Comments on: Guildmate Circumvents Guild Leader, Goes Straight to Blizz GM’s

By: Pookies

Pookies — Fri, 02 May 2008 05:16:50 +0000

There are many gay gamers, including myself, who like to take a less extreme approach to dealing with people who like to sling the words “gay”, “fag”, and “homo” around like they don’t mean anything (which, BTW, they do … maybe some of your readers would realize this if they had people scream at them on the street and threaten their physical well-being for being straight).

But this doesn’t mean that Steve McQueen was out of line. All of us have to be remember that we are accountable for everything we say, regardless of whether it is in trade chat, guild chat, or tells.

PERIOD.

By: Yo, that’s gay « Pookies Is Not A Bear

Yo, that’s gay « Pookies Is Not A Bear — Fri, 02 May 2008 00:37:22 +0000

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By: Dynasor

Dynasor — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:58:57 +0000

Funny, I remember a coward running to the GM’s trying to get me banned one day…what guild was he from again…..*cough* FH *cough*, because he couldn’t take what he dished out….guess a guild can breed that kind of person…..

By: sid67

sid67 — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:31:52 +0000

I once got a three hour suspension for typing the letters Ã¢â‚¬Å“fuÃ¢â‚¬Â. I didnÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t even capitalize them. Just whispered Ã¢â‚¬Å“fuÃ¢â‚¬Â to him. It was my only communication to him and I sent it right after he ninjaÃ¢â‚¬â„¢d something when I had obviously cleared the area to it. I still get pissed thinking about it. He not only got the quest node, but he got me suspended for 3 hours.

By: Raphiki

Raphiki — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:59:46 +0000

The question here is what is the guild for. If this is a serious guild working on progression then it is the guild/class leader responsiblity to screen out the people who are going to be disruptive to the guild. I was in a serious raiding guild that had a very experienced/geared hunter that would spew the worst bile in guild chat and vent, sex, race, religion was not out of bounds. They would mute him in Vent and people would /ignore him but the guild kept him around. I always wondered why? Was it because he was geared and they needed him? My feeling is if you keep that type of element around eventually you will have a problem in your guild. People will not want to be in a group with a person like that, they wont want to listen to or have to tailor their game play around someone who is spewing hate and bile. Worst case scenario is that you start breeding people like that within the guild (cough SI cough), and then you have 5 or 6 people online being offensive just to be offensive. I can understand why Steve McQueen did what he did (the real SM would have kicked his ass) I don’t agree with it though. I don’t know if I would necessarily kick one without kicking the other but I think this situation needs to be nipped in the bud immediatley or it will get out of control.

By: Rivellana - Smolderthorn - Alliance

Rivellana - Smolderthorn - Alliance — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:25:47 +0000

While there is no excuse for using guild chat as a place to fling insults and argue (that should be done in whispers if there is such a problem), going to the GM is absolutely ridiculous. That guy needs to grow a thicker skin, and learn to trust the officers and guild leads…if you don’t have the patience to wait for one to come online, log off and cool down a bit, come back and check later. I agree that no one is going to want a guy like that in their groups…all the better reason to g-kick him.

By: Track

Track — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:24:10 +0000

Agreed, the real Steve McQueen would kick some ass, not tattle.

By: Dechion

Dechion — Thu, 01 May 2008 10:37:17 +0000

Both would be gone as fast as I could type /gkick both having gone out of their way to treat guildies badly.

Tommy should never have gotten insulting in g chat, if you absoultely must argue use a whisper.

Steve, well if no officers are on to handle the situation at the moment and tommy won’t shut up you have several choices

/ignore tommy is one, logging out for a bit is another, going and playing on an alt tommy dosen’t know while waiting for an officer to come online is another.
Worst case you have nothing else you could be doing, and no alts at all. then start one, cross faction if possible. That way you can eventually hunt down a$$hats of either faction. Trust me having a 70 on both sides of the fence is nice.

By: Merlot

Merlot — Thu, 01 May 2008 10:15:58 +0000

Meh, anything that stamps on the incidious homophobia in WoW is fine by me. I left the playground behind a long time ago and have no desire to go back.

By: Matford

Matford — Thu, 01 May 2008 03:49:02 +0000

I habitually report people who use derogatory terms in trade and general.

But not GC.