Just curious, at what point do we consider emotes to be harassment, if at all?I get that emotes are meant to be fun, and maybe poking fun at people.But when someone deliberately hunts you the entire game and every time they get a vanquish they’re spamming”Salty” or “Terrible” or “poop emoji” than what?Does popcap condone those behavior?

Maybe there can be an option to mute emojis for the lobby or an individual player. They'd be emoting away but unknown to them you are just enjoying the game unaffected. Popcap can also track how often a player uses emojis and is individually muted. These stats can be used for temporary emoji prison where you can't emote for e.g. 1 week. Maybe too far but the point is there should be solutions to this, it annoys enough people.

@ShinobicapI love when people taunt-emote and end up getting killed. Karma baby 🙂 I myself only emote players who are idling in ops and arnt helping. Had a hard elite boss round yesterday, me and my friend, a rookie player and a idling super brainz, I was quite annoyed with the last guy.

It’s always funny when someone’s fishing for emotes and they die to a stray ZPG or bean bomb or something. I don’t know why, but a ton of high rank players love to just spam “poop” and “terrible!” on the boast podium, which is really annoying. I’m also a high rank player so whenever I get on the boast podium I always try to say “Nice!” And “Not too shabby!” so that i’m not being condescending towards other players, because I know how toxic and annoying that gets. Some people have nothing better to do than bully kids on this game and make fun of them, which is just sad for them.

@themightylayman Believe it or not, children play this game! And little kids are very impressionable and very sensitive! It’s not the fact that the teens and adults who play this game are going to bed at night with it in the back of their mind, it’s the fact that there are children who are being harassed as well, and that some of those children will go on to take up a mentality that it’s alright if they’re encouraged to do so.“Toughen up, crybabies.” Go find another forum somewhere else if you’re going to bring this type of unhelpful negativity.

We had a discussion similar to this one two months ago:https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Taunts-Pics-amp-Speech/m-p/8675407#M13327I'm still all for the idea of being able to disable certain emotes in your game (for you and others). You can't use them and won't be offended by them and the other person can assume they are infuriating you (and could still be sniped while doing it). Win win.

At what point do we consider emotes to be harassment?

18 Replies

GraveledStoopid
6 years ago
@Shinobicap Unfortunately, yes.
Shinobicap
6 years ago
@GraveledStoopid Ouch, that’s rough. Seems like it makes for some pretty toxic gameplay 😕
TheSprinter85
Hero
6 years ago
Any emotes that could be used in a rude or harmful way should be considered as harassment, at least if you find it harassing (such as "Nice Try!") 😉!
34975634954957
6 years ago
Maybe there can be an option to mute emojis for the lobby or an individual player. They'd be emoting away but unknown to them you are just enjoying the game unaffected.
Popcap can also track how often a player uses emojis and is individually muted. These stats can be used for temporary emoji prison where you can't emote for e.g. 1 week. Maybe too far but the point is there should be solutions to this, it annoys enough people.
bcks007
6 years ago
@ShinobicapI love when people taunt-emote and end up getting killed. Karma baby 🙂 I myself only emote players who are idling in ops and arnt helping. Had a hard elite boss round yesterday, me and my friend, a rookie player and a idling super brainz, I was quite annoyed with the last guy.
SockReverie
6 years ago
It’s always funny when someone’s fishing for emotes and they die to a stray ZPG or bean bomb or something. I don’t know why, but a ton of high rank players love to just spam “poop” and “terrible!” on the boast podium, which is really annoying. I’m also a high rank player so whenever I get on the boast podium I always try to say “Nice!” And “Not too shabby!” so that i’m not being condescending towards other players, because I know how toxic and annoying that gets. Some people have nothing better to do than bully kids on this game and make fun of them, which is just sad for them.
themightylayman
6 years ago
I can't roll my eyes hard enough at the idea somebody saying "salty" or showing a poop emoji could be considered harassment.

Seriously: toughen up, crybabies.
SockReverie
6 years ago
@themightylayman Believe it or not, children play this game! And little kids are very impressionable and very sensitive! It’s not the fact that the teens and adults who play this game are going to bed at night with it in the back of their mind, it’s the fact that there are children who are being harassed as well, and that some of those children will go on to take up a mentality that it’s alright if they’re encouraged to do so.

“Toughen up, crybabies.” Go find another forum somewhere else if you’re going to bring this type of unhelpful negativity.
Shinobicap
6 years ago
@themightylayman Wow dude you get enjoyment of bullying little kids online, you must a pure gem irl. That's the thing about the internet though, isn't it?
Gormey
6 years ago
@themightylayman Agreed.