The pain, anguish and disappointment after
a griefing attack is palpable. Most
students would never think of damaging someone else’s work. There are accidents and then there are a very
small minority who will take great pleasure in doing it on purpose.
After extensive work on the parcor park a
group of students were horrified as a ton of molten lava filled their tunnel
destroying everything in its path.
Initially the cry “we have been griefed” went up and accusing eyes went
across the room. The problem was no other teams of students were near the
parcor team. As the disappointment and
angry cleared, common sense prevailed.
One of the team realized they had mined under a lava follow and the
disaster had been cause by their own mining.
The Pig racers were not so lucky. After
building a fence and herding thirty pigs into yard a particular student from
another team knocked a hole in the fence and the pigs got away. Once again there was a level of
disappointment and angry but what was amazing was the resilience shown by the
team. As we the staff dealt with the Griefer,
the students set about building a double fence to help with any other disasters
and herded up the pigs again.
One of the most important outcomes from
this process is watching the teams rise above the antisocial behavior of one
individual and focus back on the task at hand and not on recriminations.
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