The Code of Conduct
Today you will read an article that is highly different from all my other articles. This is not because I have lost interest in the actual game or that I think I am unable to support you with fresh looks on the state of the game we all like to play. This article is all about the players playing the game and how the players act in our small scale and large scale communities.
I already hear people think, oh… here comes The_Dutch_Prince with his psycho babble and to be honest these people aren’t mistaken. I will talk about the common code of conduct between players and real life communities and compare them to the players in Yu-Gi-Oh.
Now before I start with my point of view regarding on how people act in communication programs over the internet and even on forums, I will let those who are not familiar with these people give some insight into the most favorite word/phrase choices of these people. So here they come:
1. Gay/fag/Homo
2. Fuck
3. Shit
4. U mad bro?
5. Sexual content ( this is forbidden on this forum, therefore I won’t use the phrases people use)
6. Noob/nab/nub whatever
7. Smd ( sexual content, but I guess most of you can guess what it is )
8. Family insults
In my opinion when people use these phrases, meant as a joke or not, are already showing incompetence by using such phrases. A rather simple example; You walk down the street from school/work to home and a guy runs into you and says “Hey man, you’re a noob dude, smd”. What would be your response. Now I guess the more civilized people among you would say; “good for you, now be gone”, and ignore the guy. I myself would probably hit the guy senseless for his disrespectful attitude, and I know there are a lot of people that would the exact same thing. Now why do we see this on a regular bases over the internet and on communication programs. Simple said, because we cannot see each other.
Now the most important thing here is why would these people use such phrases. My conclusion is because these people want to be cool, since they probably have been the kid that got bullied in school and actually do not have the guts to stand up for themselves in real life. This itself is something sad in my opinion, obviously that kids get bullied on in school or anywhere for that matter, but also that these kids are copying the behavior they hate. So why are they doing it again, oh…yea to act cool and actually to think they are cool. Well let me tell you the difference between being cool and acting cool; You are cool when you can ignore people like that and remain doing the stuff you like to do ( while not hurting other people feelings ). When you are acting cool, you do the exact opposite. But some of these people are not doing it for this reason, some of the people that are using phrases like I mentioned above are actually trying to stand out, since they once again haven’t been able to realize that in their real lives and what better way is there to stand out than to act differently. Seeing this “strategy” worked great for the first few people doing this, other people have been copying this behavior again and thus you have more people like that.
A thing that amazes the most is that most of the people I have been addressing to in this article are actually youngsters ( note that I wrote youngsters and NOT gangsters lol ). Why does that amaze me, well let me tell you something. As long as these youngsters can behave like that online ( while online life slowly but surely gains more interest and impact in and on their normal lives ) they will slowly but surely act this way in their normal lives as well. What the end result of that would be isn’t pretty I can tell you that much.
I’m not saying you shouldn’t have fun while being on the internet or playing a game or even just chatting with people in a community communication program, but making jokes or trolls like these aren’t funny at all, since they have serious consequences. I know people are going to say; “You’re one to talk, you troll people sometimes just like the rest of us”. Shamefully enough I have to admit that, thus the more reason to something about it. I mean, if someone like myself would be dragged into such behavior where does it end.
People are losing the common respect for authority and rules/laws. We have seen this happen in KCVDS ( people cheating a game in which we can only win some reputation ). If these people are transforming into cheating machine’s where will it stop, in online life or will they keep on pushing the borders of our online communities and slowly hit the real life communities with their so called innocent crimes.
With this I would like to rest my case, hopefully some of you will understand what I mean.
The_Dutch_Prince.
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