The story of Acarer booting people from a guild in a spur-of-the-moment type fashion reminds me when we were in Hate a month or so back (Guild Bob). Some members got angry about other guilds (IB I think?), creating trains as Guild Bob cleared... And, Bob Leader Hyjal basically took it in stride, not one bit ruffled until the complainers would not stop. They started telling Hyjal that they needed to petition the training, etc., etc. Hyjal said, "If you want to raid here, you need to toughen up and get used to this. If you cannot handle it, then goodbye." With that, he booted about 3-5 members, some of who had good reputations in the guild.
I was pretty surprised. I agreed with his demeanor on it all, but I didn't think booting these members was correct either, as they were just voicing their passion, maybe a bit much, but they simply cared.
Another caveat to this story is a highly twinked rogue named "Karrick" was in Lord Bob. He commented when the players got booted on a monk in particular, saying, "Wow, the most legit monk in the guild and you boot him." A day later, "Karrick" was no longer in Lord Bob, and he had a TMO guild tag over his head. I then realized just how serious people on this server take this game. I presume Karrick was a TMO spy in Lord Bob trying to mine info about the guild leaders etc.
I am no longer part of Lord Bob, only because I got a feeling that the leadership was self-centered to the point it's members could and would be used for their leaders own purposes. I did not get the feeling that leadership there looked to create any sort of bond or friendship with it's members, they only used them as tools to raid content they wanted to personally raid for their own purposes. I could be wrong... Perhaps Hyjal is simply a bit introverted. Maybe he just doesn't express himself well.
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