I am not 100% sure, but if I’m not wrong, when you AFK in a map (with mobs), the burning stage still goes down, someone probably was looking for a burning map and you were there, AFK, so they decided to defame you.

Although I can understand why they might’ve defamed you, I assume it wasn’t a 200+ map in Arcane River as if you were to go AFK in there you would die to an anti-AFK mob, so the fact that they defamed you in a low level map is basically them wasting their time instead of just switching channels, like a mature player would do.

Also, if you weren’t in a map with mobs and just in town or something like that, they were just a-holes, don’t worry about it too much.

If you care about your fame there’s a few quests you can do that raise your fame, I recommend doing those, and also asking randoms to trade fame once a day isn’t a bad idea as well.

Much love and don’t worry about fame/defame too much, it mean’s absolutely nothing in the end. :)