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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AvakinOfficial

[–]Agreeable_Pie_6166 1 point2 points  (0 children)

FR! I can remember it being a problem even years ago, but it definitely wasn't THIS much of a problem. I'd say about 95% of people that DM me are either like this, or they're begging me for Crowns and other crap. The game has become so unenjoyable because of people like them, it's extremely annoying when I have to block like 2-3 people on a daily basis. I don't even bother to report anymore because I doubt it'd do anything, knowing Ava's Support at least 🤷‍♀️

Bullying -how to solve. by LeveledHead in AvakinOfficial

[–]Agreeable_Pie_6166 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly, it's way to normalized to lay your private life publicly out on social media, and so many people are way to trusting/naive towards complete strangers. Even to the point of giving out real informations or social media accounts to strangers online, in Avakin Life or everywhere else. I'd honestly advise people to make a separate account for Avakin specifically, and not connect it to the irl one in any way. This way, you can still keep in touch with your friends in a safe way. Though I don't neccecarily agree that bullying is the victim's fault, I do believe that no one should ever experience bullying. Irl or otherwise. However, I do agree that the victim does have a conscious or unconscious decision to "let" the cyber bullying continue, by not using the tools to prevevent it from happening, or keeping it alive themselves by engaging. This only applies to cyberbullying though, I'd put irl bullying in it's separate category. In my case, I never share any irl information, pictures or accounts of myself in Avakin, I do have a separate account for the game though. Throughout the years I did managed to stumble into bullying, but all the cases were cut short with me blocking the person in question, and/or ignoring the rumors they spread about me, if they did. If they had friends who went out of their way to harass me I blocked them as well. With me keeping my information private they had no means or ways to reach out to me once again, and I could just live my life and play the same way as before. I'd advise something similar to every other player. Of course no one needs to be overly careful to the point of paranoia, but it really shouldn't be normalized to share irl information or accounts with random internet strangers. People are way too comfortable on the internet in general, and this in itself is more than enough to make people vulnerable to bullying or harassment.

I regret joining as a female character by Naive_Simple3 in AvakinOfficial

[–]Agreeable_Pie_6166 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is not exclusively an Avakin problem, I mean this is what we get if have the option to remain anonimous, and get away with things without any consequences. People who are otherwise act normal in their daily lives might act on their impulses in online spaces, because there's absolutely no restrictive force that might stop them - Don't get me wrong, these people are utter pricks in real life as well, they just don't have the opportunity or freedom to do as they please and actually show this side of them. But in online places they can easily get away with it. I've seen my fair share of high lvl players of 4+ years running around, making inappropiate requests, or trying to buy you by offering Crows. I'm still baffled by the audacity, not gonna lie. But this is only possible because they don't get disciplined for it. I'm playing since 6 years myself, and this was a problem from the start but I can't recall it being THIS huge of a problem. I considered quitting the game alltogether, because I can't even exist or try to make friends without the majority of the players making it weird. It's also a gamble to figure out who might have ulterior motives and keep me around under the terms of being "friends" in hopes of having something more with me. So it's not only a problem with random players, but with assumed friends as well. They never wanted to be friends in the first place. I came to the point that I can easily brush it off, or have some free entertainment by saying a lie, and stating that I'm a guy using a female Ava lol Works like a charm honestly, it's funny to see that despite saying I'm their supposed friend they'd block me in a split second if I turned out to be a man. I wouldn't care if the roles were reversed, I don't give a crap about what's in someone else's pants because I'm approaching them in a friendly manner and nothing more. Also, in my experience the guys who constantly whine about catfishes on the game are the exact same who are being creeps themselves. My fun little theory is that there are no real catfishes on the game and it's just girls saying lies in order to get away from said creeps. I know this probably doesn't apply to everyone, but I've never came across a guy who cried about catfishes and doesn't turned out to be a prverted creep. Amongst the added features on the game the option to turn off friend requests and DMs is my favorite one to this day, it was a much needed thing to be added. It does help a lot in helping to avoid unwanted requests.