Wasup with you people on the whoel inspection thing?Follow

Why do you guys care if someone inspects you? maybe there curious on how you got so much cool stuff or was wondering if you could tell them how to get that weapon you have? some people freak out? in my opinion thats very weird, gay and stupid.

Personally I don't care - I only get mad when people inspect me and ask for money.

They get mad when I respond "no" or "I'm broke" (which I very well maybe after buying all this stuff you see on me) - usually their retort (in exact words) "dude, your rich you could afford it".

So for me at least, its not the act of inspecting me, its the follow up question.

Personally I don't care, but a polite person would ask first. When people beg from me, I just ask if they can give me a few THOUSAND plats cause that's what my spells cost.

What bothers me is people who use the term gay to mean lame. I don't happen to be gay, but I believe all people have feelings so why use a person's sexuality in an insulting way? It only shows insensativity and possible insecurity in a person's own sexuality.

Wondering why some people act this way or that shows you have a lot to learn. It's simple, because everyone is different and has different likes and dislikes. A conciderate person realizes that the things they do can or will have effects on others and tries to do as much as they can to minimize negative results. Asking before inspecting is one way, camp checks are another.

Yes it's a game, but you aren't dealing with NPC's, you're dealing with real people, so treat them like real people. In the real world(if such garb were worn in the real world) you wouldn't just brush aside someone's cloak to see the sword they have at their side, you'd ask.

In the future, assume people will act negatively to any action you might take and try to think of the best way to get a positive result. (Yes, even on silly things. I had someone yell at a cleric I had for healing them in a fight because they wanted to work up their bandaging skill, so you REALLY never know!!)

well here is a lesson in real life.
If a group of people think an action of yours is bad manners, THEN TO THEM IT IS. Posting here to say "whats up with them" is pointless.

Do you want to run the risk of annoying people? Then inspect away... BUT DONT ACT ALL SUPRISED IF YOU ANNOY SOMEONE.

Do you want to be known as someone with nice manners? A person others would like to group with? THEN ASK FIRST. It actually doesnt matter what you think about this.. all that matters is what OTHERS think.

It is all about manners and etiquette, personally I don't mind being inspected as long as there is no follow up questions, especially begging ones.
On a side not my brother is gay and I find it offensive that people use the term to describe something bad. These people are basically homophobics who probably are raceist as well, with a banner of the swaztica (spelling?) above the bed and who go to a meeting every so often where they burn crosses and wear pillow-cases on their heads. Grow up.

ok sorry guys about putting the whole "gay" term, my bad.

Don't think it will be too difficult to type out "May I inspect you please?"...5 words, 20 letters, 3 spaces, 1 question mark. It is just plain manners.

Who cares if the term gay was used to mean lame. In the fifties it meant happy. In the eighties it meant homosexual. Now it can mean either of them or it can mean lame or stupid, as was the case here. Unlike dead languages such as Latin and Aramaic, English words continue to evolve. Stop being offended at everything.

On the topic at hand, just tell folks if they get mad how to turn off their inspect messages. I like being inspected - it means that my equipment looks interesting, which is one of my main goals in playing. If somebody wants to inspect me and then beg me for cash that's fine too. I still have an ignore list, and those that beg seriously don't tend to stay around long.

At least I would not look for the label ;-)

It didn't even occur to me that it might be considered rude to inspect people until people started asking me if they could inspect me.
I turned off inspecting other people just because it was annoying to have the inspect window come up accidently when I was trying to open a corpse or something.
I don't care if I get inspected.
If you inspect somebody and that's all you do and they complain that you are rude, I think they are the rude one. It's no imposition on them to be inspected. Begging and inspecting are totally different. Just because some people might beg for stuff after inspecting doesn't make the act of inspecting rude. Maybe it's a higher level of your class and you want to see what kind of equipment you should be trying to acquire. That seems a perfectly valid reason to inspect to me. A follow up question asking them how they acquired a certain item doesn't seem rude to me either. If people don't want to be social I would suggest they play solitaire.

I generally keep inspect off. But those times I am twinking someone and turn it on to see what they need, I inevidibly forget to turn it back off...upon inspecting someone I usually just say "OH Pardon me, nice thongs btw" and turn it back off.

Generally, the only people I run into that get pissy about being inspected are uber twinks <level 2 BL with a PSC> and people who should have been able to get better gear by now but are too embarassed to ask when they dont know where or how to farm. <Level 65 monk carrying a wu's trance stick and wearing an orc fang earring>

This would also go for being asked for permission to inspect.
I once asked a Bl if she might link the interesting 1hb's she was carrying to which she replied ********** no **** off!" this was little beyond rude and I couldn't help but link my waning light and reply, "Ah too bad, I'm leaving EQ for good and wanted to know if this would be better than what you have...np...good luck" As I camped I got replies of "No WAIT, WAIT!" <<<inforgivably mean i agree but I couldnt resist responding to her unwarrented nastiness>>>

The whole thing boils down to be polite...respect the fact that some people don't like having their underwear fondled by strangers...most don't care...just ask first anyway..and if someone asks you for permission to take an unwanted peek there is no need to be rude...a simple "No" will suffice.

Edited, Tue Mar 23 14:51:45 2004 by plick

Let's see, people who are gay care, people who have gay friends and/or family care, and people who don't like seeing anyone's race or sexual preferences used in derogatory ways care. Accepting the word gay to mean lame is the SAME as is being okay to say "He was selling the book for $5, but I "jewwed" him down to $3." It's wrong and NOT a natural evolution of the English language. It's insulting and racist and if you can't tell the difference, that says something about you.

Unfortunately people are using the term gay in a derogatory mannor, just like some people in certain areas use the term Jew to mean cheap, but that's doesn't mean it's right or acceptable.

It's not that people are offended about everything, it's that many or most people are mature enough to be sensative about the feelings of other people. Which is a really what this entire post is about to begin with. It's also about people who don't think about anyone else's feelings when they do things and why they end up getting the reactions they get!

Edited, Mon Mar 8 20:11:52 2004 by KerikDaven

Dude, your post is pretty gay.