Welcome to my, I guess, "rant" page. These are my peeves, my opinions and do not reflect anyone else's, including Zynga - who I think does an amazing job. My Pet Peeves in no particular order are:

Serial attackers - you know what I'm talking about. The Vamps who just keep hitting and hitting, and/or try to bookmark a player for the sole purpose of making their unlife miserable. Stop, just stop. At least stop before you're reported for harrassment, ok? And there is a difference between attacking someone say, 10x and attacking them 100x repeatedly. The first is part of combat, the second is stopping the other player from being able to play the game.

Serial Hit Listers - drive me up the coffin walls. Get attacked once whether you win or lose and it's call the waaaahmbulance, someone attacked me. I'm gonna HL you, so there. Get a grip. The game isn't called Vampire WARS for nothing. Don't want to battle? Find another game. I don't play by the unwritten 3 attack rule, and while I wouldn't try to tell anyone in my clan how to play, I do try to do what I can to quash this unwritten annoying play by my 3 attack rule or else. It's actually imho a form of bullying, trying to make someone play YOUR way. I know, everyone plays different. All bets are off if I'm attacking from the Hit List. That's different. And sometimes the site does its glitch thing, you hit Retry (bad idea in general) OR your Browser Back button (don't do this in Combat!) and end up Attacking the same opponent for every time you've hit Retry! Go to their Wall and just say like "sorry, the site glitched, I did not mean to attack you 9x" or whatever the number is. Why do I do this? because I don't want a rep as a serial attacker - cause normally I'm not!

Zombie'd Hit Listers - You know who you are if you're reading this, and many of us know at least some of you. Yes, you're known! NO, you're not popular. Most of the rest of us think you need to uninstall the app and seriously consider professional help if your life is that awful. I'm talking about the smallish group of people who aren't really here to play the game, but to make life miserable for the rest of us. You get attacked - this is a war game - and you immediately get your health under 20 and run to the Hit List then either keep your health under 20 or log out. We don't find you cute or funny. You're pathetic. And eventually you will log in, you will have health and we will kill you as many times as we can. So, just do the rest of us who are here to play a favor. Go play the fashion game, feel free to come back and hit us with your purse, ok?

People who HL the the vamp collecting bounty - Go to your newsfeed, find out who HL'ed you. That's the person you need to take the matter up with, not the vamp who collected the bounty. Often, the bounty collector will post on your wall saying something like "sorry, you were HL'ed, nothing personal". And they mean it. HL'ing the bounty hunter can get you a world of hurt as usually they're stronger than you meaning they can come back and attack you as many times as they like.

Random Hit List Day - Yes, I know it's great fun and mixes up the game for those of you who enjoy picking random people and putting them on the HL for huge bounties. It adds spice to the game and eases your boredom, and you've got more blood than you know what to do with. It's not so much fun for the (usually) lower level vamps you've listed. They're trying their best to come up in the ranks and you're messing with their stats. And confusing the heck out of them. Just HL someone who really, really deserves it, like someone messing with your Clan little ones or Baby killers and won't stop; especially if they DON'T like getting HL'ed.

Now if you've been subject to Random Hit List Day, my suggestion is to go to your newsfeed, find out who HL'ed you, post on their wall. Be polite, especially if they're higher level, and ask for alliance.

Clan Wars - usually seem to start over a comment made, a misunderstanding or a lower level vamp in a clan being attacked too many times. There is the "unwritten rule" of 1 to 3 attacks being the limit (but don't expect everyone to extend that courtesy) until you hit Level 70. Then pretty much all bets are off. Whenever possible try to work things out or ask someone in your Clan who you trust to try to mediate a truce and possibly an alliance. They can become a complete nightmare, a real headache and unnecessary stress on all parties involved. So try to work things out, ok? Agree to disagree and go your separate ways if you can't or won't make alliance.

Pyro Santa Pong before asking - Now this seems really trivial, right? And it kind of is - unless you're in the middle of battling your way through Level 70 and up, get one of these "so and so has sent you Fangs, return the favor" and in getting distracted end up getting killed. That does not bode well for the person who sent the item. You've now messed with the giftee's SR and stats. So go to your Clan comments and post, ask if anyone would like to "santa pong" with you for pyros and wait for someone to either reply or send you something.

"Baby" Killers - Higher Level Vamps who attack lower levels for "Fun" - Yes, you, the Level 350 who decided it would be fun to have a bookmarked "toy" when the under 125 or lower (meaning you found them on your Newsfeed from "helping" another lower level Clan member with a Mission or Combat - they don't call it a Feed for nothing!) when that vamp has done nothing particularly out of place. They may have attacked someone of the same level in your Clan. Well, that is part of the game, right? If said "Baby" is being too aggressive or abusive to Clan, then yes if asked you get involved. But you do that by first posting on the offending Vamp's wall. If they don't respond or are rude then ok, a warning shot. But to just attack over and over someone who at most, you'll get some blood from - not stats cause they're so far below you is just imho not in the interests of showing your Clan how to play fair and with some honor. If you do attack without warning and they write on your wall, you should give them an answer or call cease fire if they post with an apology; otherwise all sorts of nastiness can start, they can get fed up and HL you. You attack back, ad nauseum. Which can start a Clan War (see Clan War pet peeve above). Or the other person gives up and quits the game. Which means you've definitely crossed the line from game play to harrassment which is reportable.

If one of my little ones is repeatedly attacked with no apparent reason by someone over Level 125, I will get involved, I will try to find out what the story is. If I can't work something out, I'll try to get a neutral party (usually someone in alliance to both sides) to try to mediate. Attacking back or getting a stronger Vamp in my Clan to attack is last resort. HL? meh, not my first, second or third reaction. That's beyond last resort. I've got better things to spend my blood on usually.

Beggers - Honestly. Beggers are like, ugh. We all start with the same thing, it's up to each of us to get our abilities, whether it's pyro pong, trading (which is a good way to get certain ones!), whatever. But posting on Clan comments or on peoples' walls asking to be given things, No. I will gift Clan, I enjoy suprising my fellow members. But someone who begs? gets nothing. That says you're kind of expecting your Clan to do the work for you.

Cheaters - Whether it's multi-accounting, macros, programs, whatever. I don't claim to understand macros and programs because I don't. But it boils down to cheating and it's not rocket science to have a look at someone's stats and see an amazing amount of, say, missions versus their level and other stats. That's a big red flag that someone's not playing the game, but letting their computer play for them. Go find something else to do, ok?

Inactive Clan members - You, over there. Yes, you just sitting around doing a whole lot of nothing, unwilling to spend blood to spin the Wheel to help yourself and your fellow Clan members. Not doing missions (or not enough), not battling much. And who are then going to complain when you get your head handed to you regularly through combat because your SR and stats stink and you don't have your abilities because you haven't done missions. You may as well just let your clan know you're leaving, toss around any abilities you may have sitting which could be helpful to the active players, let us all say bye and good luck!, uninstall the app and find something that does interest you.

Abuse/Harrassment - Saved the "best" for last. There is nothing like logging in, reading your newsfeed and seeing that someone's left messages on your wall, going to read them and finding cursing, sexual innuendo, threats and other obscenities to just ruin your day. Neither are acceptable under any circumstances, are against FB. MS and VW ToS and will get you reported to both and hopefully have your accounts permanently banned. Oh and don't think because you've posted something horrible then removed it that it can't still be seen. It can and is. On the player's newsfeed and there are ways for Zynga to see things that we mere players are not privy to.