The Ups and Downs of Guilds

It will be no surprise to anyone that I belong to a guild on WoW. Most people do. Guilds are quite prevalent on RP servers. The truth is that I belong to 2 guilds currently and have bounced between guilds many many times.

I've noticed a lot of negative things out of one of my current guilds lately and I feel honor bound to point something out.

Do you know what the guild assholes are doing to the guild? I mean it. Tonight as I was watching SM get ground to a pulp I saw a conversation that went something like this:

(guildie 1)Damn, that's the 3rd guild quiery I've answered tonight. Why the hell are they bothering me?
(guildie 2)Yeah, I've gotten 3 tonight myself. These people are lame!
(Asshat) I had someone ask me about the guild. I told them to fuck off.
(guildie 1 & 2) lawls

Now maybe this was all said jokingly. I wasn't on the vent channel so I don't know if this was tongue and cheek or not. But if it wasn't then think about how much our guild looked like a bunch of wankers thanks to those total asshats shooting off their mouths.

Let me be honest and say that I don't give a crap about some malcontent in a game whose sole joy is being a total dick in WoW. He's probably going to die from a stroke at 27 because he got a blood clot in his leg and it it dislodged and killed him while he was AFK getting a soda or surfing the web for the hundreth time during a BG.

But the fact is that while he is crapping all over someone, he's doing it with my guild's name over his head, and thus he respresents the guild when he's being a total wanketeer. Word fame sticks and if it is bad word fame its nearly impossible to get rid of it. I've seen guilds fall apart because of high school politics like this and I have a simple view on this:

Take the guild back from the wankers!

When I was in grade school I got beat up for my lunch money a lot. Did this make me hand them my lunch money? HELL NO!!! I fought back. I was a total underhanded mean little witch when it came to playground fights over my stuff. I learned to stand up for myself and tell the bullies to stuff it.

So why do people let the asshats win? Guys like this probably will never leave Mom's basement, have a girlfriend or get laid. The frustration at their pathetic lives is probably WHY they're such jerks.

Me? I'm going to quietly talk to someone in charge and point out what I saw. I'll mention that it may have been tongue in cheek and that I may be reading too much into it but that I am concerned.

Yeah I rat out asshats. I've been told I'm boring and stodgy and you know what?

I don't care. Its my game too and I'm not letting them ruin it for me. The guild name you wander around with over your head is part of who you are. Do you really want to be known as the Asshat guild or one of those jerks that mouths off to people?

I sure as heck don't.