@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.
@GraveledStoopid Well said.
I think that, as far as when emotes can be considered harassment, a lack of forethought has placed a number of emotes into the game which hardly have any other purpose than to be offensive. I'm certain that the design team thought that they had simply made cute or funny choices in what to include, or at the very least that they had simply picked out selections which matched the current theme of the Prize Map but unfortunately it doesn't seem that any more thought or consideration was put into them beyond that so now the "poop" emote is the standard insult to be hurled or paired with other expressions to form insults or derogatory statements.
On a broader sense though, if we set aside emotes which automatically have negative associations, anything at all can be considered harassment if you have the right mindset, including the most innocent of expressions, so it can be really subjective. For example, if someone runs a vanquish streak on a player, like 0-9, and emotes the happy face every time somebody out there is going to feel targeted and label that as some sort of sarcastic harassment.
Having said that though I do think that there are emotes which were added which were phenomenally poor decisions on the part of the design team considering that they were being introduced into a competitive game environment, which is remarkably different from using emotes on your phone.
