Well, I don't honestly think that most people on these servers are stupid or abusive. It's just that the ones who are tend to have the loudest mouths and biggest presence. They are the ones you notice and tend to remember. The nice, friendly, helpful people are basically powerless to deal with these nincompoops. They try to avoid them, and in the process ignore all "noobs." What I usually find is a culture of three main camps--"lifers," "griefers," and "noobs." None of these camps gets along with the rest; they are all opposed to each other's presence on a server. Since I don't want to dedicate my life to a game, I am locked in the "noob" camp. Here we find people who are either learning the game or are just too young or stupid to grasp it and are forever locked in this category. What I don't find is the sort of rich interactions Adamyntr experienced in UO.

At any rate, I don't want to go into a game to be yelled out by anyone, whether that person is a griefer or a lifer. I am only there to have fun, and not to prove anything.