You say this while still limiting the people who can participate in events that involve you. Nevermind that you deny my personal participation which is understandable, but you pick and choose who is "cool" and who isn't.
Jihad Joe was a terrible example of this as well for as long as I knew him which wasn't much but certainly after 2008. He'd go mad after losing and log an admin ship with admin cannons to kill everyone involved. "Utterly insensitive, cruel, dismissive, agressive, nasty, childish -and- condecending" are all things I could have used to describe him and his behaviour.
Being a nasty ass to one another is fine. Most communities hold much worse grudges and behave far far worse than anything you'll see in discovery other than cap players messing with snub fights. The real problem is that people can create their bubbles in this game and be nigh untouchable in them, with tools at their disposal to make sure they can't be messed with while being able to mess with others themselves. If you see people you don't like in snubs fighting eachother, log a cap and barge in, but if the snub sees cap players he doesn't like, he can't do anything by going in. If I'm on a snub and a snub that's hostile logs, I tell my friend to log a cau VIII missile gunboat, and dock if I ever come close to losing.
You can't set grudges in this game, at least not anymore, because the people in power, those being admins or devs (it's the same) have always viewed situations from the "griefed" perspective. They'd rather have a situation where a person doesn't feel the frustration of dying rather than the satisfaction of winning, which is madness in a space shooter. If you lose, dock. If you think you can't win, dock. If you don't want to fight, dock. If you see a certain name in new players, log off. That's the behaviour that has been encouraged for years.
Get some thick skin and man up. This is a space shooter. If someone's mean to you you go kill them or die trying. That's how it should be.
(06-19-2016, 12:06 PM)Mao Wrote: inb4 Sirius gets renamed to XTF.