Cleaning up Thunder Bluff

An anonymous reader writes "Colleen Hannon at Gamers With Jobs is mad as hell, and she's not going to take it anymore. 'Unless you're playing Neopets, online servers are full of foul-mouthed, racist junk-monkeys. The hate-filled miasma they spatter around them has reached the point where many people who could be on those services won't go, and those who do brave it won't go without a posse and riot gear.' She plays out every side of the argument: why things have gotten as bad as they've become, what publishers have and haven't done about it, and why she thinks things are now at unacceptable levels of incivility. She's calling on us gamers to get together and figure this out, because: 'If we wait for the new sheriff in town to fight this battle for us we might not like the town we're left with.' Is it as bad as she says?"

Now that's a timely article

[AKAImBatman]

I was just threatening to yank the impromptu slashdot chat room [slashdot.org] after a (literally) 12 year old chatter was getting out of hand. You know, I remember being a young teenager with loads of "hacking" scripts. I *don't* remember being so annoying about them.

On the other hand, it's always funny when they fall for the "Alt-F4 to kickban" trick. :P

obPA

[Rob T Firefly]

Gabe said it best. [penny-arcade.com]

Thunder Bluff?

[wbren]

But Thunder Bluff is full of easy-going Tauren. I mean, I've had people moo at me rudely, but I wouldn't call them "racist junk-monkeys". I'm sick of people stereotyping Tauren! First it's "Tauren are stupid cows" and "Tauren aren't allowed in my house because they'll break the china". Now it's "Tauren are racists". When will it all end...

Thunder Bluff?

[richdun]

On behalf of the Taurahe people, I for one am highly offended at the implication that our peaceful, majestic city in the clouds needs cleaning up. Our Bluffwatchers are some of the most efficient custodians I have ever seen, and our program to recycle waste products into compost to aid in Arch Druid Runetotem's morrorwgrain research sets an example for capital cities across Azeroth.

Despite our bovine nature, and its accompanying production of large piles of waste product, we boast of the cleanest cities on Azeroth or Outlands, free from the usual blight of urban sprawl, like the putrid sewers of Undercity, the molten magma "waste processing" of Ironforge, or the dumbasses in Stormwind who let a dragon take over the city just because she could shapeshift into a "hawt bb." Meanwhile, we have continued to maintain a healthy tourism industry, and, unlike our druidic friends in Darnassus, people actually go to Thunder Bluff on purpose, not just because their cat hit the mouse and they were trying to go to Winterspring to farm.

In summary, I expect a full apology to be delivered to Cairne by the end of the week. Reparations in the form of well chewed grass, some decent low level balance druid armor, or a free pass to /spit on all rogues, both Alliance and Horde, would be acceptable.

Celticow
(Azjol-Nerub)

Re:Thunder Bluff?

[vjmurphy]

I hear that Geico's next commercials will feature a new tag line "So easy, even a Tauren can do it."

Re:obPA

[Suertreus]

Twice! [penny-arcade.com]

Re:There is a solution to this problem

[orclevegam]

1) Idiot A mouths off to Idiot B on-line
2) Idiot B looks up the real name and address of Idiot A.
3) Idiot B drives to Idiot A's house and shoots him.

4) Jack Thompson threatens to ban all video games
5) Idiot C drives to Thompsons house and shoots him.
6) ???
7) Profit!

And no, before someone says it I do not condone the shooting of Jack Thompson...
Shooting would be too good for him. He should be disbarred and die a lonely broken man, although considering his mental state (I don't believe for a minute he's actually sane, whether he passed a psych test or not) he'd probably just retreat into Thompson land and sit gibbering in a corner... actually, that might explain a few things.

Re:Options in WoW

[Matthew Bafford]

There are addons that will remove this limit, and sync your /ignore list across toons on the same realm.

Yeah, I think I found out about some of those. I ended up using the ultimate mod, though - deltree. That solved all of my WoW related problems.

Re:Just leave general chat

[devnull17]

I've played on both RP and normal PvE servers. There's no difference whatsoever, except that people whine about each others' innocuous names and force them to change them. No one actually role-plays. The general levels of player skill, intelligence, English fluency, helpfulness and friendliness aren't any higher than they are on other servers. If anything, the players are slightly more noobish (and insist that they not be held accountable for sucking, as they play for fun) in PvE, and downright awful in PvP.

But I hear you can get some hot night elf ass on the Deeprun Tram.