Comments on: Of Community Norms

By: Stabs

Stabs — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:16:06 +0000

WoW’s guild recruitment channel is very poorly implemented because once you are in a guild it disappears. So any of the people recruiting for their guilds that you are complaining about do not have access to the guild recruitment channel.

I suspect there is a way to turn it back on somehow but you can see why players use trade, the only global channel.

By: kmc

kmc — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:24:31 +0000

I wouldn’t say that it’s one person’s problem over another’s. I think that, while many complain about how many people “expect” to be run through things, and there are those who do, most people realize that it’s very difficult now to find an on-level group for things, and asking for one can actually get you ridiculed nearly as much as asking to be run through something. So often, they try the friend’s-main-run option first. There’s also the problem of joining a guild just to find that no one wants to log on an alt to help you do on-level group stuff while getting indignant over the idea of running a person through on their main, thus defeating the guild concept in the first place.

By: Fortuente

Fortuente — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:58:21 +0000

WoW channel spam wasn’t why I quit that game, but it was one of those things that made it really easy.

On the other hand, I went for quite a while without turning it off and being often amused as I was using Eloquence. http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/eloquence-fan-update.aspx

Even with the settings on full, though, it got too much. I found the general mental quality of the WoW population is like a vile cesspool of stupidity and immaturity. A lot of games, as a lot of real life entities, also have this problem but for some reason WoW highlighted this for me.

Interestingly, I’ve played LOTRO for some time now, but I actually quit for a long time about a week after launch because I got sick of seeing people running around with names like “Iclubbabyseals.” Stuff like that truly bugs me, but is that really *my* problem?

By: Bri

Bri — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:31:39 +0000

Every single player I know leaves the Trade channel in WoW immediately upon entering a city for the first time. The danger of psychological damage from reading all that tripe is too great to dismiss.

It usually helps to turn off /yells in your chat tab too.

Alternately I just switch to a Guild chat-only chat tab. My Tells chat tab will flash if someone sends me a /tell.