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mark players as "bad sports", allowing them to only play in lobbies with other "bad sports". Such points are either accumulated over time or gained within a certain time frame and are acquired by actions such as destroying another player's personal vehicle, or quitting jobs early. This is one of the more controversial features of the game, as some point out flaws such as the game not considering if destruction of a vehicle was self-defense.
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have implemented peer review systems, where if a player is reported too many times, multiple higher ranked players are allowed to review the player and determine if the reports are valid, and apply a temporary ban to the player's account if necessary. The player's name is omitted during the replay,
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games actively oppose griefers, since their behavior can drive away business. It is common for developers to release server-side upgrades and patches to annul griefing methods. Many online games employ
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1058:"Mutilated Furries, Flying Phalluses: Put the Blame on Griefers, the Sociopaths of the Virtual World"
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1131:"Hackers Assault Epilepsy Patients via Computer"
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1099:Internet's Most Wanted: A Rogue's Gallery
322:Learn how and when to remove this message
106:Learn how and when to remove this message
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1613:- feature article at VideoGamer.com
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920:Dibbell, Julian (18 January 2008).
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1211:"Gamers don't want any more grief"
955:Holin Lin; Chuen-Tsai Sun (2007),
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3082:Effects of violence in mass media
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3055:2021 Facebook company files leak
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1437:"How to (Maybe) Survive Combat"
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374:Intentionally killing oneself
3112:Social aspects of television
3012:Social media use in politics
2662:Missing white woman syndrome
1060:. In Johnson, Steven (ed.).
806:Glossary of video game terms
515:kill players as they respawn
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546:Tom Clancy's The Division
3144:Violence and video games
3122:Social impact of YouTube
3002:Knowledge gap hypothesis
2925:Social-desirability bias
2823:Information–action ratio
2384:Designing Virtual Worlds
1981:Advertising and products
1056:Dibbell, Julian (2009).
735:Bethesda Softworks Games
587:-inducing animations on
359:Giving false information
356:Colluding with opponents
3097:Mass shooting contagion
2550:Evolutionary psychology
722:Grand Theft Auto Online
497:Uploading offensive or
486:of cheating or griefing
3175:Video game terminology
3087:Fascination with death
2950:Political polarization
2878:Availability heuristic
2843:Television consumption
620:Blizzard Entertainment
145:multiplayer video game
3050:Criticism of Facebook
2930:Social influence bias
2818:Information pollution
2808:Information explosion
2791:Texting while driving
2747:Low information voter
2645:Pink-slime journalism
1384:"Scams in EVE Online"
1270:"Community Standards"
791:Anti-social behaviour
449:(taking advantage of
3067:Criticism of Netflix
2873:Availability cascade
2813:Information overload
2722:Attention management
2717:Attention inequality
2613:Human-interest story
2555:Behavioral modernity
2540:Cognitive psychology
2447:Mythic Entertainment
2391:A Rape in Cyberspace
2326:Player versus player
2301:Non-player character
2186:codebases, libraries
1986:Animation and comics
1492:Rock, Paper, Shotgun
1301:on November 22, 2013
1295:"Scams and exploits"
1010:"The Griefer Future"
719:By the early 2020s,
541:non-player character
456:Illegally exiting a
406:quits in frustration
386:Hiding from an enemy
256:improve this article
201:A Rape in Cyberspace
176:antisocial behaviors
40:improve this article
2980:Post-truth politics
2910:Mean world syndrome
2236:Alternate character
2145:Multi-user dungeons
1855:Padonkaffsky jargon
984:"Meet the Griefers"
624:software components
3180:Video game culture
2798:Influence-for-hire
2776:Media multitasking
2771:Human multitasking
2689:Tabloid television
2640:Media manipulation
1198:on 9 October 2007.
1151:, March 31, 2008,
1104:2009-07-16 at the
846:Knowledge:Griefing
841:Video game exploit
772:Video games portal
739:ZeniMax Media Inc.
601:subscription-based
210:In the culture of
197:Multi-User Domains
3165:Internet trolling
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2935:Spiral of silence
2888:Confirmation bias
2712:Attention economy
2694:Yellow journalism
2582:Social psychology
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2442:The Mud Connector
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2059:Eternal September
1611:Can you grief it?
1539:External link in
1462:"Suicide ganking"
1323:(July 20, 2010).
1256:"Darktide Rising"
1191:Los Angeles Times
1077:978-0-300-15410-8
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595:Industry response
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