It's Still Begging:
Just a few minutes ago, I have just recieved a trade request and I didn't really remember making any trades with anyone, so I went to check it out.
At first I thought someone was commissioning me to draw their avatar, and I was like "yeah, sure why not? I need the gold anyways". But when I click on it, the titled trade just made me want to smack this idiot against the wall...
Quote:
"friend can i have all your items u didn't use?"
Okay there's a lot of problems with this, but I'll just name a few for now:
1. I am not this person's friend or even associated with him. He's not even my "friend's friend" if you understand what I mean. Heck, I haven't even met or talk to this guy at all. Unless he's learning English and has used the wrong definition when approaching a random person and wanted to use the definition "nearby comrade" or something like that and came up with the word 'friend', then I suppose I can understand that kind of situation.
2. I made it clear in my profile that I do not want any form of begging which, indeed, also includes begging in the form of a trade request. Heck, I don't even beg from people (cause I don't have the time to waste to), so why are you begging from me? I have items/avatars to quest to like MANY other people out there too. And even if I DID have any items I am not using, I SELL them to gain gold for other stuff I WILL be using.
3. Continuing on from #2, if I did have extra items that I don't use/need, I'd already sell them right then and there. Heck, if I even have extra gold I'd saved it for other crap I want. So give it up and stop asking for any!
4. Not really much of an importance but it's picking at me in the back of my retarded brain, but bad grammar. Capitalize your "I"s would ya? And when using the word "you" use "you", and not the letter "u". To also include, this person didn't spell the first word of their username right, and no I will not reveal this user's username for I will get into a whole lot of trouble. Sure, all of you probably think I'm some retard who loves to complain, but that's me; the retard. And besides, these guys are giving something to complan about.
5. Once again, related to #2 and somewhat #3, I don't care it it's in a form of a trade request, it's still begging. I mean for freaken Jeevas, begging defines as "asking for a gift/object out of charity", which also leads to another word called "peddling".
Okay, and now to sort the differences:
-If the person asking you for gold/items/etc for free despite it's shape or form (whether it's in forums/messages/trades/etc), it's begging.
-If the person seems more demanding than asking for items/gold/etc for free, it's still begging, but in a less polite way.
-If the person is demanding with an added threat (ex. "I will delete/freeze your account if you don't give me your ______), then that counts as harassment, which violates the TOS (Terms Of Service).
So to conclude my stupid rant today, stop begging me. Because I don't have any extra things to give you. If I did, then I would have randomly donated to some other person who really need it. And please don't go asking me to "randomly" donate to you, cause I would ignore you. I did not do this rant because I wanted everyone to stop donating to beggars but to strongly define the term begging despite the form and shape it took. That aside, I wrote it to vent off my anger elsewhere rather than waste my own time just commenting and messaging the user, who could fasely accuse me of harassing them with all my angry hate spam.
