Etiquette

The example to your left (hopefully , unless blogger decides to fuck with the alignment) is a typical unmoderated 'conversation' you might find on a normal day in the chatroom. It is unmoderated because it is taking place in a swearbox.

The swearbox is a place for banned users who are removed from the public rooms. There are no bots found in the swearbox so swearing and spamming is allowed, making it a rather unpleasant place to be in.

What you are looking at are two individuals who have decided to pair up against one other user whom they have deemed as an 'enemy'. Yes, I too have no clue as to what is happening. They seem to be daring each other to leave the swearbox. For what purpose I am unsure, but one of them seems to be correcting the other in the spelling of, 'midgit'.

Perhaps the reason we have trouble understanding our audience, is that they are actually not making any sense.

None of the users shown, in the screenshot, are banned so they are free to leave the swearbox at any time. However, as you can see, the swearbox doubles as a 'playground' when one has 'beef' with another user as mouthing off tends to make one converse in a rather colourful manner. Similar conversations usually do not last in public rooms as there are bots and other high level users with banning powers present.

Lately I've been avoiding going on the chatrooms as regularly as I used to.

I have decided that detaching myself from the ongoing drama and user relationships to be the sane thing to do. Attachment to the ever fickle and emotionally high strung virtual personas not only deter you from other more important priorities, like say work, it also forces you to keep up with the seemingly random issues that bloom between said individuals. Research? Nay! Just another means of procrastination via morbid curiosity and mind numbing submission to restlessness.

Speaking of, the regulars seem restless today. Apparently, most of them have added each other as 'friends' on Myspace and the 'mystery behind a username' novelty is slowly wearing off. Real life, it seems, is far more dull than their virtual counterpart has lent them to be.

In any case, the regulars have grouped themselves into smaller clusters of 'allies'. And in that group, even smaller pairings usually a 'male' and a 'female'. You fuck with one, you will fuck with the other. This has caused mass bannings throughout the chatrooms until a truce is made in some form of /me command humiliation or when a sum of cookies is paid upfront as compensation. Sometimes, the high level regular logs in as their alt account, usually low level or even guest accounts. These accounts are usually used as traps for other users who aren't paying attention. The alt accounts usually annoy or spam the chatrooms until someone decides to ban or taunt them. These 'do-gooders' are then banned in return for 'falling' for the trap.