A lot of player skirmishes occur when someone starts posting to their Facebook friends about what an a$s they feel some other player is being to them. That person's Facebook friends are often eager to prove what a good mafia member they are, or to demonstrate their personal skills, or are just bored, and then links start getting posted, and more and more retaliatory attacks start happening.
How many of those attackers ever stop and ask their mafia member
why it all started? Unfortunately, very few, and this can lead to some messy situations. The following is a story of what can happen when people blindly jump into a fight at the behest of petty players.
Shown above is an actual conversation that took place on a Facebook wall last Friday night. The thread was discussing Vegas slots, the ones accessed from a player's Mafia Wars profile. Another player, JB, came into the discussion, but couldn't seem to figure out which slots were being discussed, although it was explained to her not once, but twice.
When JB threw her level out there, as if level has anything to do with Mafia Wars slot machine expertise, MT ignored the barb and attempted a second explanation.
JB didn't like being corrected, apparently, and then went on to question MT's length of game experience, implying that MT didn't know what she was talking about. MT remained polite during this discussion, as you can see, but as you can also see, JB got mad and blocked MT on Facebook.
After getting blocked by JB, MT posted this status message, and a couple comments down, DWB asked her what level was she?? A few comments later, MT answered DWB that she was around level 100.
Check out DWB's response! What an a$s! MT and her other friends were kind of shocked by this, and those that could take him on attacked him. Not so unjustifiable, in my opinion. Had I been strong enough, I would've taken him on too for that!
Despite his royal majesty being too good to keep sub-level 100s as Facebook friends, he neglected to remove MT from his mafia. MT took care of that and sent him packing with a sucker punch. To which, DWB responded by icing her. Kind of asinine, if you think about it, but whatever.
A little while later, MT realized that DWB was still attacking her, and had been robbing her for several minutes by the time she realized it. That's a little bit much; MT thought so, and so did her other Facebook friends, who went to her defense without being asked.
MT was fed up at that point. She had realized that this started with the slot machine conversation with JB - the wife of DWB, as it turns out. So this all boiled down to a woman who couldn't handle having her game lore corrected by a lower level player, and her husband was being a d1ck by proxy.
MT passed DWB's link to a few heavy-hitting friends of hers, and logged out for the night.
DWB didn't like the attention very much. A little less than 36 hours later, DWB posted this status message, claiming that someone had been hitting him for "3 days now". The link he posted was one of MT's primary champions, so we knew full-well that he was blatantly exaggerating the situation.
A little while later, JB demonstrated her exceptional copy/paste skills and also posted the link of MT's friend.
Back on DWB's wall, his Facebook friends were getting involved, too. As you can see, none of them stopped to question his misinformation, they just went to attacking and were bragging about sharing the link with their own friends. You have to wonder, had they known what the real cause of this conflict was, would they have bothered?
The poor dears didn't like it when MT's friend retaliated in kind, but seriously, what did they expect? You jump into a fight and call in your own dogs without even knowing what it's about, don't you think people are going to get ticked?
When they realized that MT had more than one friend, the wife immediately suggested that it was a fake account, and
tells people to report them. Report them for what?? Beating you?? This is irresponsible behavior on her part, not to mention against Facebook's TOS by targeting. I happen to know that the two attackers are definitely not the same person, in fact they live on two different continents, and there's nothing at all that would suggest the conclusion that JB jumped to other than sheer maliciousness.
Then this idiotic situation snowballed even further, when this person decided to call in her clan members, over someone else's fight, without bothering to learn the facts. Something that started with someone being corrected over how slot machines work.
DWB also maliciously and falsely called for reporting and blocking.
DWB was mad enough to send this unprovoked message to MT's friend. He called her fat and ugly and said that her "tatoo" was low life. Really, DWB? Why? Because she beat you hands down and kept on coming when you lied in order to get your friends involved? I dunno, I'm kinda thinking MT's friend isn't the low life here.
A full seven days later, I found the link posted again on DWB's wall. He has, of course, earned himself a permanent spot in the rivals list of MT's friends, by this point.
He's running out of allies, too. He even came and left a comment on the blog earlier today (at least, I'm fairly certain that was good ole DWB), lying to ME about the situation. I happen to know they're not attacking lower levels. DWB is over level 1300, and he brought this business on himself. Or rather, his wife did. They both did.
We've contacted administrators of the clan members who got involved without educating themselves on the conflict; none of them wanted involvement after learning why Mr. & Mrs. B. were getting hit to begin with. He's obviously running out of places to run to if he thinks crying to me and trying to get my admins in "trouble" is going to do any good.
The moral of this long story is: don't shoot first and ask questions later (or never, like this bunch of clowns did) and then get pissed and cry foul when you get hit back. There is always more to the story, and more often than not, there's a lot of bullsh*t that would make you think twice about getting involved, had you bothered to ask. Things like this happen for even less provocation than slot machine info.
The implication is not that you shouldn't help your mafia when they ask for help. After all, that's how this situation is ultimately being resolved, due to the diligence of MT's friends coming to her aid. The problem was that DWB's mafia did the same. They didn't know why he was being attacked, and got involved in a mess between some very determined players. It just pays to learn other sides to the story before you add someone to your rivals list.
And sometimes, just maybe, there might be a reason that your friends are getting whaled on ;)
