JoysJoy wrote: ↑06 December 2024, 16:58
You already have an entire paragraph on your profile talking about this, if they care to look. You don’t need to do more.
I do find it suspicious that your icon looks a lot like the Denmark flag, yet you still complain about others doing the same thing: displaying the idea of their flags
And I truly don’t understand what you mean by someone being able to “convert you “by showing their flag. You can’t be converted into a Russian or a Chinese. You either are or you aren’t a citizen of that country. I have never had anybody ever ever ever put anything religious in any chat to try to convert me to their beliefs. And I have played well over 6000 games here just like you. I would imagine if it was a big problem on this website. I would’ve run into it at least once by now.
But either way this is your problem, not theirs. I don’t think this is a rational reason to kick somebody out of a game. And that would be why it would upset other people. People don’t like being discriminated against. It makes no sense to some people.
However, you figured out to not let them play games with you to fix it on your side. That fixes it for you and not speaking to the other people about it makes it a little step less worse for them.
What else can you do?
1) Add a red thumbs down to those that you boot. So that you don’t have to click them out again. No conundrum in yourself anymore about not telling.
2) Start friending people that you do want to play with so you don’t have to go through so many random people every time you want a game. Pre-choose your players rather than asking for random people to play
3) Create your own interest group. You could call it the “no flags allowed” group and only those without flags as icons can play in your group. Maybe you aren’t alone? (but you would have to change your own icon to fit into your own group at that point)
4) Add the extension that lets you block all chat. Then you don’t have to worry about whoever you’re playing trying to “convert you “ (I still don’t understand what you mean by that comment). I think this extension causes all kinds of other troubles for people, but at least you wouldn’t have the problem of what anybody says in the chat causing you mental anguish.
But I think this is a valuable explanation for the many many other threads where people say ‘why am I just kicked out of games? Why would anybody do that to somebody else? I don’t understand why this is happening to me?’
Now we know that sometimes it is simply a personal, emotional issue on the side of the person kicking people out. That they have something going on in their own heads that they attach randomly to other people based on symbols or thoughts and feelings at the moment.
it both is and isn’t personal against other players when you do it. I hope I can remember to find this thread for the next time we get yet another question here about where someone asks why they have been randomly kicked out at the start of a game.
What I have experienced at an unpleasantly high frequency is that when someone from the place in question AND someone from particular other countries is there, it could end up in big discussions along the line of "your media isn't telling the truth", "my country was right to do this and that", "we were attacked first", etc. Naturally, it's not something that is guaranteed to happen (or anything close to that), but it has happened enough times that it now generates concern, which isn't exactly my idea of having fun. 