It’s never good to be known across multiple servers for being a an idiot, but it sure is funny.
As Tenryuu stated in his blog, one of our warriors in our guild lost a need roll on Commendation of Kael’thas to a mage named Primula. Said mage turned around and posted a “in your face” post for the warrior on our realm forum. I guess the mage felt he was in the right because he even posted screenshots. (The errors and bad typing are his not mine.)
next time one of your fully blue geared warriors decides to try and tank heroic mgt, not to mention suck at lvl 70 (idk how thats possible after gaining 70 lvl’s unless you ebay’d your char), want to all message me calling me a ninja and say im a ninja in trade while the rest of us finish the run… dont. i rolled on the commendation of kael’thas trinket for arena, why? because you suck is reason 1, and one epic wont help fix all your blues. im going to be nice, and give links to the screenshots since you want to call me a ninja. but just dont message me ever again, idc if you call me a ninja, go right ahead. you cant get the loot i have from being a ninja you morons.
I almost feel sorry for this guy. People from other servers are coming just to poke fun of him, and the backlash he’s getting from his own server must be horrible. Yet, I can’t help but think, “Karma, baby, karma.”
Technically, I left on a Red Riding Nether Ray, but let’s not quibble over semantics. Plus, really, those words won’t work with the melody of the song. It doesn’t matter what mode of transportation I used to make my exit; all that matters is that I made a quiet exit from my guild this morning. 
Every Saturday, I would update the site roster with the actual listing of members within game. If an account didn’t match up, it was deleted off the site. If we had new members who hadn’t made an account on the site, I would create one and send them an e-mail in game with their site information. (Don’t even get me started on the whole enabling of people aspect of that.) This was a weekly ritual.
So today, as I went through the accounts, I noticed a name that wasn’t previously on our roster. Lo and behold, someone has not only guilded Jagbag, but he’s been promoted to full member status. Now, I know he wasn’t there earlier because I would have noticed him on the roster during my weekly updates. However, I haven’t been on that much within the last week due to the fabulous flu and my obsession with my shadow priest. Read the rest of this page »
Well, we lost another two people from the guild. Sure, we lose some here and there because people don’t feel we progress fast enough. This time, it wasn’t guild progression, it was chat. Oh wait, we’ve lost people before due to chat.
After venting to Tenryuu, he told me to blog and get it off my chest. He told me to post it as is, but I’m taking a cue from Ratshag and blocking out the names of the innocent. Actually in this case, I’m blocking out the names of the idiots.
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Lately, I’ve read several blog posts about the behavior expected when one leaves a guild. Matticus has a post that nails it on the head. I won’t discuss that further. Instead I’d like to discuss behavior in general while in a guild.
I’ll say this story is a classic example of how not to behave in guild chat, and I need to get it off my chest before I implode. As Mark Twain wrote, “Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
My husband and I have gamed with a small group of people for over five years, and we moved from another MMO to WoW with them. Our guild had always been that casual guild that would never make it past ten man instances. You know the kind; people use them on their way up to bigger and better things.
Along the way, it managed to grow and pick up several people. One of those people, in the beginning, was very quiet. He never spoke on Vent and rarely typed anything in guild chat. Not a problem. Some people like to be solitary. From here on out, I’ll call him Jagbag. Can you tell this doesn’t end well? Read the rest of this page »
At what point do you draw the boundaries for what you will do for your guild? Honestly, I really don’t have a problem saying no to my guild mates. If I have a limited amount of time, I tell them so. If I am not feeling well and only have enough brain capacity to do something mindless like mine a zone, I tell them that, too. If I don’t have the patience to deal with them because it’s all been used up by my students, they hear that, too.
However, when it comes to the guild site, I swear it seems like I will jump through rings of fire to get stuff done. This week I did the following despite being on a WoW vacation:
- Created/approved new accounts on the guild site for new members
- Added mouseover tooltips to the guild site
- Added EQDKP to the guild site
The first one, I always do. It’s part of my routine to come home, check e-mail, and check the site. The tooltips were a relatively quick install. One of the officers requested it because they wanted to link items received from the raids run last week. (They’re doing a Loot Council, which is an entirely different post that I may one day write.)
The last thing I did was add EQDKP to the site. That was at the behest of my guild leader. Since I wasn’t familiar with that, I had to do some research and add it to the site. Not a problem.
What I do have a problem with is people wanting things added to the site but yet they don’t take their own time to research it. Sure, a part of that is because they don’t understand the coding or how it’s implemented. Honestly, sometimes I don’t understand it either, but I’ll slog through it to find out how it works.
My other irritation is that people don’t seem to realize that everything that I add to the site takes time away from other things I could be doing (playing WoW, making sigs, reading, etc.). It’s evident they don’t realize that because I’ll get whispers about site issues while in Karazhan. Sure, we’ve got Kara on farm, but when someone is raiding, that’s not the time to ask in-depth questions about something that would need to be looked up on the secondary monitor.
Last, I don’t want to implement something on the site for someone then have to teach that same person. If he or she wants it added, I’ll do it, but don’t expect me to hold his or her hand along the way.
I guess I just need to set limits when it comes to the site. I will probably end up telling people that they can ask, but the answer may be a resounding no.
