The gaming world is growing as a platform where activities or words of people simply go unnoticed. This prompted Anti-Defamation League-a non-profit organization to track the level of harassment in this domain. To everyone’s surprise, 74% of the online games have suffered from harassment of various kinds. Out of these, one-third of LGBTQ games have faced harassment on the ground of sexual orientation. One-third of black/Africa-American souls have experienced harassment on the field of ethnicity. One-fourth of Latinx and Asian-American have too shared the same fate.

Out of these sufferers, women form the major chunk. They have often got harassed on the gender-basis. Thus 40% of women have claimed the title of being the most vulnerable group. Also, 23% of the people claimed to find a conversation of supremacy of whites over blacks. According to the report, “While this result does not necessarily imply that players were being recruited to join a white supremacist organization in any online game, the prevalence of expressions of white supremacy in online games suggests that this hateful ideology may be normalized in some game subcultures”.

According to the report, publishers are mainly to be blamed for the situation. Toxicity-thriving in the online content does not get much attention from them. As a result, the situation had got worse for the world. Dannie Kelley-Associate Director of ADL shared that large-scale commercial game had those aspects of their platform that were totally unmoderated spaces. For instance: 4chan and 8chan.

Out of the major games, CS: GO, PUBG, League of Legends and Dota 2 top the chart on the parameter of toxicity. On the contrary, Minecraft, World of Warcraft and NBA 2K18 have stolen some shine by setting the field from some positive interaction. So gamers have a plethora of options on their platter. They can assiduously choose their game in order to grab the right part.

For the survey, ADL surveyed around 100 online gamers. The survey questioned them about the approach of publishers dealing with harassment. Also, it asked them to share the incident of bad trolling, hate speech, threats and sexism that took place on the platform during the play or interaction. Finally, they compiled the information and promulgated the facts.

To take on the problem, Kelly came up with the suggestion to establish rating boards like ESRB. This could help the gamers know the ethical standard of the games and kick out those who do not fit in the space of a healthy environment.

The suggestion is indeed effective enough to get its place in the real world. Now, it’s time for the concerned officials to look at its potentials and powers.

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