People are pretty buckwild about their gnoll fangs, I don't quite get it. Not aware of other more interesting things to do, I suppose. I agree wholeheartedly with the sentiment of your post, but I will point out a few things (not to trying to aggravate, just information):
- "/report Bahkrel" will send the GMs a log of the last 10 lines of text interaction (/tell, /say, /ooc etc., not melee hits)
- /petition gets heavily bogged down, often with pretty inane things. You will get a much better response if you leave a single long (informative) petition then two short ones.
- The elites, splitpaw commanders, gnoll high shaman and maybe a few others I'm forgetting are still dark blue at level 17. So some of those people are still viably getting experience from fighting in the zone. I was on an alt the other day taking a 3 spawn of the elites, and eventually just gave up on it when a level 9 ranger and his ~50 ranger friend were clearing the whole zone top to bottom, checking the only 3 I was after every round.
The rogue you encountered is a pretty bad welcoming committee to the server, and poorly represents the other players around. But I highly recommend the "que sera" mentality. You can't fix stupidity or greed. You will come across both here at every level.