Some things never cease to surprise me. Specifically this week I had to use the blacklist feature on PSN for someone. Nothing too dramatic, more that I suddenly have more respect for the phrase "cannot take a hint," now.
To explain, I play female characters in fighting games. Chun Li was my first favorite character since the original SF2, and since I've picked up other females as mains, like Sakura, and Ibuki.. I pick my icons and titles to keep with this theme too , but I don't go out of my way to make my gender "fuzzy," or anything. Sure I get asked if I'm a girl from time to time, but this guy would not let it go, even after I'd explicitly told him "no I'm not a chick," yet the friend requests and same reply of "Are u a female?" kept coming. I don't know how many messages I deleted, but it was a sizable amount of time and spam. To make things worse when I initially tried to add him to the blacklist I would keep getting an error. When I finally did call PSN support that weekend, the blacklist added him no problem, go figure.
I'm not one to advise on where people should go to meet up for relationship potentials, however I really think the last place anyone should start looking is over the gaming console network. What really surprised me was the fervor that the messages would come in with. Deleting them when they came in was like whack-a-mole. Initially I thought it was lag or some network problem, but after I deleted the friend request and another came in right after, there was no network issues, and this guy was just determined to hit the blacklist. I guess despite his given age of 21 he hasn't seen The rules of the Internet, (rule 30). In that case welcome to the Internet, here's your blacklisting.
