In several online games I've been playing the last few years, I've made in-game acquaintances, people I look to 'party' with. I've noticed a clear pattern with

In several online games I've been playing the last few years, I've made in-game acquaintances, people I look to 'party' with. I've noticed a clear pattern with some people. It starts with a "light" "off-color" joke here and there to "test the waters." Over the period of a couple of gaming sessions, things get worse and worse until they're being openly bigoted, such as declaring a certain playable character in the game as "that dyke bitch". I've also had people get really mouthy about "illegals", stereotypes about welfare/crime and black people, and so on. If there are bigots specifically fishing around in gaming communities for like-minded individuals, from what I've seen, it's a target-rich environment, at least in first/third person shooting games.