To be honest, I've pretty much never personally seen people harassing others in games because they're girls.

80% of the time it's a team (team vs team) game and people shit talk some member of their own team for performing under-par, especially if that person is critical to the team loosing.  Like if you're playing DotA for example, and you're 0/15  (in which case it's probably better playing with 1 less player than having you in the team), I think it's almost certain at least one person on your team is going to rage at you.  Which makes it sort of hard for beginners I guess.

People don't shit talk others in 1v1 games much because when you win you're generally satisfied with the win, and when you loose, it's your own fault and not someone else's, so that keeps people quiet as well (besides, when you lost and you try to attack the person who won, you're clearly extremely butthurt you're in no position to attack the person who won, you'll only loose the argument as well because the other person will just leverage the fact that they won).

I mean there are cases of true arseholes that need to be banned (like my friend lol, he's a nice guy in real life, but in games he's like the biggest arsehole ever), but most of the time it can be solved by you not being bad at the game.

(This post was last modified: 19/07/2012 01:47 AM by Assassinator.)