Guild Wars 2

A couple of days ago, I had some discussion with several people, and eventually one guy snapped as he constantly disagreed with some of us. We told him to calm down and to not worry so much… and he misunderstood and just went ballistic. Welcome to the internet, eh! It happens, we all know how that goes… text doesn’t always convert feelings properly, less so if the person at hand has apparently had a bad day or two.

It resulted in this person blocking me and several others as we tried to calm him, but never once did he pause his slur of insults from behind the safety of his “this player is currently not online.” wall. To all of us. He event sent mails: mails we could not reply to due to the, “This player has blocked you.” message.

This feels unfair. This feels unnecessary. If a person wishes to block anyone – be it permanent or until he/she feels they can handle the other again – then so be it. But it shouldn’t automatically force the opposing party having to block them in return, just “in case” this sort of dreadful things occur.

I say that if you block a person, you have zero reason to still contact them. If you did, you’d not have blocked them. Therefore, I suggest to tweak the current standard of the /ignore function, and ensure that chat traffic halts both ways once a person has chosen to block another.