Who are we to change someones thoughts, someones actions? —No one.
Even, when all you said its right, people will continue and continue to defy whats right over whats wrong because its 'fun', and specially because its the internet. Don't take me wrong, but before the internet was nothing... Now, the internet can be as dangerous as real life. And that is what some individuals don't understand... yet.
Have you seen in real life how fans, are brutal and do even the worst for the artist? If they can't physically express it, here in the internet they will verbally do it. Wether, its hate or not they will. And, thinking about it if a celebrity plays certain game, such as MCSG, they will obviously target them. Its something we can't stop. Its the way human nature is.
Internet now a days its a way of life. Discussions, arguments, so on and so on. Now, brilliant, the difference between real life and internet, up to now, is that you can simply ignore it rather than having to face it, face to face. That is brilliant, but again, if people continue to think the internet is a place to joke, to fool others, to harm, to destroy... well, we can already see how this world will become... In fact, the internet is already used as a weapon... A weapon by some countries to hack into other countries systems and deactivate them and then infiltrate. Its also used as a weapon of advertising, which in my opinion, is now even powerful that Television.
And, it can also be your weapon to bullying, to see others suffer for your fun. Which in here enters the category of harassment.
According to the dictionary, harassment means "aggressive pressure or intimidation". Now, basically harassment is someone having fun from the suffer they are causing to some other person. How is harassment done in this community? Depends. In-game or not, verbal harassment is always here. But, the type of harassment most done has to be 'targeting'. Targeting, even when its against the rules, people still defy them and continue. Obviously in the rules says the person must target you several times, but tell me. Who is going to waste their time to actually record each game?
Theres been several ways to diminish targeting, such as the command /disguise. In the past, there used to be /nick, which lets you set your own username It was removed for being abused... Again, abused for 'fun' —they obviously didn't thought others would truly need it. And, MCGamer to prevent this abuse from happening, they came up with the command /disguise. has it stopped any targeting? —Yes it has. It hasn't stopped it completely, due to it not being perfect, as many ways of actually finding out who's the one disguised, but I'm sure MCGamer is already working on it.
The only thing I don't understand is... Why do people have fun from someone else's suffer? Sometimes, I understand people don't realize they are making someone suffer, but I'm rather sure they know in-game when they are making someones time a pain...
In conclusion... Even if we try, if we communicate its not right, it makes others suffer, they will continue to do it. If people were to take internet more seriously they would understand, I bet. But again, mostly they don't take it seriously because they aren't face to face.
