I agree with this post. Back in 1.5.2 (May 2013-June 2013) the game seemed more peaceful. Well now there are griefers. It is getting annoying when people grief... but I don't get griefed. Tips to not getting griefed: Do not make your house close to spawn or other houses. Make it faraway... so no one can find your house and raid/grief. Also... make the enterance far from the house. In a server, I made the enterance to my house underground. If this helps, thanks.

Okay, greifing on survival, I find that legit. Because it provides more of a challenge where you have to make your base either un-griefable or make it far away, and you need to find stuff. I wouldn't say it's a normal thing, it's not.. not mean or anything, but it's fine. Creative on the other hand, no. That would be bullying, as you said. Someone spent their hard time making this structure of some sort, weather or not it be "nooby" or totally amazing, and you spend YOUR time destroying, defacing, and totally wrecking it, that's not okay. Also, with CanadianR said, on almost EVERY SINGLE SERVER I'VE BEEN TO (wich is over 100, I've had the game since alpha 1.5), whenever there's a girl player, every single male on the server swarms to her and asks her to be her virtual girlfriend. kthxbai, going to kill myself because IT'S A FUCKING GAME.

I recently got mod on a server and I have seen some griefing and I am not for it. Sometimes, if you just do a little practical joke on a friend that can be fixed easily that is alright. Infact, until I got on my current server, where I managed to find some great friends, I left a lot of the time from servers because before I could even get a base or anything started, someone decides to "welcome me" by griefing my stuff, then saying harsh and rude statements. In fact, border-line rudeness and harrassment is just as big of an issue. Example, name calling, making fun of where someone, saying sexual things to girl players etc. Whenever I see that, I usually try to stop it, even when I was not mod. I feel as though we as part of the Minecraft community should try to do our part to stop griefing, trolling, rude statements and things like that. We can't get rid of it all, but even if we remove some it will make more people enjoy this great game.

For me it depends a little on the server. If you have a survival that is oriented PVE and freebuild then you should trade with people. If you have an PVP server you should be aware that thiefes have their eyes on you even 3 secs after you spawned, not to mention the high level murderers. ^^

It's okay if they deserve it.

They usually do.