Get yer vicarious Warcraft drama here: Ctrl Alt Delete guild unceremoniously disbanded. My read is that there was a drunken guild disband, followed by nuking of the guild forums, etc. Sadly, this happens all the time. Once a guild starts wobbling or tanking, take immediate steps to preserve the guild data: screenshots, database backups, use pen and paper if you have to. Vindictive bitches will nuke whatever they can just cuz they can. End of Lesson.
My long, hard day of work is finally over, so I figure I’ll log on and play a bit and relax. Good plan, in theory anyway…
I log on about an hour or so before start times to make sure things are in order and won’t start late. Before I’ve even finished loading in, I’m bombared with …
Recruit_01: What zone we doing tonight?
Recruit_02: What’s a zone?
Recruit_03: What’s vent?
Recruit_04: What loot can I roll on?
Recruit_05: I don’t understand dkp, so I’ll just roll on everything I want
After explaining to them what a zone is, where we’re raiding, what vent (Ventrilo) is and how to get it working, what DKP is and how it works and yelling at Recruit_05 for being an idiot, I look to see who’s online and start making plans for the raid. Sadly, I don’t get very far..
Recruit_03: I downloaded the vent server client and don’t see any options
Recruit_04: Why do I start with 0 dkp?
Recruit_05: Why was I kicked out of the raid?
Recruit_04: It’s not fair, I should be able to get stuff today
I politely (not) tell Recruit_03 he needs the vent client and then explain the facts of life to Recruit_04 and Recruit_05. Thankfully, yelling tends to shut them up and preserve what’s left of my sanity.
Recall how much I enjoy rambunctious young’uns and how much I enjoy the disruptive nature of the Warcraft mod, Whispercast. (recall)
So a few weeks back, we had this young’un in the guild — high schooler if I remember correctly and how the hell can I ever forget — who was a BIG FAN of Whispercast. In fact, to hear him tell it, he’s the one that birddogged this mod down and introduced it to much critical acclaim! Best. Mod. Ever. per him.
Anyways. He was constantly spamming the guild boards with these autobiographical opuses. Months after joining, he’s still writing these Intro to Me! posts. Fuck.
Plus, he’d always come up with these fabulous strats for our raids that he just had to introduce MID-RAID. “Umm hey everyone. I had this great thought in study hall today about these mobs. We have a few minutes, right? I can outline it for everyone. First, I was thinking today in study hall …”
The one raid, I stopped him in the middle of one of his little strat speeches and /told him to shut up and not to speak again until we were all in Ironforge. Seriously. Every last player must be in Ironforge before he could speak again. Or else.
I regretted that immediately. Not because I was too rough on the tyke, but because he spammed threatening and angry tells cuz I had disrespected him. (Whatthefuckever.) And I’ll quote … Don’t you care that you disrespected a guildmate?? Me: No. No I do not.