Rudeness - WoW
Oct. 17th, 2005 09:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plonqSince I've been working almost exclusively on my mage character lately, I've noticed a difference in the way that folks operate on the two servers. The people on Skywall seem to be more polite than the ones on Cenarius. This probably has as much to do with the population difference between the servers as anything else.
Two things that I have noticed in particular are around group invites and guild charters.
I hate it when somebody drops a group invite on me when I'm running in to engage an enemy. What's wrong with paging me to ask if I'm working on the same quest, or better yet, asking if I'm interested in helping you at all with yours. I don't mind helping people through quests - even ones that I've long since completed - if I'm asked. It's like people have developed an allergy to politeness, and I've become rather hard-nosed about rejecting all unsolicited group invites.
The same goes with guild charters. I don't appreciate having one shoved into my face when I'm in the middle of a transaction at the Auction House. Nor will I respond any more favourably when they say "plz" a couple of times after my initial rejection. I'm sure that Duckw@ngs of D3ath (or whatever it was called) will be an uber-1337 guild if he ever gets enough signatories, but I am not interested. See this? It's my "not interested" face. In all fairness to this kid, he's not the first person to shove a guild charter in my face like that, and I wouldn't have been interested in his guild even if he'd asked politely. The last two guilds I was in with my warlock broke up - one of them with some measure of acrimony - and I'm not currently looking to be recruited by random guilds. I'm going to shop around and find the guild that I want this time.
Two things that I have noticed in particular are around group invites and guild charters.
I hate it when somebody drops a group invite on me when I'm running in to engage an enemy. What's wrong with paging me to ask if I'm working on the same quest, or better yet, asking if I'm interested in helping you at all with yours. I don't mind helping people through quests - even ones that I've long since completed - if I'm asked. It's like people have developed an allergy to politeness, and I've become rather hard-nosed about rejecting all unsolicited group invites.
The same goes with guild charters. I don't appreciate having one shoved into my face when I'm in the middle of a transaction at the Auction House. Nor will I respond any more favourably when they say "plz" a couple of times after my initial rejection. I'm sure that Duckw@ngs of D3ath (or whatever it was called) will be an uber-1337 guild if he ever gets enough signatories, but I am not interested. See this? It's my "not interested" face. In all fairness to this kid, he's not the first person to shove a guild charter in my face like that, and I wouldn't have been interested in his guild even if he'd asked politely. The last two guilds I was in with my warlock broke up - one of them with some measure of acrimony - and I'm not currently looking to be recruited by random guilds. I'm going to shop around and find the guild that I want this time.
