I think everyone who designs a multiplayer game should employ professional griefers, to seek out new and creative ways for players to annoy each other.
It would be like the reformed bank robbers hired by security firms.
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Yeah, people who design games or pretty much any sort of interactive content on the internet should never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever EVER trust random people on the internet not to be assholes, ESPECIALLY when they’re not paying you money to use whatever it is you’re making and thus lose nothing when you ban them. 4chan/Anonymous’ griefing of Habbo Hotel is a perfect example of what happens when you fail to do this.
But yeah, that’s actually an amazingly interesting idea, hiring griefers as game testers.
FINALLY my uncanny ability to be annoying would have a productive outlet