griefer
n.— «Being your standard UO griefer, he laughed at us and refused to return it, and there was quite a long standoff. Fortunately, this was a newbie griefer, and said he would sell me the 1600 wood back for 500 gold. Of course, upon handing over the 500, he wouldn’t drop the wood, so several people paged GMs. About a minute later poof someone appears asking where the scammer is. Of course by then we had told him that we had paged the GMs, so the griefer handed over the wood.» —“Re: Scamming” by Ian A. Kelley Usenet: rec.games.computer.ultima.online Aug. 14, 2000. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
David from Plymouth, Wisconsin, wonders about the expression a cord of wood. The phrase goes back to the 17th century and has to do with using a cord to measure a specific quantity of stacked wood. This is part of a complete episode.
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