Originally posted by KONG1
I feel sort of silly posting the glaringly obvious but
You guys are doing exactly what Liam wants you to, you are all being pwned by Liam.
Psych 101. He likes the attention. Liam could up from different base after a few vulches but doesnt. hmmmmlets think about this.duhhh. 3 guys vulch him for 10 minutes, thats 10 minutes of attention for Liam. Look at all the attention hes getting in this thread.
Kong, I understand exactly what you are saying, and to a degree it does play into his need for attention. But frankly, I don't give a damn. He also had a need to fly his airplane so he can do what he really likes, which is screwing with everyone else's fun.
Yes, he got attention, but after the first 5 or so minutes it was not the kind of attention he really wanted. He whined, threatened, and baited everyone in an effort to get back into the air. Eventually, he just left which, given such a person does not change his behavior, is exactly what I want at that point. No more Liam, and the rest of us enjoyed the evening in the DA. Also haven't seen him in there today. People do many bad things to get attention, but you don't let them get away with it simply because it feeds that need. You give him the kind of attention that he will come to hate and will change his behavior. In this case, the change of behavior was him wanting to stay in the DA. Someday, maybe (but I seriously doubt it) he'll change his ways and leave people alone when the don't want to be screwed with.
So, I'll restate my response choices to Liam's action of the past three days.
1. try to ignore him, but continue to get shot down while dueling someone else, get vulched off the runway, and generally have my evening ruined and my blood pressure explode. All the while, he is still enjoying the hell out of it whether I react or not.
2. Leave the DA where I and my friends are playing and have every right to expect an enjoyable environment to play in. Believe me, that will never happen. I will never give up my space and my rights to anyone who behaves that way. To me THAT is running away like a coward. To have someone chase you out of the DA with bad behavior is completely unconscionable. To paraphrase, "for bad people to do evil, good people must do nothing"
3. Take some action to resolve the situation in the most favorable way, which in this case, really leaves only responding in kind to the point of overwhelming him with the hope that a reasonable person will realize his mistake and change his behavior, but in the lessor objective, stop his disruption any way I can.
I chose #3 and will always choose it. I try to be reasonable first and I will assume alot of grief before I react, but once I do, I never back down. I know that, if you look at it in black and white, I am in the right and he is not.
