Quote Originally Posted by 'Malekyth',index.php?page=Thread&postID=141463#pos t141463
Agreed with pretty much everyone. Someone capable of responding that way to such a courteous post is beneath consideration, not worth thinking too much about unless you're shaking your head and smirking while you do it.

It's possible that it wasn't actually meant personally ... I mean, maybe the dude didn't think about his responses but just acted the way he thought he should. I've noticed a lot of that in WoW, where certain stimuli evoke particular canned responses, e.g. complaining about something in /trade begets "QQ MOAR!" as an immediate reflex action. The complaint doesn't matter, the actual substance of the complaint is nothing they intend to think about, they just follow the script established by louder peers and move on. I think a lot of the negative responses to multiboxing are unleashed for the same reason, because the unleasher thinks he's supposed to. This guy might've seen "multibox" and consulted his script: "oh, I need to be incendiary, OK", is all. Or he could have seen "leaving guild" as a similar trigger. Either way, it's possible that it wasn't a truly personal response, so I hope there is no scarring.


10 boxing = pro, imo
Agreed^2
This is very possible, and you deserve 10 boxes of multiboxer cookies for successfully analyzing human psychology on a web forum. The guild leadership, of which he is not quite, were the ones who disliked me the most. They saw my boxing as sort of taking my time away from their goals, I think. They let me do it on my own time, but didn't like me for it. So, this guy probably saw his guild officer buddies bad-mouthing me and decided he'd be the cool guy to repeat their behind-the-scenes trash talk to my face. That's a very likely scenario. Especially since I got some hate tells from officers, too.