I was really sad to find out he was serious..

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Omga4000 wrote:

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can I have 100 ex I'm a dinosaur
^_^

I only have 99 :(
But I would love to have a dinosaur as my friend!! Can I ride you? :D

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johnKeys wrote:

didn't you see Jurassic Park?
never trust a Dinosaur. especially not a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

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While bothering random people for currency is rude, I understand how he'd want to see if he can't happen to find one of the ultra-rich players that is going to simply let his currency rot away in a stash after the league ends and hope to get some currency out of that player.

I don't see how trolling the guy back isn't fair game, when he's the one going to bother random people.

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deathflower wrote:

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Omga4000 wrote:

There's a HUGE difference between saying you are giving away 100ex, and then not doing it,and being asked by complete stranger to give them 100ex, without knowing him, without you saying anything about it at all. Just just pathetic and rude to be honest :)

So it is ok to troll this one guy but trolling global just isn't? They both aren't right, the only difference is severity. Since you say he probably is a new player, he could be coming from a different game environment. In some games, this could be a fairly common occurrence, where higher level players are asked by lower level players for donation.

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can I have 100 ex I'm a dinosaur
^_^

Never hurts to ask!

Why so mad, OP?

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lolozori wrote:

I have given free ex in random sarn few time in past, this is just a game after all and I don t rmt so why not giving something I think is just pixel.

Recently I got those guys asking me stuff about the game and I ended giving them free items.

Few of them kept harassing me every now and then for free level 20 gems, 100 regrets, things like that. Not even a pls or anything, once i gave them an items they think I will provide them everything they ask.

They are in ignore list now because while I think it is ok and fun to help someone, it is rude for them to ask for anything thinking you will provide them shit all the time.

There is this guy that is now top pvp, he sold everything two years ago and came back last month or so. Asked me few shit items and I gave him, then he started to ask me for shit like empower level 4 and kaoms. Looked in his profile when he came back his toon had nothing, 2 weeks later he had leg aegis and 6l coil.

Some of those guys are professional beggars and if they can t get what they want they rmt.

I still give free shit but much less than before, I find there is more and more rude people thinking once you give them an apple they will take the whole tree from you.

BTW I am not rich got like 3ex now in standard after playing since 2013, max I even owned in my stash was like 50ex.

TO me giving is fun even if I have not much. I wish Rich people of POE would share stuff too sometime, It is just a game. If i was rich like ventor I would give free ex every Xmas to level 1 players lol.

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DoubleU wrote:

I ran into many so-called professional beggars in WoW, just /ignore and move on.

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Charanjaydemyr wrote:

I'm just really impressed by the censorship effort and the convenient addition of 'him' and 'me' tags. I mean, it doesn't really negate the pettiness of it all...if anything, it sort of punctuates it.

This is clearly someone who would have a field day if we could get transcripts of all the conversations we have in real life.

Moral to the story: if you're begging for inordinate amounts of currency, find someone else if they don't have it over quick fucking smart.

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Bars wrote:

About professional beggars: they sound like amateurs. The way I would go about it would be to find someone who lists high-end items at low prices (therefore they are wealthy but not overly mercantile) and pose as a completely overwhelmed and hapless beginner. "Hey, could I possibly give you something else for this 5 chaos item you listed? Whatever you say, I just really need it :(; By the way, I saw these amazing items in your shop - how am I supposed to farm 20 exalts? Been playing for 2 weeks and didn't see a single exalt, only got a few chaos orb drops, these prices look really depressing but you seem like a cool guy, so they are actually fair - could you help me with some advice? I saw this cool guide and it says "noob friendly" but requires so many exalts :( - just wanna play with my boyfriend but he doesn't want to party with me because I can't run high level maps and slow him down :(" etc. etc. *sad puppy eyes*


I should have done this to OP, received some generous donations and then said "10x bro, can you give me 100ex more?"

...too lazy to pull it off but the image brings a smile to my face

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Boem wrote:

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Omga4000 wrote:

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can I have 100 ex I'm a dinosaur
^_^

I only have 99 :(
But I would love to have a dinosaur as my friend!! Can I ride you? :D

Teeeheeee

Peace,

-Boem-

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Omga4000 wrote:

"... Wanna slow him down"
Ok, got it. I will give it a test and report back master! :D

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Fightgarr wrote:

You called his bluff, so he called yours in retaliation. This is one of the most basic trolling scenarios.

Ultimately you lost though, since you wrote him a sincere, 3-line PM (this provides the troll enough sustenance for many days). And then you made this forum post about it, immortalizing his successful trolling for all eternity!

The proper anti-trolling technique would have been to invite him, then ignore him for 1 or 2 minutes at a time, occasionally posting a "your ho" / "my ho" message to keep his hopes up. But nothing more.

It takes practice to effectively combat trolls but you'll learn eventually (or be completely devoured by them, whichever comes first).

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An alternative method would be to say "My HO.", then, when he enters it, say "I'm getting my exalt mule character, just wait a sec, then go play a character in another league.

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Bars wrote:

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Omga4000 wrote:

"... Wanna slow him down"
Ok, got it. I will give it a test and report back master! :D

Now that was an unexpected but not unwelcome leap of imagination.

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The correct way to handle this situation is as follows:
1) Ask if equivalent currency is ok.
1) Open trade window.
2) Place ten scraps of wisdom in the window (the vendor price of ten stacks of exalts)
3) Enjoy the reaction.