this is very true, coming from a girl that's about to lose her house in 2 months, I can relate to this. There wast this one person (also not naming names, but if you see this you know who you are) who was spamming the chat with thinks like "My life is horrible" and "I lost my lava block I should just go kill myself" and things like that. Everyone was pitying him yet I felt it was appalling. Being in a completely worse situation in real life made me almost go insane. And I told him, and everyone else on the server this all well. I didn't want to make him feel bad, just let him know other people have worse problem then I lava block gone missing and he looked like he was craving attention. We talked for a bit and he admitted he was over reacting and we sorted it out. It was still really appalling though.
exactly what I was trying to say in the chat the whole time. everyone kept pitying him no matter what I said <.<
feeling sad about something in a game is one thing, but making other people pity you and feel depressed as well really isn't the way to go. I remember he even /nicked himself my_life_SUX it was like, dude really? it's pixels on a screen! I'm surprised I controlled my anger, I have a fairly bad anger issue if people are annoying me or being really stupid, so I'm glad that didn't happen. I even told him "Witch is worse? losing your lava pixels or your irl house?" he then proceeded to /ignore me until I got people to tell hem not to.
I understand what you mean completely. I for one, used to be one of those people. I'm not anymore, to an extent. I like everyone still brag about things but when I was younger I used to come up with crazy lies to get myself attention, I cringe whenever I think of it. And about the seeking attention from depression, have you ever seen the photos of people cutting themselves for attention? it's appalling! other people cut for a reason, yet they seem to only want attention from strangers from over seas. have you heard of Onision? he gets my and your point across very well. (he can sware a far bit, just a heads up )
see, telling people for that reason is ok, but making something like the cut 4 beiber was not. and that's really sad to hear, I hope it gets better for you and with onision I think you should watch him, he's a great guy that is really funny and talks about serous issues.
I did not know you were griefed. I thought you were upset because your IRL friend was mad at you. I am sorry that I did not comfort you as a friend.
When I heard about this, I came on and dealt with it appropriately. Any talk of death or related will not be allowed on my watch.