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By baiting, I mean posting deliberate dog whistles, often as crude proxies of what they fear and hate, and set off what is sometimes hours of chud barking in that area, whether it's a game's lobby chat or Discord or whatever.

Examples I've seen include old and exhausting shit like "did you just assume my gender" and "check your privilege, shitlord" 4chan greentext-tier staleness, but sometimes they can get slightly more cunning and insidious, such as portraying themselves as farcical LGBTQIA+ people then announcing an intent to do (conspiracies/crimes that chuds accuse LGBTQIA+ people of here) and keep up the whistling until every chud is barking across the site.

I do play some online games and calling out bait sometimes works, but it's still exhausting when a cooperative game shuts down because some chud starts a hate rally and effectively shuts down the game's cohesion for a while. joker-gaming

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[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I've yet to run into any chuds but that's because my online gaming is mostly done on private servers I try to vet before joining.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sometimes, I consider doing that, too. I play some games with big communities at the moment, though.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

On the Ultima Online server I use they even had woman's day which was cool, I think they also had events for pride.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I never thought I'd ever hear of a not-chud UO server. I quit so long ago. sicko-wistful

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago

UOAlive, it's great it's consensual pvp only so the gameplay is focused on pve and crafting.