[Rant] Why should we tolerate abuse in virtual environments?

It's quite a double-edged sword, that whole "Freedom of Speech" thing. You can say whatever you want, but so can everyone else. People are gonna say shit about you, whether you want them to or not. Period. It's a part of life, and if you can't handle it, then you need to stay at home and avoid all human contact forever. Of course, that's not to say that it's okay to be a prick just because you can. In this day and age, people are generally pansies, and let simple words do so much damage to them that you'd think someone just walked up and punched them in the mouth and left with their wallet, but not before pissing on their shoes. I saw something on tv today about some presidential candidate who said that some black man was articulate, meaning it as a compliment, but said black man took it the wrong way, somehow, and got all bent out of shape about it. But that's a different topic for another day.

As for player-killing, most games like that have non-PvP servers you can go to to avoid that sort of thing. People can't complain that they're getting PK'ed if they intentionally play on the PvP servers.

While it is truly sad that the general attitude is "too bad, so sad" regarding online games, as long as there's no real penalty higher than account/IP banning, I don't see people's behavior changing any time soon.

Jam it back in, in the dark.