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?
"Wow dude you get enjoyment of bullying little kids online, you must a pure gem irl. "
Never said that, but thanks for putting words in my mouth.
I do reject the idea that a "salty" emoji constitutes bullying, tho.
@themightylayman I’m not trying to put words in your mouth. You said it yourself “toughen up crybabies” and “roll your eyes hard” that implies that you are for this type of behavior.
I don’t believe emotes are toxic when used in a fun way. but. there is a limit. You know very well the point of my post, so I’m not going to explain it again.
Let me guess, there’s no such thing as teabagging? that’s just someone performing the duck function again and again endlessly for no reason and is not at all meant to trigger their opponent?
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#M13327
I'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.
@TLEsquire Thats an excellent idea! and thank you for the link 🙂
@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.
