Not dying as quickly as those you apologise to
JK - yes, it is rude and unforgivable to team-kill someone and not apologise. I have a theory that a lot of the people who do that are only very dimly aware that it is real people that they are doing this to.
To certain extent such people are 'lacking in affect', to coin a gruesome piece of psychobabble. That means they cannot imagine that any real, living, breathing, feeling person is on the receiving end of their actions. If you pull them up about it they react in a shocked fashion, like, "WTF? some buncha pixels is giving me a hard time!"
An 'apologise or boot' mut would not make people necessarily feel empathy for those that they teamkill but it would sure as hell make them go through the forms of politeness. If I am TK'ed, I would not usually care about the motives of the guy who did it when he apologises as long as I DID get an apology.
Such a mut would not prevent someone who enjoyed deliberately TK'ing - it would only slow them down enough to type in 'sry' but, for people who are just thoughtless, it would definitely remind them that they are dealing with other people.
JK - yes, it is rude and unforgivable to team-kill someone and not apologise. I have a theory that a lot of the people who do that are only very dimly aware that it is real people that they are doing this to.
To certain extent such people are 'lacking in affect', to coin a gruesome piece of psychobabble. That means they cannot imagine that any real, living, breathing, feeling person is on the receiving end of their actions. If you pull them up about it they react in a shocked fashion, like, "WTF? some buncha pixels is giving me a hard time!"
An 'apologise or boot' mut would not make people necessarily feel empathy for those that they teamkill but it would sure as hell make them go through the forms of politeness. If I am TK'ed, I would not usually care about the motives of the guy who did it when he apologises as long as I DID get an apology.
Such a mut would not prevent someone who enjoyed deliberately TK'ing - it would only slow them down enough to type in 'sry' but, for people who are just thoughtless, it would definitely remind them that they are dealing with other people.
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