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Posted: Sep 18th 2011 8:39AM Pingles said

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A kid in an MMO had asked for help in General Chat with a beginners quest so I helped him. From then on he was dogging me for help. It was non-stop for days he was sending tells asking for this and that. I eventually complained to a buddy about it but sent the tell to the pest.

Worked out okay but that moment when I saw where the tell went was such a soul-drainer.

Posted: Sep 19th 2011 12:18PM happyfish said

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@Pingles I did this the other day, but in guild chat. Felt terrible about it because he was a guild member. He is annoying as heck, but I dont like trash talking other players (at least not very often).
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Posted: Sep 18th 2011 9:02AM Bartas said

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I had ticket pending in WoW once, and while waiting for GM to respond, I was arguing with my friend about RL things throught whispers. He insulted me at some point, so I finished 2 mobs I was fighting atm, pressed R and typed "fu*k you". Didn't noticed that whisper from GM which showed up on screen just second before I started typing :)

GM responted witch "Is this all you have to say?"
And I was like "O F***" :)

Happens

Posted: Sep 18th 2011 9:11AM Bartas said

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Eh, and mistyped few words in above comment....

Posted: Sep 18th 2011 9:13AM Audacious said

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Fair warning that this one's mildly NSWF.

It's not my personal worst tell, but way back when I used to play WoW, just after I'd transferred to an RP server, coincidentally, our tank happily informed the party that "This game is really hard to play while masturbating."

The rest of the mercifully short dungeon run was really awkward after that.

Posted: Sep 18th 2011 9:15AM Audacious said

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@Audacious

forgot to add, he was apparently talking to someone else in game while saying that. While talking our group. And presumably doing what he was claiming to of been doing, so I'll give this much to the guy: he could really multitask.
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Posted: Sep 18th 2011 6:44PM Shirogetsune said

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@Audacious

The group should have informed him as to the true meaning of the "tank and spank" encounter. Obviously, he's doing it wrong.
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Posted: Sep 18th 2011 9:24AM Irem said

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Sadly I don't have any horrible MTs to report that came from me (I'm sure my time is coming), but once a friend of mine in FFXI asked me to make her some "incest paste" (insect paste) in LS chat. It was my roommate's forum sig for a while. We also had a really awkward moment when another LSmate accidentally sent a line of explicit cybering text to LS chat...and their spouse wasn't online.

Good times. I think the worst I've done is get confused by GW's chat system and accidentally type something I wanted to say locally in the trade channel--I don't use it much, so it's still something of a mystery. XD

Posted: Sep 18th 2011 9:56AM JohnD212 said

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Trying to tell someone to "put it"... I typed "pu tit" and everyone asked me over and over "what type of tit?" ... LOL

Posted: Sep 18th 2011 10:02AM Enaris said

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My worst go back to my days as a Supergroup officer in City of Heroes. We had two chat channels, one for the officers, and one for the main group. You can see how that will create occasional havoc.

Our group could be fairly particular on admissions. We had a theme, and it was important to us that new characters (even alts of existing members) fit that theme. So once, a member was applying a new alt, and one of the other officers asked me what I thought of it (in the officers channel). I then proceeded to say exactly what I thought of said application (let's just say... I found it lacking)... of course into the main group channel. With that player in the channel at the the time.

Oops.

Posted: Sep 18th 2011 10:07AM Seffrid said

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My worst mistype was an intended private tell sent globally in a MUD, and no, I don't intend to repeat it here...

It was entirely clean but embarrassing enough the first time!

Posted: Sep 18th 2011 10:11AM Tizmah said

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"Gimme a sex" is about all I ever get.

Posted: Sep 18th 2011 10:12AM eLdritchZ said

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Back in Vanilla, when I was fairly, well, "prominent" on my WoW server I was whispering with a guildmate who had become a good friend of mine while offering my Alchemy in Stormwind. I wanted to whisper her my cell phone number and instead posted it to Stormwind.... during prime time... Shortly after, I aquired a new cell number :P

Another time we fooled around in /gu trying to come up with funny online handles... I was once again peddling my goods in Stormwind and announced that "I like Juicy_Ferret_Buttocks" :P

stuff like that happens a lot to me ._.

Posted: Sep 18th 2011 10:16AM Wispur said

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Any time I mean something for officer chat and accidentally type it in guild chat, that usually goes bad pretty quick.

Posted: Sep 18th 2011 10:51AM Melinoe said

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This is why I color my chat channels.

Posted: Sep 18th 2011 11:35AM Bramen said

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I was venting about guild drama to a close friend of mine. I sent it to the guild leader by mistake.
It is amazing the speed with which a person can remove someone from a guild...

Posted: Sep 18th 2011 12:10PM Janitor said

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telling my girlfriend how much i enjoyed a "sexual favor" for the first time and realizing i messaged some preteen, female, who i gave a port for. very embaresssed.

Posted: Sep 18th 2011 1:12PM raven7680 said

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Back in Vanilla WoW my hubby and I had Horde toons we played quite often, so often in fact that we started a guild with some real life friends, Well one day he and I were questing together while engaging in some playful RP between our characters (I played a female Orc shaman and he played a male Troll priest). I thought I was typing in party chat but instead I said "You know you like my sexy Orc butt." in zone chat and pretty much wanted to log out and hide under a rock. He along with the rest of our guildmates were laughing their asses off while I was beet red with embarassment. The incident became a running joke for quite a long time. Needless to say after that I learned to color code my chat so that would never happen again...LOL!

Posted: Sep 18th 2011 1:54PM vaiden said

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In eq1 I remember a few times getting stuck with game deva's doing a mt into group chat about how "lousy this person in the group is " .
Odd how when that happens they usually went ld within seconds.
If I was the leader I would ask the group if we should just kick them.
most of the time it was a yes.

Posted: Sep 18th 2011 2:03PM drunkingamebar said

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Actually I spell like crap, so I just deal with it. But one thing I do that is embarrassing is if I am using chat and talking on the phone or to the kids, I type bits of what I am talking about within the text of the chat. Another thing I did, as well as a lot of my guild members is use the "Push to talk button" for Vent when answering the phone or talking to some one else.

"Push to talk" followed by "I love you too babe" gets a lot of "???" in guild/raid/party chat.

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