for a while but are trying new things like raiding and M+.
We’ve been raiding with them for three weeks now, and inevitably people seem to get discouraged by the way the game is spoken about. I would usually just tell people to avoid comment sections and seek out the youtubers that don’t live to farm negativity bias attention and engagement. I stayed away from the forums until the expansion announcement.
There were probably 20 of us in discord, watching the reveal, and every single person was excited and happy watching it. The more experienced crowd like my wife and I loved seeing the moves away from borrowed power, the focus on exploration, the new talents and crafting, and the new players were just generally excited for a new expansion.
The next morning the discord was full of people just talking about how bummed out everyone seemed to be, how angry people were about dragon-riding, how upset people were with the new race. People were generally getting the impression from these forums and wowhead comments that people were planning on quitting the game. The negativity really seemed to taint the entire reveal for them. People went to the forums expecting to talk about all of the stuff they’re looking forward to, and instead they show up to a never-ceasing waterfall of negativity.
It seeps into the game, into guilds, into chats, into dungeons, it’s everywhere. I tanked an LFR for them last night and the entire raid was talking about quitting over dragon riding.
After 12 years of not flying at the start of an expansion we get massive zones and a cool new exploration based movement system for a couple of patches maybe and the spiral of hatred for everything WoW made it into the game and made people feel like crap.
Sadly, these forums are an echo-chamber for that sort of thing.
Don’t get me wrong, I think there are things Blizzard could always improve upon (and they would say that themselves) and people do need to speak up about these things to ensure it gets the attention it needs. Blizzard do need to listen more to the player-base at an earlier stage rather than adapting things in the second or third patch of an expansion.
That said, however, the forums do discourage those who are genuinely happy with everything that was announced and/or waiting for further info before making a definitive decision. People are intimidated by those who post all the time and adopt an ultra-aggressive mentality where they believe their opinion matters more than someone else’s (and will get all their forum friends to flag other people’s opinions out-of-sight irrespective of whether it breaches the Code of Conduct or not!).
The forums are definitely something that has to be taken in moderation (and be moderated!). Spend too much time here and they’ll drag you down to their level.
You have to watch out for stalkers who believe there actions are better than others and constantly whine how bad people are yet feel no remorse of there own actions.
I agree, I also think the echo-chamber nature means that people get so obsessed with the current thing to get mad at that good criticism gets lost.
I remember so much good discussion in BfA about essences and azerite and what worked and what really didn’t and how it could be turned into something hated in to something loved but all of that discourse got washed away in the hate vortexes surrounding borrowed power.
Hi Daestra - you’re doing the very thing you accused me of the other day. If you wish to occupy the moral high ground, best just to ignore my posts rather than post bitter remarks.
Indeed!
I contributed to quite a few of the BfA rants at the time but the hindsight of Shadowlands has definitely opened my eyes more! I would go back to BfA over this any day!
I enjoyed reading your earlier post and hope you stick around.
Lets face if we are talking people being moderated your actions yesterday could have got you a vaction when you accused another player of lying and you were rude.
So yes it goes both ways.
Yet again, I offer my apologies for anything that has been taken in a bad way from me (veiled comments or otherwise) and hope we can move on from it. If we cannot move on in a respectful way then ignorance is best as these repartees help no one. There’s enough negativity on these forums without us contributing to it further.
I am not to judge how targeted you are being but keep in mind that you don’t “own” a certain mog / race / class combination. There have been other players using the same mog or a similar name of mine… it’s not necessarily targeted at you, though I obviously don’t know about your specific case.
Oh I’m aware. I’ve seen two tauren death knights with my transmog yesterday in Acherus, so it appears to be a popular combo. So I’m not quite sure why this person keeps trolling me. Hopefully they’ll stop now that I’ve made it clear that it makes me uncomfortable.
So you are saying you see lots of people like that around, what makes you think they are trolling you and not just having the same (sorry but, rather death-knight-generic) taste as yours?
The timing seems rather suspicious. They’ve first replied to me after our little conversation in another thread some days ago, and they’ve been liking my posts here and there ever since.
I’m trying not to judge but it honestly doesn’t look targeted to me. Maybe it’s just someone liking your posts as some sort of high-five for the same / similar mog? I’ve done that in past to others
That’s also possible of course. Though judging by what I’ve seen on these forums thus far, I can’t help but be at least slightly skeptical. I certainly hope that it’s as you say, because I’m certain that you’ll agree that I’ve been a rather polite and mild-mannered poster thus far.
Only partially, because telling people to stop using a race / class / transmog combination in a game with as limited customization options as wow is not acceptable to me. However, I can’t judge how I’d feel if I was in a situation where a lot of people shared the same mog as mine. I’d probably just change it because I felt too common, rather than complain about it on the forums. But I guess we’re all different.
i mentioned no names hmmm i wonder who else said that…