What is up with these people...

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You know, the level 84 character who comes in, asks you to come to town, drops a bunch of uber equipment, and demands a trade.  Trading uber equipment with a level 11 paladin?  What the hell?

EVERYONE in public bnet twinks the s*** out of their characters, so thus there ARE level 11's running around with unique elites and high lvl runes and such, so everyone just assumes everyone else does this so they join whatever games there are to see if they can find (random item) for their (random build).

So, I'm up in Harrogath or something, and a level 4 character comes and startings spamming things like, "rush plz," "give itamz," or "needt wp."

Leeches, they try to piggyback off of the first type of lameo, and most of them succeed assuming they find the first type of lameo. One and the same actually "Me rush you, you rush me". People are very lazy, you might have noticed that only about 1% actually bother going through the beginning/middle of act 3, its just easier to get someone to give you Travincalwp, kill the council, and have them give you Durance2wp.

The third type of crazy person would be a high level dude I just met a few minutes ago.  He came into my game where I was doing the Act I NM quests, found me and proceeded to slaughter every monster in a 3-Act radius, then asked me to come to town, opened up the trade screen, put all of his equipment in there--most of which was probably obtained illegally--said, "bin... dego tish waht u need," then closed the trade window. 

Jerk-class. They are better (at killing) than you, they know they are better than you, and they make sure YOU know that they are better than you. Its how they get their jollies.

Of course, he then proceeded to ask me what my ranking was, going about how I 'mus be nuub' that I didn't know that non-ladder characters had rankings.  He said that you put in some funky code with your account name and password and it'll tell you your rank. 

Super-jerk class. The "funky code" of which you speak probably is a whisper to his friend/bot that collects you name-pass which he then uses to open your acount and loot your char/hack get you banned. There are no non-ladder ranks, hence NON-ladder. They goad you into thinking your stupid or whatever so you give in, or they pique your curiosity so that you WANT to know what your rank is.
Don't ever type your password into anything but the log in window, good boy.

This would be the 'inept PK' type.  This is the guy who comes in, hostiles me, can't seem to find me--even after I tp up to town--and then leaves... only to come back a few minutes later and repeat the whole thing.  The last guy was in the same game as the crazy rank person.  He left and came back something like 4 times. 

Moron-class, ignore as best you can, or make a new/private game.


Survival guide for those who insist on playing on public B.net (i.e. non-lurker friendly)
Find someone who isn't a total outright jerk, ignore how much they twink, ignore how much they abuse the system. You may want to leave "heavy rushers" off of your list depending on what difficulty/act you are in. When/If you find a person like this make friends, get they on your friends list so you can find them again next time you play.
Grarrrg plays on public, Grarrrg puts up with a lot of stuff. Grarrrg also doesn't play that much or at regular times. Currently re-hooked on Heroes of Might and Magic 3 for about the thousanth time.