Jante Law and player psychology : World of Warcraft General Discussions

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Larisa over at Register to unlock hidden link has been posting some really interesting things about psychology and the World of Warcraft lately. The other week she Register to unlock hidden link (along with the folks at Dreambound) about Register to unlock hidden link they play in game, and this week she's got Register to unlock hidden link about something called the Register to unlock hidden link, developed by a Norwegian author for a novel back in the 1930s. You can read the whole idea on her page or over on Wikipedia, but basically it all boils down to one "rule" for Register to unlock hidden link of a community: "Don't think that you are more special than us."

She applies the law to the WoW community at large, and says that without knowing it, comment trolls and those who attack people who differentiate themselves on the forums (including the folks who caused Register to unlock hidden link) are following this law, and attacking those who stick their neck out as different. Personally, I don't know that the "haters" in the community give it that much thought -- most of the time when they do attack others, they do it to try and build themselves up rather than enforce any community standard ("You've won 1,000 AV matches? Big deal, I win in there all the time.").

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Author: SUPPORT@WEBLOGSINC.COM (Mike Schramm)
Category: communitycommunity-standardsdifferentiationenforceforumsjante-lawpersonalitiespink-pigtail-innplayer-psychologyplayersspecialtrollswikipedia
Publish Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:00:00 EST
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