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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 02 2017, @08:01PM (2 children)
I think we all know that not everyone knows the difference, but that doesn't mean you have to care about their feelings. They can either toughen up or remain perpetually offended babies; 'offensive' things are not going to go away, so the former is preferable.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Friday June 02 2017, @08:53PM (1 child)
Yes, grow a skin.
Turn off or ignore the taunts, never respond, and just get really good at the game.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday June 02 2017, @09:34PM
>Yes, grow a skin.
Easy to say, probably appropriate/correct in 99%+ of cases, but you're going to interact with a lot of people in your life - every once in awhile you'll interact with an outlier where "grow a skin" really isn't the right answer. Do you really want to be the asshole who contributes to something tragic, when you could have just not been an asshole and helped this rare person grow through their problem rather than breaking?
Granted, "special flowers" have no place in online gaming, but I guarantee that they are still there, and it's even harder to tell in that kind of forum what you're really doing to the people on the other side of your abuse.
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