griefer

It's a dick move to be a griefer / enable grifers to a bunch of nice people.

Now it just means being an online griefer.

On the other hand you have vicious griefer groups which stalk memorial pages like hacker groups do old Joomla installs.

A looter and griefer is a valid profession in the game just like in the real world there exists professional hitmen.

In minecraft, you need a pretty high defender:griefer ratio to keep things intact.

Not sure if I'm getting downvoted because I was a looter/griefer or because of my blunt question.

But it also gives the griefer a power trip in exchange for behavior that would be pretty anti-social if applied in the real world.

The cosmic griefer sounds like a pGF problem, not an fGF problem.

I'll also say that my favorite tactic was often labeled a griefer tactic although I'll still vehemently disagree with that assessment.

Could you spin up a griefer instance of the MUD?

It certainly seems like they had every opportunity to ban him, but chose not to, which implies that it's not quite as simple as the griefer explanation.

I don't believe you ever want to take into account someone's griefer vote, too much potential to game the system with no benefit to the group as a whole.

He presumed those things because the terms you used, “looter and griefer”, actually mean exactly those things.

But that doesn't matter, the difference between a griefer, a "useful idiot" and a propagandist is minimal: You're a complete waste of time, at best.

This makes sense to me, since pre-Trammel UO was a griefer paradise, as you hinted at with your "for fear of using it" comment.

IMO "griefer" has a pretty defined meaning and implies a player who is going out of their way to be a jerk and, well, cause grief.

Griefer votes are hard to do in Condorcet.