Talk:Ghosting

Ghosting can also refer to multi-player online first person shooter games, in which the active player has a direct view, and those players who are "spectating" have a viewpoint slightly above and behind that of the pricipal player. From this elevated and somewhat removed postion, they are able to see certain things the active player cannot, such as enemies hiding behind walls, etc.

When ghosting, the spectating players are then able to feed intelligence about the adversary's whereabouts via a gaming voice communcation system i.e. GameComm, TeamSpeak, Ventrilo or Roger Wilco. The active player then has an advantage, as there are extra eyes with a slightly different viewpoint giving them hints about other players within the map.

Some people view ghosting as a cheat, others simply accept the reality that it is more likely to happen than not, and therefore expect it & plan accordingly.

Added to the article, thank you for your contribution. webjockey 13:17, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Ghosting is also an issue that is discussed on craigslist. But it's one that I'm not entirely familiar with. Would it be appropraite for somebody to write about it in this article? Joe (talk) 23:10, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Also, there's a thing for keyboard ghosting, where keys don't appear depending on certain keypresses (http://www.microsoft.com/appliedsciences/content/projects/AntiGhostingExplained.aspx). Wikipodium (talk) 14:30, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

'Ghosting in the sense of dropping out of society, being "off the radar". Used in MRA an MGTOW contexts.