When asking for a port

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Originally Posted by Lhancelot [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

In the past I used to troll them if I was feeling a bit cheery, but that usually lead to them getting angry so I don't do that anymore.

I would send the porter a tell every 20 secs to interrupt their tells from others needing ports, I'd prod them to come get me, where I was at, how long I had to get to point B, how much longer did I have to wait, I did this until they either got me or ignored me.

Had one porter who got really angry when I did this once, and I felt bad because he was legitimately frustrated and agitated as he was busy and I was being a dickling to him. He chided me as politely as he could, warned me he was going to cancel my port if I kept pestering him, and sure enough he canceled my trip and put me on ignore.

So some of them do not have much of a sense of humor and/or take their porting very seriously.

Just as all humans go, everyone is different and so is each DAP porter. Each one has different thresholds of how much dicking they can take too.

That being said, this guy sounds like he is unreasonably agitated by people simply trying to be friendly and polite to him.

#porting_is_serious_business_2017

You keep those scurvy dogs off my boats or I'll keel-haul'em & swap the poop deck with their guts