Shattered Kingdoms

That's not a problem, Warlord. This "ooc: you MUST GREET ME NOW BECAUSE YOU SAID YOUR NAME!" is [REDACTED]. I remember it came up some time before, and it annoyed me back then, too. Not one word was said to him(loompa) and the first thing he said to Amadeo was an ooc imperative. There was no ic reason for Amadeo to greet him - and greeting is an ic action, not an ooc one.

How do you resolve the fact that you just said "Hi, my name is Bob" in front of a room full of people who all were guaranteed to hear it, yet only the person that you greet knows your name? That makes absolutely no sense.

there's a diffence between say, and sayto.

You sayto jim 'HI, my name is Bob'

and suddenly you HAVE to greed moe larry and shemp too? Screw that.

EDIT: No one's saying moe larry and shemp now won't know Bob's name. Hell, I bet all of the Hammer know who are members of the MC, but do they have the whole MC greeted? No. Just because you know someone's name, does NOT mean you have to have them greeted.

You know their name ICly, and you have all the benefits of that. You can tell people who that (for example) 'average male human' is, you can legitimitely send tells to that 'average male human', because you know his name, but he hasn't ever formally introduced himself to you. That's what a greet is, a formal introduction, it's not just knowing the person's name (like GL said).

Honestly, there's just no point in arguing this. I feel that allowing everyone in a room to know your name when you announce it makes sense while you feel the act of actually greeting people you're having nothing to do with is absurd and I can't argue that point. Greet is insufficient as it stands now and no amount of discussion will change that fact.

That, I can agree with.

At least he knows the difference between a username and an e-mail address.

Anyhow, I think "greet" implies friendliness. You can know who people are without being their friend and having been formally introduced to them.

A lot of people want to greet and know everybody, but sometimes it just doesn't work that way. It's the same in real life.

So this one night I got all dolled up and I went out to the bar. I grabbed my beer and was sipping it when I saw this really hot guy. All these others kept coming up and asking me to dance but I ignored them. Then the guy walked up and asked me to dance. We danced together. I gave him my name and he gave me his while we were dancing.

After the dance he asked me to join him at his table so I did. One of the guys who asked me to dance was there and he offered his hand and told me his name. He greeted me. I just nodded, heard my name from his friend and turned my attention back to the hottie. I didn't bother to greet the friend.


The moral of the story is greeting IMO is acknowledging a person and willingly and freely giving them you name. Just because he has heard my name doesn't mean I'm greeting him because I'm talking to someone else doesn't mean I'm acknowledging him or my name to him. Now it is annoying if I say my name is such-and-such and then don't greet-greet them. That's just kinda annoying but at the same time I know I've had situations where I give my name to someone and then get distracted by other action in the room or tells and don't greet that person.

I base it on if I am focusing my conversation on all people near me or on one person close by.

That's why I usually greet first and then say my name.

Say my name, say my name....er, sorry.