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| 19 Jun 2013 10:50 PM |
We all know Guests, they appear in places and don't say much. The reason for this is that these guys are new players, testing out ROBLOX before they start. They don't know how to use SafeChat at first. Something I think we should all think about when they come into a game is how have they been treated so far? In the following story, I will explain all about my experiences with Guests, and how people have treated them.
August 9th, 2010. I joined ROBLOX and I went to my first game, build a house and hang out. I joined the game and there were other people building. I looked at them, and they seemed like they knew a lot about ROBLOX and they seemed experienced. So I went up to them and asked "How do you guys use these tools?" They ignored me. I guess I just had to figure it out by myself. So I started testing the tools, making a small house. Then, suddenly, the guys I asked before started deleting my test building. I got kind of sad, watching it being destroyed. Then I looked over at the far point of the map. There was a guy, building a house. After they deleted my house, they went over and started deleting his. I thought to myself "Why are they doing this? This is a building game, we are supposed to build in peace." They were calling the guy a "Noob" and a "Guest Noob". After they left him, he started building again in a new spot. I went over to join him, because it seemed he was a guy who likes to build. I asked him a question. I said "Hey, why are they deleting out stuff?" No reply. I asked the question again "Hey, why did they destroy our stuff?" Again, no reply. After a while a guy from the server, one of the deleters, said "Oh, he is a Guest. He can't talk. He can only use SafeChat, which is really sad to me." So then I saw a little chat bubble on the top. At the time I thought this was just another way to talk, but then I saw pre-made questions and answers. I clicked "Hello". The Guest responded with "Hi". I started a little SafeChat talk with him, saying his building was "10 out of 10!". He smiled at that with the ":-)" answer. We started building. By the time we were done, he said "Friend". I sort of thought about this for a bit, my first friend on ROBLOX. This was big! Before I came into the game, I looked around the site a bit. I remember seeing a place to add people. So I went and typed in his name. There was no result. I tried it again, but again nothing happened. A few moments later he left the game. I tried to remember his name, and when I did I wrote it down. And with that, I left to go eat dinner.
After dinner, I sat back down and typed in his name again. No results. I went to Google, and typed in "In ROBLOX, why can't I add certain people?" The result had a little page, that in a short form said "The only people you can't add as friends are Guest's and deleted users/banned users." I then saw it. I could not add him. It was really sad, my first friend on ROBLOX gone. After that, I left ROBLOX for a few months.
A few months later, I logged back in to start playing again. I decided that I wanted to make more friends, so I played. Weeks past and I had about, well, 3 friends. It was not much, but it was guys who I grew a strong bond to. People who I really liked. I went into a game, wanting to build, when I saw something heart breaking. I saw a Guest being bullied again. I remembered what happened a few months back, how a Guest got bullied by a bunch of guys. The same was happening, deleting, but something else was happening. They started killing him. They would spawn camp him and just keep killing him. I walked up to them and asked them to go away. They said "Ugghh, fine. It's just a Guest, anyway". They walked away, leaving him alone. He walked to the far end of the map where no one was and started building. I went over to him and started helping. He kept building, but then noticed I was there. He did the smile emoticon ":-)" and kept building. We made a simple house, not big but a good size. We went in and started building accessories. In the end, we had a nice house. We were happy. When suddenly, we heard the sound of booms. We saw that our house was being destroyed. Before the Guest left, he said "Friend", and left. I left a few minutes later, as well. After that, I left ROBLOX again. I don't like it when people get bullied online.
I came on about two years later, and started writing about Guests. I wanted to spread the word that Guests should not be bullied. It's really upsetting to see, Guests being bullied. Being bullied is one of the worst things that can happen to you online and in real life. It's sad when anyone is bullied. I've seen girls get bullied on this website, kids, lot's of people in my time on ROBLOX. I just like to spread the word. I like to help make people feel good. And I've been bullied in real life, and i'm sure some of you readers have been, too. I used to get bullied on my actions, sort of how people get bullied on here as well. People said I was to happy. Which is, odd.
As a final authors note, I want to make clear that this is a story about Guests AND bullying. The bullying part explains the Guest part equally. I made the title a mix of he Guest subject and the Bullying subject. That's really all that needs to be said and explained, bye! ~Plaidheart, 2013. |
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| 19 Jun 2013 10:52 PM |
| I made a late title fix. xD |
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| 19 Jun 2013 10:55 PM |
| Mmm..I need to go play games on ROBLOX again to get new stories. |
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| 19 Jun 2013 10:59 PM |
| Wow, I just started foruming today. First post I have read, and this sort of explains my experience so far. Being bullied and called a Noob. Thanks for writing this, man. 100/100. |
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shadow350
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| 19 Jun 2013 11:01 PM |
@Roblox -> No problem!
@Shadow -> If it is to long, maybe you should go find other things to read. |
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arceus49
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| 19 Jun 2013 11:04 PM |
| Oh, I remember going into games and seeing people bully guests. I agree with Roblox, this story deserves a 100/100. Good job. |
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| 22 Jun 2013 01:37 AM |
add more paragraphs pls it gets confusing when reading |
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| 22 Jun 2013 01:47 AM |
| 10/10 would cry again. My first friend was also a guest. Since I only had safechat back then. qq |
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Jurok
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| 22 Jun 2013 01:51 AM |
Deeply touching story.
I read every bit of this. For once in a very long time this put tears in my eyes.
I do not know what else to say. Was this story real? Or inspiried by anything? |
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| 23 Jun 2013 09:39 PM |
| It was true. I'm thinking back to some of my memories with Guest's. |
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| 23 Jun 2013 09:43 PM |
| Wow dude, thanks for bumping this, I lost track of it. :c |
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| 02 Jul 2013 03:31 PM |
| Bumped again for people who would like to read it. |
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| 02 Jul 2013 03:34 PM |
| I have never hated on Guests nor have I abused them. I let them abuse me in war games such as BF3 when they 23 and 2 with the M4AI. Pretty impressive. |
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| 02 Jul 2013 03:39 PM |
| This is the best, Heart-Warming Story I've seen in YEARS!!!! This deserves a 10000000/ 10000000! Outstanding job! I'll add you as a friend. I hate it when people bully guest like that! I wouldn't do that! |
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