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Comment by xenadu02 | Hacker News Reader

Funny that some people commenting on the video immediately claim it is fake. This kind of abuse was extremely common when CS was in perpetual beta and voice chat first started being a thing. There is clearly a subset of online gamers, especially in FPS games, who cross the line from joking/hazing into abuse against anyone with a female name or voice.

I sometimes wonder what makes these people knee-jerk deny such obvious behavior anyone can observe?

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In all likelihood they are not CS players. I played a ton of Overwatch in college and a decent amount of CoD/Halo as a child. There were definitely bad people in voice chat but nowhere near CS levels. I could see other FPS fans thinking this was fake or at least played up.

I've seen people tell other people to kill themselves in dota.

Oh I've seen that and way worse on other MOBAs. My point wasn't that this is acceptable or that the video is fake; it was that people coming from more popular communities with less abuse simply have no idea what is or isn't the norm for other communities. If what they're seeing is outrageously outside their norm, they might not believe it.

That is human nature though. We deny things we know are true if we feel guilty. It is easier to attack that admit.

Sadly we are still at the whims of evolution.

We are all sadly not as evolved as we think we are and more importantly we do not see how our social dynamics rely on certian algorithms.

(this is all my own conjecture based on ny experience in life)

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