Publish at June 08 2008 Updated December 06 2023
A few years ago my kids, playing on the Neopets social site, lost some 100 000 hard-earned points towards a goal and that was due to a bug in the site. Big pain.
We were even for a real metaphysical discussion about value creation (virtual in this case), but yet how emotionally real.
A certain distance is salutary from "values," school grades, money, possessions, or even knowledge, which some accumulate in their archives like others accumulate small numbers in their bank accounts. A small recession or a change of perspective and pfuitt!" gone is the "value."
Precisely because of this propensity to place value on our virtual activities, some petty minds have discovered that they can cause grief ("grievance" in English) by disrupting the virtual activities in which people are invested. In networked games, they have been dubbed "griefers," the griefers.
Because of the anonymity and the easy justification that nothing on the Internet is real, they revel in the disarray they cause.
Some cases are less dramatic than others, including the now-famous "Great Funeral Massacre" on WOW (World of Warcraft), where a guild held an unarmed funeral ceremony for one of their own who died in an unsecured space.
Another guild invited themselves there and systematically slaughtered all participants without exception.
The whole thing was recorded and broadcast with commentary on YouTube.
Other more dramatic situations have led to suicides or lawsuits.
On an economic level, game platform administrators have begun to take action against these game spoilers that discourage newcomers and sicken veterans, as they drive away customers and result in financial losses of hundreds of thousands of dollars a month.
Who would have said that some circles would need to be policed to the same extent as in real life!
In online training, where anonymity is rare, cyberbullying is equally rare. Moreover, institutions are generally well equipped to track such activities.
Self-discipline in forums and exchanges is most often the rule; recalcitrants are called to order in one way or another by other members or by the moderator.
In fact, this is the type of strategy that is recommended by Microsoft to limit the activities of troublemakers:
Because of self-discipline, ability and accountability, distance learning will be able to do without police.
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