Hey Guys,

I need to run something by ya'll and see what ya'll say about it. Last night, me and a SF were in the DA (D Office) with 2 randoms. Anyway, we were on a level that had the minesweeper style puzzle. I had a brain fart and chose the wrong square. We'll I started getting greif from the randoms. I thought "OK I deserve it. I did something stupid. So take it on the chin." I did. I had my sf to choose lure and I used my level 7 choo choo on the skelees. Even after that, I was receiving grief from those guys for the rest of the floor. We're on the next floor, and we come to a puzzle section. I hang back w/one of the randoms. I'm still getting grief. I'm starting to tire of it right now. I'm not touching the puzzle. I said sorry, I fixed the problem, what else am I supposed to do? We make it to the end of that level. Guess what? Receiving more grief. I wish I can more descriptive with what I was getting, but it was coming furious with whispers and out in the open. I didn't write them down. We're on the 2nd level of this thing, and I do not want to hear four more levels of this junk. So I ask my SF if it was ok to do so. She agreed to do so. I think she was getting some grief too.

So my question to ya'll is what would ya'll do? I'm obviously not a good griefer. So I didn't have any snappy comebacks. And when I finally did try a comeback, they were lame. Should I have stuck it out with those guys?

As a side note: They stink us we were leaving and when we came back to the DA's office. What's a toon to do?

People do tend to get very touchy in there. We had one leave when someone accidently hit the safe instead of piano. Not a major deal, but this toon ditched us asap. You did the right thing in my opinion. If I trigger the skelecogs than I use a level 7. If I have no sevens to use(which is almost all the time these days), then I don't do the puzzles that I might not get. The minesweeper is one that is triggered the most and most toons usually don't care especially if you used a seven on it. Just keep hanging out with folks here and your stinkiness will drastically improve. I wouldn't worry about it too much. I don't think going four more floors with constant grief is anyones idea of fun. Unless of course it's friends and you are just goofing off.

Hey... you did what you could do... when it gets to the point of taking the "fun" out of the game then it's time to leave and it sounds like that is what you did.

I had grief yesterday fighting the cj. I'm stunning the cogs and this toon comes up and says you need to hit the scale. We were close to the end so I thought okey they need help over there. I got more evidence and by the end of that round we were finished. When everyone was dancing she kept saying you stink you need to hit the scale. Now I think I sparkle fighting the cj so what the heck was that all about. Some toons are just downright mean. If toons are mean from now on im makin like a banana and split. You did the right thing, no one deserves to be treated meanly. Its only a game. Hey I'll play with you.

That's why I don't go with randoms. I play for fun and they suck the fun out. *shrug* what can you do? People take this stuff way too seriously. They were jerks, and I probably would have left too. Life's too short.

I usually just go in with peeps I know...

Granny would have griefed them back!

I agree, though, and don't like having the fun taken out of it for me, either.

I'm right with ya Granny!

Personally I think it's very sad that a toon would feel that way, LW. But I think I know how she feels. The very few times I have ever run with all randoms I felt the same way when things go wrong - are they going to "kill me off" if things don't go their way? I also notice the same thing when my friends have a random tag along. It's pitiful that so many people in a fun cartoon game think it's OK to treat others like crap, and the saddest part of all is that many of the worst ones are adults! I'm very watchful of my little ones when they play because of this - even on the trolley people are jerks. Any adult who acts this way should be ashamed of themselves.

I'm all for personal preferences, heck I sure have my own way of doing things, right, MST? But if I am going to insist on my way I should play alone or with friends who agree.

I see this a lot because I don't have a huge friends list, and most of my CB and LB HQ runs are with randoms since hubby doesn't play as much as he used to and doesn't have a full CB suit as it is.

It's one thing to loose a building and get a you stink, it doesn't feel nice but once is all they need to say it. You know you did wrong, they proved it, time to move along. To continue with the stinks, and sad faces over and over again crosses the line.

Honestly, I would have left as well. But that's after they did a couple lures and I tooted my bike horn a time or two with an "oops" "sorry".


I just don't have the patience to deal with idiots or griefers in an online environment anymore. They feel it's an anonymous face they wear which gives them a license to be a moron. It also reinforces the fact my child will not be posting anywhere on the internet until I know for a fact he won't be acting like a 6 year old at a cotton candy stand waiting in line for his 15th serving of pure sugar.

I digress... lol

Back to your situation yeah I would have bailed as well. I also would have done screen shots and sent them in as harrassment. The screen shot shows who it was and provide the time you were on so they can find the logs easier. The logs will show if you are over reacting and they only did a stink maybe twice or if you really were harrassed and stunk 30 or 40 times.

Sorry it happened. If you want to meet up to have another friend to run with let me know and we can eiter exchange a SF code if you want or just be regular speed chat friends. I'll gladly run with you any time I can.

If I make a mistake, (pick the wrong gag, god forbid I tag the 11 with "tester toons" in the mint, evoke the frowny/sad face, trip the holocogs yada yada), I may say sorry but I just move on. If and when someone makes a big deal out of it, I just remain silent. I don't SF chat or Speedchat much anyway.

I won't ditch with a freind, but if I am solo I may throw my TP hole and leave but most times I'm too stubborn and just power thru.

What LZ and LW said is really important, which is to NOT belittle or denigrate others.
I don't like it when I even think about saying "Huh", "Are you New Here", "You stink" etc....

As to greifing the greifers.... Well I only go after the reformed greifers, red pigs, oranage cats and toons with cute names and matching outfits.

I hear there is an all volunteer vigalante force who goes after the griefers. But it's a super secret group, has wicked initiation rites, and is headed by some toon named.......{connection lost}....... {your IP has been flagged}...... (your system is being restarted}, .....{your hard disk is being reformatted }.......

Sounds like you were in with some real winners there. Everyone that attempts the puzzles is going to trip them now and then. I tripped the holo's on minesweeper the other day, fortunately with friends who gave me grief with love. Last time I tripped them in a random, I was fortunate to be with a great group that all said "No problem".

Ricky has the phrase "Don't sweat it", which I always use when someone trips the skeles. If they trip them repeatedly, or trip them on the really easy ones - that's a different story. If they were giving you that much grief on only the second floor, I'm not sure I would have stayed either. If I did, I would have just watched while they did the rest of the puzzles and been very polite if/when they tripped one. I'm usually off chatting on IM somewhere, so I miss most of what's said in-game anyway LOL.

Granny doesn't have much experience with the DAs, so when she does go, she likes to try the puzzles... you know, to get some practice. More often than not I'm tripping the holocogs and then LOLing about it. Fortunately, I'm with friends who "grief with love" as Heather said.

For the most part, if I ever do play with randoms I try to give them the benefit of the doubt. As someone pointed out, it could be a kid. And this is just a game, something I do for laughs and to spend time with my online friends. When it boils down to it, I have more stressing issues in RL than to waste my time and energy over behavior on TT.