I don't know why I can't grasp the mentality in competitive online shooters at times, but it just puzzles me how some people think about this. I suppose I am a person to play a game based on how I enjoy it to be played. I come up with my own tactics, that fit my playstyle. Why should I adhere to a set of norms? So, here's my take on it.

Stop camping! 
If you're playing a fast paced game and someone is sitting somewhere taking easy shots at your skull whenever you turn around that specific corner, you might get a little bit frustrated. So what do you do? Perhaps you change tactics the next time around and throw a granade or flashbang in his general direction before or maybe you'll try and flank the guy. But, nope, that's not what you'll do. You'll scream "stop camping you [insert racial, gender or sexuality based insult here]." But why? One could argue that sitting around is not playing the game by the rules, but are they really rules? I've never seen someone kicked for camping, other than for complete inactivity. 
  
There is another element to this that is probably the main reason for my own discontent with the whining; Sniping. A lot of times when I was playing Battlefield 2 and I was on a good streak, I got to overhear people not liking the fact that I was "camping," I thought that was a bit weird considering I was a  sniper. What do you think snipers do? Exactly, they stay down to make sure they get a good shot, they don't generally run around as much as the other guys. Also, as my rifle has long range, and shitty hipfire stats, why would I risk running into you wen I can take you out before you even knew there was someone looking at you? Maybe I am a little more patient than most people, because I love it when there's a big map with a ton of snipers and sometimes, it can get really quiet for some time because everyone is waiting for one guy to make a mistake. But I digress. 
  
So, I would advice people to rather than whine about that guy who always sit in that corner in those bushes, find a tactic to smoke him out. Because once a camping spot has been smoked once, it generally keeps them away. I mean, anyone remember those cranes in Battlefield 2. Awesome sniping right? Yeah, the first week until everyone realized how easy it is to kill a sniper up there.  
 
I suppose to me, sniping in online shooters is a high risk/high reward scenario. Because while you can pick people off from afar, there's also the big possibility that with every shot you take, someone will figure out your location and one is not always the best at looking at the rear view mirror when you're prone trying not to move unecessarily. I continue to digress. Let's move on. 
 
How to tube your noob. 
My rifle has a granade launcher? That's crazy! Awesome! Wait, what? I can't use it? Why? Oh, I see. So basically using a really effective weapon is something for beginners? So when do I unlock the stick? Because that's prestige, killing people with a stick. If you get killed by a granade launcher; get over it. You were not catious enough and ended up in a blast radious of an exploding little thing fired from the bottom of my rifle. I can kill you with my rifle, or even knife if I wanted to. But if I know you're coming, or even calculating the odds that you might (and you might bring friends), I'll shoot a granade in your general direction. Or, into the building I saw you in. It's not me who should be told I'm a noob for using my arsenal to the best of it's abilities, it's you who should reconsider your tactics. I've had granade flown right on past me, blown up behind me, so I know it's not the holy grail of weapons. It does take a little bit of thought to get it to the right place. 
 
So, for anyone who thinks using a granade launcher is a thing for beginners, here's my challange; I want you to play with nothing but a knife. Because if granade launchers (by implication, something you just shoot in a general direction and it has a large blast radious) are for beginners, the elite would use the exact opposite, right? So... knife only. Awesome. 
 
Right back at you, pal! 
Team killing is a touch one, sometimes people are enjoying the griefing of others like that. But, contrary to camping, people do get kicked for too much team killing. The thing about it though is that it's not always your intent to kill your teammate, sometimes your buddy just ran right into your line of fire without thinking ahead. A quick "sorry" in the headset might smooth things over (even if it wasn't technically your fault), but sometimes (especially with Modern Warfare 2) it kills their killstreak and they're a little more frustrated than a mere "sorry" can cure. So what then? Well, you could send flowers, but the most likely scenario I've noted is that they will bring the gift right back and kill you. 
  
How is that helping anyone? If someone killed me, ruining my killstreak, what would I (or my team) gain by killing him and getting reduction to my points? That has to be one of the most crazy stupid things I've experienced of them all. Because if you think about it, he just lost his killstreak and then he decides to deduct points from himself. What?! 
 
You stole my kills, I'm telling mom. 
My most recent encounter with weird gaming logic. I was playing Modern Warfare 2 and made a nice flanking move on two guys and took them out, just seconds before a guy on my team dropped a harrier strike on their position. The whole rest of the game he was whining and whining about how I stole his kills. As if I knew he was planning to drop something right then and there and killed them out of spite. No wait, I actually knew it by mind reading over the internet. Bazinga! 
 
So what's your take on gaming logic, especially multiplayer wise? Agree/Disagree? Give me your thoughts.