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Calling it "rage quitting" when someone is no longer interested in playing a game you want them to play is an intimidation tactic. It's really none of your busi
by wissler 14y ago
Calling it "rage quitting" when someone is no longer interested in playing a game you want them to play is an intimidation tactic. It's really none of your business to tell someone what they must play and when and how.
In more civilized times it was called "conceding defeat" not "rage quitting."
- martinced 14y ago"ragequitting" is a (bogus) term used to describe a user trying to break havoc by removing all the content he created from the sites he's quitting. Or even performing vandalism by modifying questions / answers (eg randomly adding or removing not to sentences, changing their meaning to say the opposite of what was meant). But it is indeed an intimidation tactic when stackexchange says: "Don't even think about ragequitting, you can't do it, we'll revert your rage changes". Because real ragequitting ain't about vandalism. Real ragequitting is about spreading the word out, on sites / blogs / forums they don't control about their unacceptable behavior.
- zem 14y agolikewise "taking your ball and going home" is often a way to shame people into continuing to play on a field that favours you over them.
- tedunangst 14y agoDepends on context. I sometimes think of the connotation as the person taking the ball away is the one making unreasonable demands and using the threat of spoiling the game for everyone to get their way.