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Griefing is the term used in online games, usually the Massively Multiplayer variety, that refers to the act players take for the sole purpose of discomforting other users. Such actions include kill stealing, Player Killing, stealing dropped items from a kill or during inventory reorganization or a mistake, harassment, and just about any other mean that would annoy another player.
In Furcadia and other online games, griefers are often referred to as twinks. This slang term, derived from Twinkie, refers to players who use methods in the game to artificially increase their characters abilities/equipment (for instance, a beginning player wielding a sword that can only be gotten by slaying the most powerful monsters). The term doesn't directly relate to the gay slang usage, but is intended to be similarly derisive. Furcadia's official website has an entire page devoted to explaining twinkishness in Furcadia (http://www.furcadia.com/roleplay/twink.html) specifically, most of which applies to griefing in general.
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