User blog comment:LovingKate/Lost Interest/@comment-99.240.70.142-20130831162954/@comment-1906486-20130831214418

You can easily counter that with, playing with trusted friends for the most part. Say screw it all, by mostly hanging out with them if possible. Obviously it's going to be different for everyone, but I don't really find it's that bad. Could be just my popularity from before, that people kinda remember me. :P

Also I just try frequenting rooms with higher ranked players, play for fun and don't actually try being the top badass. If you take it too seriously then it becomes a nightmare, you can't enjoy what you want and then your interest drops dramatically. Which is how it became for me, except hackers were the basic bane of everyone's existance.

Hang out with friends who have an E-Mod or such if you don't, so you don't end up dealing with morons ruining your game. Something that might put you at ease, but also don't do the rage abuse because you're losing. It makes you a poor sport, and people really don't wish to stick around. Problem I honestly find is, everyone tries to team stack with the mod.