A message to anyone with salt

Can't really be removed. The really vile garbage (death threats/encouragement, hard slurs) is already bannable and pretty easily identified, more general trash talk makes it a moderation nightmare to draw a line that determines exactly where it goes "too far".

In-game "toxicity" probably comes from scrub mentalities more than anything, especially the "vigilante" toxicity where someone sees the way that someone else is playing as against their personal rules of conduct and decide to punish them for it. Petty and pointless stuff, but I guess it's convenient to blame everything on someone that plays in a way that doesn't break any rules but they personally dislike.

And there's some people that just do it by default. Either because they're just trolls, or they're one of the people that take the perfectly valid statement of "i'm not responsible for my opponents' fun" and twist it into "i'm proud of ensuring i'm as obnoxious to play against as humanly possible"

not sure why you tagged me, I didn't say "forced" to let anyone go... its a nice gesture though.

oh no, I never meant to imply people HAVE to let others go... just that it's nice to run into the occasional killer who will see that the team is already screwed, so giving a little handicap to someone every now and then isn't a game ending thing.

besides, I didn't "let them go", I gave them a sporting chance to escape... they still died though. xD

I don't think playing nice really has much to do with letting people go, or cutting the killer a break once in a while if they have had an utterly poop game (works both ways), though I will add that its nice to sometimes not take all your frustrations out on what is essentially another human on the other side of that character.

Being nice can really boil down to just accepting your win or your loss with some dignity. You can be a decent human being by not using god awful threats or wishes for diseases despite relative internet anonymity, and STILL play the game.

In nearly 30 years of gaming I have not and will never accept "That's just how it is these days" or "Grow thicker skin"

Not a single person would accept that sort of thing in real life without getting upset or angry, why should they have to swallow it just because the aggressor is doing it via the internet?

absolutely, don't get me wrong... I may wish a fiery death upon certain people while I'm playing, but I won't message them anything like that... nor am I serious in those temporary wishes.

I may message them and ask what makes them play a certain way, like a trapper who slugged the first victim then followed them around until they bled out cause no one could pick them up... but I'm not usually overly salty about it.

(turns out that trapper was new, so we teamed up on swf and I tried to show him the ropes before he got sick of survivor and I took him to KYF to give him some pointers)

Just don't get mad at teabagging survivors? You don't need to tunnel them to beat them.

Control your temper and just play optimally to beat any toxic peoples' butts. Flashlight clicky clickies don't work too well if you have ears to track them with, and pallet drops don't work if you mindgame. If the survivor is just better than you and toxic, ignore them, let them waste time trying to bait you into a chase and kill their friends instead. I understand sometimes if you're going to play optimally you might need to tunnel someone to get it down to a 3v1, taking resources away from the survivors, but in the end if you're doing it for a reason as stupid and petty as "PUNISH THE PERSON WHO MADE ME MAD, UNGAH BUNGAH", then you need to take a break and go outside.

If someone wants to piss you off, don't give it to them. If someone wants you to chase them, don't get mad, just let them be stupid and waste time, and find someone else. Dealing with toxic people is actually really easy if you aren't a Neanderthal and actually know how to control your temper.

As much as I hate negative people, being negative in chat won't solve the problem, crippling torture might but it isn't guaranteed 100%.

I try to spread positivity as much as I can, today I had a match with a David and he was unfortunately a victim to a 3 person DC and died alone, content with his fate. I could have let him live but I'm a person too and I need the points because I just started on PC today. Later on I met the same David and I tried my best to give him a better match, ignored him when I could etc. I don't know if he was happy about it, I asked but I don't know this :'D means, I think it's this 😂? I don't know emojis lol

Anyway we must all do our best to spread around the joy and always, ALWAYS, tunnel these bitches down and hook them in the Basement because their souls are worth devouring, their negativity is super juice that keeps the damned alive. I will slug them and let them bleed out if I don't need the points but other than that, be kind everyone <3 Love is the answer.

That's nice!

I try to gift killers a kill when they played well and just didn't get any kills because they rotated too much and didn't focus anyone.

I think that we should all step down with the expectations we have.

For example, it's a killers duty to kill so I don't get why I should let somebody go: has some survivor disconnected? Is somebody playing poorly? That's all part of the inherent risk of playing survivor. As part of a team, if the team performs poorly you will be punished, independently of your skill.

On the contrary, playing killer requires cold blood: you know you will rush against time, you will face people tbagging or flashing you in the face. I don't expect survivors with flashlights not to try a flashlight save, and I can't get angry because it's what they are supposed to do.

Probably we should all just remember it's just a game and we are doing it FOR FUN.

No, like I said:

I seen many posts from you, and it's okay if you want to sacrifice survivors, it's not against the rules. However, if you are feeling nice and can afford to, then give it a thought to give second chances.

Sometimes I have to sacrifice every survivor because the rank system calls for a 4K at red ranks. However, if I can't afford to give out second chances, I usually (25% of the time) send a nice message to the survivors who I take early.

"Sorry, I need to sacrifice everyone because I'm at red ranks."

"GG, sorry for taking you out early, I needed to because it's very demanding to rank up as the killer."

If you don't want to do anything above, that's okay! However, I encourage everyone not to be a bad sport by BMing survivors such as hitting them repeatedly on the hook because it could cause them to take offense of that. The last thing we all want are people getting toxic towards each other, ya know?

This also applies to the survivors, I usually let inexperienced killers kill/sacrifice me (but they usually down me and drop me at the Exit Gates anyways ☹)

Same here, I do get salty sometimes as well, but my salt is more physical — I will take a break from the game.

If I'm really upset, I will say something on the lines of, "Wow, did I do something wrong? 🤷‍♂️"

However, my first scenario occurs when I get cheated out of something, happens more often as a survivor because I don't have as much control when I'm the killer.

The second one is rare, basically I don't send hate mail. I think my last hate mail was like a month ago, and I regret it. :(

yeah i don't either, i actually said sorry the next day to the one i called a twat but yes sometimes it is fustrating, annoying....and you need to take a spa break lol but regret is good, some don't or aren't ashamed of things they say and that is worse

@Mushwin - If Mr Mushwin gets things thrown at him when you lose, you should make up for this by throwing him treats when you win. (I recommend bacon).

That's fine too, but you should try to follow the golden rule: "Treat others how you would like to be treated" :-)

ok

For example the other night I was play some survivor and I was up against a Freddie and omg they was good like unreal level good. I'm like he must be running a true god build or something I was thinking all game bbq? Nurses??

So the game ended with them killing everyone and to my surprise the person was using a splinter and my jaw dropped in awe.

I proceeded to message the person to just say how much of a fun and enjoyable match it was and how amazing they played him.

They was very pleased with the messages and are used to normally getting much salt and threats and it made their day someone actually respected good play style.

Alot can be achieved with being respectful and i think the toxic ways of most people make this game really unfun and destroy it.

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A bp reward system would be neat. Encourage people to not be complete dick heads and basically reward each other with bonus bp. Little kudos system that awards like idk 10k per player? It'd be less heavy handed than some new report and ban system. Obviously it'd have to be balanced, swf not being able to give eachother bonus bp since that'd defeat the purpose on the survivor side. Indirectly it'd encourage solo play, people would want their bp and wouldn't be completely and utterly toxic knowing it'd result in less BP than usual.

All around it'd spread pretty good vibes from both survivor and killer, help everyone realize it's a symbiotic relationship keeping the game alive. Idk why people can't seem to figure that out.

Fair enough, though it'd probably not be good for community and game health for all this to keep up.

I have one solution to you.

Turn off the chat using the double arrows (if you are interested in seeing their perks) or leave immeditely.

I know sometimes games can be rough. If you do get angry, dont push yourself to play more games.