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A study carried out by an anti-bullying charity found that 57% of the young people it surveyed had experienced bullying online when playing games.
In addition, 22% said they had stopped playing a game as a result.
Ditch the Label surveyed around 2,500 young members of the virtual hotel platform Habbo, aged between 12 and 25.
One 16-year-old gamer, Bailey Mitchell, told the BBC he had experienced bullying while playing online games since the age of 10.
"If you're going to school every day and you're being bullied in school you want to go home to your computer to escape," he said.
"So if you're getting more abuse thrown at you it's going to put you off doing anything social - it has for a lot of people I know, me included.
"It's regular, every other game you're in, there's always someone who has a mic or types in chat. They'll call you some random abusive thing they can think of."
Indeed, young gamers should stop bullying old people in online games.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by kurenai.tsubasa on Friday June 02 2017, @01:30PM (11 children)
You know what you can do in an online game you can't do at school? Hit the damned mute button. PVP the dipshit and take him to school. You give a bully a black eye for harassing you at school, they give YOU detention. In a video game unlike real life, YOU ACTUALLY CAN IGNORE THEM AND THEY ACTUALLY GO AWAY!
But which fucking games are these? What are they? Cock of Duty? STOP PLAYING FUCKING COCK OF FUCKING DUTY!
Maybe I have a new proposal. I was inspired by the proposals out of feminism from 90 to require a birth certificate to prove that you're a womyn-born-womyn before using a female avatar. How about we just BAN womyn-born-womyn from online games since apparently having a vagina makes you too stupid to find the mute button?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Friday June 02 2017, @02:00PM (10 children)
Once - after that, the bully will let you alone, there will be other easier targets.
If it can be afforded, one may see the detention a good investment for the future.
Mate, remember Wheaton's Law [knowyourmeme.com] and stop GIFT-ing [knowyourmeme.com], will ye?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 02 2017, @02:31PM
There is that as most bullies tend to have glass jaws and too much ego to cry to their own mommas when someone hits back.
(Score: 3, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday June 02 2017, @02:41PM (5 children)
Wheaton's law is the most ironic meme I've ever seen. The guy is a colossal prick.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 02 2017, @02:46PM (4 children)
Somebody loves gratuitous oxymorons, I see.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday June 02 2017, @05:03PM (3 children)
Doctor Poole was right; you're an ox and a moron.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 02 2017, @05:27PM (1 child)
Still better than a narcissistic ugly bird.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday June 02 2017, @06:52PM
I find your lack of cinematic trivia disturbing.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 03 2017, @01:02AM
I'm a figment of your mind, you're taking to yourself. Again.
But then, what's not to like? Perfection taking to perfection, what an uplifting conversation I and I both have.
(Score: 2) by nobu_the_bard on Friday June 02 2017, @04:34PM (2 children)
Man...
If I have a serious regret about high school, it is that I did not just kick at least one pretty aggravating bully in the head. Just once.
Not like, beat him when he's down, just one really solid blow to the head, then deal with whatever the repercussions would have been. No guns or weapons or anything. Maybe I'd get detention, or suspension, or who knows what. But I'd have remembered that one time forever, and so will that guy, and possibly some witnesses, and probably nobody will have remembered the punishment or the retaliation or whatever.
But.
Not sure I'd have had the wisdom, in those days, to use it at precisely the right time.
So maybe it's best I never did.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 02 2017, @05:44PM
Bard's don't normally fare well in melee... probably wise you did not ;)
Some people go for +str some for +wis
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 02 2017, @07:43PM
Regrets are only useful as a way to change your future actions.
Forget that specific bully, but look around you and see if there is a present-day bully that needs to be retaliated against. If you find none, then let those memories because they only take away from your strengths.