Why are so many people so inconsiderate?

I'm 30, been playing multiplayer games since back in the good old days of text based adventure MUDS... Ya always run across "the know it all's" but it seems like reciently every other person ya meet isn't just a "know it all"
They feel the need to bark orders, and even worse make others feel bad for not being 'as good a player' as they are?

Today my elementalist is having some fun in the arena in Ascalon. Character named Shadamehr Trevenic is constantly barking orders at people on our team. Ok fine ... every team needs a leader. However when you start insulting, placing blaim and degrading people it's not acceptable.

A fella dies, and gets chewed out by this guy. I don't know the age of the fella that died... but from his appologetic response of "I'm sorry" I figure maybe he was younger... Maybe a kid playing this game just to have fun and get away from stress of life for a bit... so now he has to take crap from some self proclaimed "GW know it all".... and spoil his fun...
It's not fair to the kid he tore a strip off of and it's not fair to anyone else that has their lilttle bit of fun ruined by him...

So my new side quest in GW and you should make it yours too...
When you come across one of these pushy, insulting, know it alls...
Make their life hard... make the game as not-fun as they have made it for the rest of the people they have come in contact with.

For a long time I was just ignoring the racial slanders, sexually abusive remarks, and flat out insults... but tired of it...

I payed my money for this game... and have the right to have fun...

Is it just me that is tired of 'those types' of people? or is it cuz i'm getting old and cranky?

The problem is that people have a degree of anonymity on the web not present is real life, therefore act in ways they never would face to face. Instinctively, especially for younger testosterone surging males, is to act out agressively following an inate need to attact mates by appearing the strongest.

The truest thing is that kids will settle you down, it changes your biochemistry some resulting in more parenting and less propogating, although this varies in degree with individual.

Hey, you asked.

Now, as for making others miserable for doing it to you... bad idea. It just spreads like wildfire in the anonymity of the web and will quickly deteriorate any situation.

Picture = 1000 words. Well said.

Yeah, there are always inconsiderate idiots, just like in real life. Here's a list of what I've found so far....

1. "Know it alls", just like the one you described.
2. Quitters who join in a co-op to get the bonus or cap an elite, and just disappear once their own objective has been met.
3. Rushers. Not just people who aggro, but people who say they're ready, then 1/10th of the way through the mission, announce "Oh no! I forgot to bring x"
4. People who take the game too seriously

Now for a list of people that do make the game more bearable.

1. Team leaders who demonstrate, teach, allow other players to work to their best and lead otherwise difficult situations into glorious victories.
2. Experienced people who are happy to take newbies (as in newer players, not to be confused with n00bs) through missions, even if they may have already done said mission a few times.
3. People who let the rest of the party know they have to leave. At least they had the courtesy to do so.
4. PUG teams and people that can have a laugh together. (My PUG on Hell's precipice was one of the best! We got mission, bonus and had loads of fun too!!)

i just stop healing them... lol

I did that to this one necro acting all stupid with me... lol

Yet another reason to allow pk'ing in PVE.

I've had altercations with spammers who I pissed off pretty bad and got called everything in the book but it did not bother me, I continued to expose his scams. People are always acting rude, immature and thoughtless towards others. Which is the reason (though they suck also) I hench if I can't group with people I know.

Funny. I had a Necro Demand I heal his Minons. I do not have a problem with it IF I have the spare juice. But to Demand that I do....screw that.

You know how hard it is to try to Zero in on one of those guys to click on them?

I end up healing someone that doesn't even need it....

And no I am not gonna waste a slot for Heal All either.....

Lucy Screams,"You stupid darkness!!"
"I have heard it is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness," says Linus to Charlie Brown.
"That's true," replies Charlie Brown, "although there will always be those who will disagree with you."

Better to light a candle than curse the darkness...
wise words, Linus Van Pelt, wise words indeed.

Thank you, Hoyt. Best thing I've come across all day.

I've done this from time to time, giving a bad apple a hard time, but it didn't make them less of a bad apple... it just made them focus their aggression at me instead. In the end, it's often much better to be a light of example or simply stand up for, or beside, the ones being abused.

When/if this kind of abusive player fixates their attention on me, I'll usually just apologize to the rest of the group, leave and find another group. Last time I did that on a mission, when I got back to the outpost, all of the other party members were there too and had followed my lead. We put together a new team without the bad apple, and had a lot of fun together.

*sighs* I love Lucy Van Pelt. She's my idol...just crabby enough to make a lot of points and wise enough to sometimes say things like that. Oh and...."AAAUUUGGGHHH I've got DOG GERMS!"

Short Answer: Because they are kids.
Long Answer: Because parents seem to be teaching less manners these days.

The best thing to do with rude people is to simply not be one yourself. Of course, that doesn't mean you can't go to your guild channel and complain about them to your guildmates.

The point exactly (although there are also many older people that behave like kids as Ensign already showed.).

Exactly...it is NOT just the true chronological teens, it is also the emotional teens that lack basic manners.

I will respond to #4 alone, as it ties into your post as a whole entity:

Did missing out on the co-op because of this behavior on their part render that part of the game eternally inaccessible to you at a later time, perhaps with henchmen, or people you regularly group with?

Is it a game, or is it memorex?

I'm always willing to bat for someone who's being bagged out for no reason at all.

Wow, I just posted this mid-day and so many responses already....

ok after readying all the posts... 2 things come to mind.

1.) You all have a lot more patients and wisdom then I do....
2.) Ensign.... that picture... saved it to my hard drive for later use... very very funny and oh sooo true.

Yeah ok, I went back and played after posting here, venting a little bit. In reply to what someone else mentioned here... regarding demanding people as well... thats odd... my second character who's a primary monk... also was in a party with a Necro that 'ordered' me to heal his minions... actually he was a Necro/warrior combo... so of course he figured he could run in with the meat shields and tank... I was actually going to rez him, untill I read "OMG wtf monk... you suck... REZ ME"

.... kids today.... It was soo much better when parents could still legally give a kid a good slap when they deserve it.. It would save strangers from doing it multiple times later on in life.

Heh Wednesday should be PvE PK day That would liven things up a bit