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A rage quit is when a player in sports or video gaming is too angry to continue playing a game and usually leaves before the end of the game or after a match. If it's the latter, the player may then throw or smash their controller/keyboard in response to their "rage" to the point where it is broken and unusable.
A typical rage quit occurs as follows:
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retired}}
template on his user page and stops editing forever;{{
retired}}
template on his user page, keeps complaining, but eventually gets over it; or,This is by no means the only progression or situation, but one of several. For instance, the topic might not be over Sally's behavior but over a particular policy or guideline.
Much like a legal threat, an editor may simply make a rage-quit threat (RQT) in hopes of using it as trump card to win an argument. However, this is frequently unsuccessful due to its highly coercive nature and typically results in embarrassment when people refuse to completely acquiesce to the quit threatener's demands. This leaves the threatener in an awkward position of trying to save face and leaves everyone else involved in the dispute with the task of trying to ameliorate the heightened anxiety and fundamental anger experienced by the threatener. This can even result in a backfire effect, whereby the perceived hostility of the threatener, alone, puts them at-odds with achieving their intended outcome.
Several preferable alternatives exist that avoid rage quits.
According to leading psychologists who have studied the phenomenon on the Planet Vulcan, there are five stages to a Wikipedia "rage quit" episode: [1]
This is a
humorous
essay. It contains the advice or opinions of one or more Wikipedia contributors and is made to be humorous. This page is not one of
Wikipedia's policies or guidelines, as it has not been
thoroughly vetted by the community. Some essays represent widespread norms; others only represent minority viewpoints. This essay isn't meant to be taken seriously. |
A rage quit is when a player in sports or video gaming is too angry to continue playing a game and usually leaves before the end of the game or after a match. If it's the latter, the player may then throw or smash their controller/keyboard in response to their "rage" to the point where it is broken and unusable.
A typical rage quit occurs as follows:
{{
retired}}
template on his user page and stops editing forever;{{
retired}}
template on his user page, keeps complaining, but eventually gets over it; or,This is by no means the only progression or situation, but one of several. For instance, the topic might not be over Sally's behavior but over a particular policy or guideline.
Much like a legal threat, an editor may simply make a rage-quit threat (RQT) in hopes of using it as trump card to win an argument. However, this is frequently unsuccessful due to its highly coercive nature and typically results in embarrassment when people refuse to completely acquiesce to the quit threatener's demands. This leaves the threatener in an awkward position of trying to save face and leaves everyone else involved in the dispute with the task of trying to ameliorate the heightened anxiety and fundamental anger experienced by the threatener. This can even result in a backfire effect, whereby the perceived hostility of the threatener, alone, puts them at-odds with achieving their intended outcome.
Several preferable alternatives exist that avoid rage quits.
According to leading psychologists who have studied the phenomenon on the Planet Vulcan, there are five stages to a Wikipedia "rage quit" episode: [1]