I was in a PuG run by a fellow guildie of mine who asked for my help in running him through Ramparts. When I got there we gave the tank lead so that he could mark targets, etc... Three pulls in I get a tell from him saying they are kicking my friend for a lvl 70 paladin healer so they could clear it faster. My friend was doing just fine, we wiped (ironically) due to a bad pull and now he was getting kicked. When they booted him seconds later I left as well, invited my friend to our own party and ported to Shattrath. They didn't even have the nerve to tell HIM that they were going to kick him.

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You mean have I ever met any assholes? Yeah - hundreds, then again you meet em on the freeway too.

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I pissed off another player by emoting "/me pickpockets you for 7 silver" in the auction house. He whispered a few profanities at me and demanded his money back and when I went to reply to him to explain that mages can't really pickpocket, I found out he put me on his /ignore list. Of course I added him to my friends list so I could whisper him every time he came online... sadly, to this day I remain on his /ignore. Pretty over-the-top reaction if you ask me, but I still laugh at that.

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So i re-activated my shaman last night and i was wandering around SW looking for a Stocks party, when i got a blind ginvite to . I accepted, because i'm aware of their 200+ member reputation and ill quality players. I figured it would be interesting, as i'm level 25 and most n00bs know that lowbies don't have any gold or can power level them thru an instance.

So there i was. Fit to be tied. I rolled thru Stocks with one of their warriors. He was a pretty good player. I had no qualms at all. So i logged thereafter to do some stuff and when i logged back on, I was greeted by either the GM or an officer.

Now, I don't go out of my way to cuss in gchat, but i have the tendency to talk about some pretty bizarre things when i'm bored of the usual grind. Needless to say, it isn't exactly "PG" or "PG-13" chat material. So asked "Do you guys have a PG chat rule?" and one member responded "PG Chat?" and i said "Yeah, can i say f---, sh--, b----, etc?" and BOOM! i got booted out of the guild.

I seriously don't care, but i did a "WTF?" look on my face. So after this, another officer invited me back into the guild and PM'd me to "stfu". At this point, I was like "This has got to be joke. You guys can't be serious." and i honestly thought they were playin around. Well, a few seconds after, the guy who reinvited me got booted out of the guild. I then recieved another PM from the same GM/officer who greeted me initially that stated, "I have strict rules about cussing. Are you going to do it again?" I responded, "Are you guys serious? I have no idea what your guild rules are."

I was then promptly booted from the guild again. Now like i said, i really don't care. Lowbie guilds are a dime a dozen and any halfwit with 10g can make one. Not only that, but this toon is an alt and if i have guild, ok and if not, who cares? But this incident made be chuckle and I figured it would be an interesting read. The name of the guild does suit it's actions imo.

Anyhow, if you have a mature guild with mature chat, and are recruiting lowbies, look me up. lol

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An in-game social issue of this sorts is not something I have experienced. But I am dealing with the same kind of treatment from Blizzard themselves.

I was given a 48-hour suspension for something I didn't do, and when I started to ask questions, I was also (and still am) given the "/ignore" treatment. My Account Administration emails were met with standardized responses, and a thread I posted on the Customer Service forum has not yet seen a Blue response, even after almost 1600 views and over 80 posts.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=3686744709&sid=1

http://jagoex.blogspot.com/2008/01/ban-update-still-chasing-answers.html

A bit frustrating, to say the least.

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Good lord. No, you're not missing anything -- That's just really, well, buttheadish.

Any RP guild who behaves that way isn't worth being in. You're being unfair on yourself and too lenient on them. There's no good reason for not letting people ask questions. (I suppose, if they've put up the rules of the guild on a webpage somewhere or something, an RTFM might be .... MIGHT be... justified, but that's it.)

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I was in what I thought was a nice small guild with pretty mature members. I tried to be as helpful as I could, since technically I think we were a leveling guild. One morning, I logged on, and my note had been changed to simply read "bitch."

Needless to say, I /gquit right away. I would have dealt with it better had one of the guildleaders sent me a note as to why I was suddenly labeled as such, but I'm not one to take that kind of immaturity lying down.

The guild I'm in now is much much nicer, to be sure. The most ironic part? In the old guild, the members were around my age, whereas in my new guild, I'm one of the older ones, and we've got sixteen-year-olds that show more maturity than my old guildies.

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The number of douchebags I encounter every day in WoW makes me want to play it less and less.

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Well this happened to me on a normal pve server. I like to mess around and have fun with this game. But not in this guild. I was helping some people in the guild go thru sm gy and in guild chat we started talking and stuff and then it got to paladin bashing. Who dosent like that anyway. Well i was talkling how i would counter this and all that and i called one of the officers a tree. Like a oak tree or a pine tree. And then I get a whisper from him saying something like "Please do not call people names even if it is in jest" And right there i /gquit. I was mid 50's at the time.

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Man that is just another classic case of Assholism in WoW.

I'm sure we've meet countless A-holes in the game and it kinda sucks but I guess it's just something you get used to, not that you should.

One of the first guilds I ever joined was essentially the largest guild on the server that I later found out had a lol-worthy reputation.

Appearantly the GM had a script to invite unguilded people on the server and that was how the guild was created.

Ok so after joining this huge guild in my mid 40's, I had a good time, getting in lots of runs etc. Then I said "shit" in guild chat and was Muted by a 13 year old officer. I was told that there was no cussing in Gchat, despite not having any kinda of website with official rules, etc. I of course made a stink and got my chat privileges back just so I could curse at them again and /gquit.

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what a bunch of douche bags....cmon man...unless you were like "omg i so leikz thiz game!! itz teh ub3r pwn!! so do we cyberz here or wutz?" they were completely out of line...some people are just morons and now their idiotic decision was made public i hope you pm them and tell them they made the wowinsider/massively hall of shame...pathetic RP players...no offense to most of them...but some have a stick in their ass...PVP SERVERS FTMFW!!!

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The most bizarre thing I’ve seen in game from another player… That would have to be the two Dwarves that were killing the Horde NPCs in the Barrens. I tracked them down on my Hunter and killed them. I don’t feel any remorse for killing someone grey to me if they are killing our NPCs. They send up a big, zonewide alert saying “come here and kill me” so I feel they’re asking for it.

Well, I hang out and one of them revives with his flag still up, so I kill him again. Then he revives in a nearby pond, apparently thinking I won’t see him… and I kill him again. Again, if he’s too dumb to let his flag drop, I’m not feeling any pity.

Then it happens… a /tell from a level 1 Orc with a random-letter-name cussing me out for killing “thos dwarvz” because they were “jus havin fun”. I told him politely that he’d stop dying if he 1) let his flag drop and 2) stop killing Horde NPCs… to which he cussed me out some more and asked me how I would like it if someone camped me. I told him I wouldn’t be dumb enough to revive over and over with my flag up, so that’s not going to happen… but I was already on ignore.

They let their flags drop, revived, did a few /rudes and ran off. Not five minutes later Camp T got hit, it was them, and they died again… a lot.

It blows my mind how anyone can complain about being killed when they are knowingly doing something that will attract someone to kill them.

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Hmm. I've only recently started playing and was vaguely considering, down the line, looking for or starting a guild for female players over 25, out of a desire to make a niche for anti-assholism.

However, I've also done some office/retail work with nothing but all female employees, and lemme tell you, we can be amazingly petty and evil in groups ourselves.

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