[marcus_holmes]

Griefers. Some people get enjoyment from hurting/annoying others.

First time I bumped into this was in the DAOC MMORPG. Some players were deliberately annoying others, to the point of "wasting" their online time doing stupid shit that annoyed people. It really shocked me.

Thing is, there's lots of griefers in any online game. Which means there's lots of people out there in the real world who would do this if they could get away with it. Anonymity allows them to do this online with very little repercussion, so it shows how many there really are. But now every time I do an interview, or look at a rental, I'm thinking "is this person a griefer? are they going to enjoy making my life a misery?"