Editing Griefer (section)

==History==
The term "griefing" was applied to online multiplayer video games by the year 2000 or earlier, as illustrated by postings to the rec.games.computer.ultima.online [[USENET]] group.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.computer.ultima.online/browse_thread/thread/3b2d9d518a897eb3/69071ae29e5b7921?lnk=st&q=ultima+griefer&rnum=155&hl=en#69071ae29e5b7921|title=Google Groups: August 14, 2000 rec.games.computer.ultima.online|access-date=16 June 2015}}</ref> The player is said to cause "grief" in the sense of "giving someone grief".{{fact|date=June 2023}}

The term "griefing" dates to the late 1990s, when it was used to describe the willfully [[Anti-social behaviour|antisocial behaviors]] seen in early [[massively multiplayer online game]]s like ''[[Ultima Online]],'' and later, in the 2000s, first-person shooters such as ''[[Counter-Strike]]''. Even before it had a name, griefer-like behavior was familiar in the virtual worlds of text-based [[Multi-user dungeon|Multi-User Domains]] (MUDs), where joyriding invaders inflicted "virtual rape" and similar offenses on the local populace.<ref name="wired magazine">{{cite magazine|last=Dibbell|first=Julian|title=Mutilated Furries, Flying Phalluses: Put the Blame on Griefers, the Sociopaths of the Virtual World|magazine=Wired|url=https://www.wired.com/gaming/virtualworlds/magazine/16-02/mf_goons?currentPage=2|publisher=[[WIRED]] magazine|access-date=18 May 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110508211328/http://www.wired.com/gaming/virtualworlds/magazine/16-02/mf_goons?currentPage=1|archive-date=8 May 2011|date=18 January 2008|url-status=live}}</ref> Julian Dibbell's 1993 article "[[A Rape in Cyberspace]]" analyzed the griefing events in a particular MUD, [[LambdaMOO]], and the staff's response.

In the culture of [[massively multiplayer online role-playing game]]s (MMORPGs) in [[Taiwan]], such as ''[[Lineage (video game)|Lineage]]'', griefers are known as "white-eyed"—a metaphor meaning that their eyes have no pupils and so they look without seeing. Behaviors other than griefing that can cause players to be stigmatized as "white-eyed" include cursing, cheating, stealing, or unreasonable killing.<ref>{{citation|chapter="White-Eyed" and "Griefer" Player Culture: Deviance Construction in MMORPGs|author1=Holin Lin|author2=Chuen-Tsai Sun|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WykINIyYSb0C&pg=PA106|pages=106 et seq|title=Worlds in Play: International Perspectives on Digital Games Research|year=2007|publisher=Peter Lang |isbn=9780820486437}}</ref>