YMMV on this one, but yeesh.
This one took a while to build up.
I had two members transfer over from another server. They're great, amazing people, and fun to be around. Let's call them Leet and Rock. Well, someone else from their first server transferred over about 6 months later, and tried to get into my guild. He started out nice, very sweet, very kind. I told him who his friends were here. We'll call him Dingbat. I even gave Dingbat my guild's website address so he could see how to apply and see if the guild was right for him.
Later that day, I received word from Leet that he'd transferred to avoid Dingbat because he's a nosy, annoying, opinionated prat. Oh dear. So I told Dingbat, trying to remain diplomatic and keep Leet and Rock from suffering Dingbat's wrath, that we weren't recruiting novices. Normally, that keeps people out. This would be a partial suck on my part, I admit.
Not this guy. Cue facepalm here.
Dingbat proceeded to spam my warrior alt's mailbox with five letters of backstory. It was terrible backstory, too, with gems like his bank alt being a former blood elf slave forced to become a prostitute, and his death knight being this goblin's best friend. This goblin's parents were killed by gnomes, and it was just a trainwreck of really bad Warcraft roleplay. My website specifically states that an in-character, face-to-face interview is required, and he ignored this outright.
Since it was in character, I responded in character. I sent him a kind, well-worded rejection letter, stating that his issues with gnomes did not fit into this Horde guild's premise, and that he as a person was not what we were looking for. I always tell people -why- they're being rejected, so they can improve and go on to a different guild. If they are going to get another chance to apply, I let them know. At this point, it had gone beyond "Dingbat is a creepy stalker my guildies don't like" to "Dingbat really doesn't know how to roleplay," so I had a legitimate reason to tell him to shoo that I wouldn't have to be diplomatic about. I assumed I was finished with Dingbat after telling him that he wasn't getting in. Again, most people just go on to other guilds.
I was wrong.
Today, I found -six- letters in my main's mailbox detailing his new goblin's history. It was a slightly in-character overview of the entire goblin starting area. There was no creativity involved, he just regurgitated the starting quests, up to and including the rescue of Thrall.
I whispered him asking -why- he thought it was a good idea to spam someone's mailbox, instead of follow protocols listed in plain sight. He started to go off about how he thought I was a decent person, and how he thought I was nice and that I'd let him in to hang out with his real life friend. Leet had already told me that this guy wasn't a real-life friend of his, so I called him on that. I pointed out that if they were real-life friends, he'd be able to talk to Leet at home. He confessed that he was only friends with Leet through WoW, and that he was doing all this -specifically- to get into my guild to hang out with Leet and Rock. I told him to go away, outright, and never to contact anyone within my guild ever again. Here's hoping it works.
I had two members transfer over from another server. They're great, amazing people, and fun to be around. Let's call them Leet and Rock. Well, someone else from their first server transferred over about 6 months later, and tried to get into my guild. He started out nice, very sweet, very kind. I told him who his friends were here. We'll call him Dingbat. I even gave Dingbat my guild's website address so he could see how to apply and see if the guild was right for him.
Later that day, I received word from Leet that he'd transferred to avoid Dingbat because he's a nosy, annoying, opinionated prat. Oh dear. So I told Dingbat, trying to remain diplomatic and keep Leet and Rock from suffering Dingbat's wrath, that we weren't recruiting novices. Normally, that keeps people out. This would be a partial suck on my part, I admit.
Not this guy. Cue facepalm here.
Dingbat proceeded to spam my warrior alt's mailbox with five letters of backstory. It was terrible backstory, too, with gems like his bank alt being a former blood elf slave forced to become a prostitute, and his death knight being this goblin's best friend. This goblin's parents were killed by gnomes, and it was just a trainwreck of really bad Warcraft roleplay. My website specifically states that an in-character, face-to-face interview is required, and he ignored this outright.
Since it was in character, I responded in character. I sent him a kind, well-worded rejection letter, stating that his issues with gnomes did not fit into this Horde guild's premise, and that he as a person was not what we were looking for. I always tell people -why- they're being rejected, so they can improve and go on to a different guild. If they are going to get another chance to apply, I let them know. At this point, it had gone beyond "Dingbat is a creepy stalker my guildies don't like" to "Dingbat really doesn't know how to roleplay," so I had a legitimate reason to tell him to shoo that I wouldn't have to be diplomatic about. I assumed I was finished with Dingbat after telling him that he wasn't getting in. Again, most people just go on to other guilds.
I was wrong.
Today, I found -six- letters in my main's mailbox detailing his new goblin's history. It was a slightly in-character overview of the entire goblin starting area. There was no creativity involved, he just regurgitated the starting quests, up to and including the rescue of Thrall.
I whispered him asking -why- he thought it was a good idea to spam someone's mailbox, instead of follow protocols listed in plain sight. He started to go off about how he thought I was a decent person, and how he thought I was nice and that I'd let him in to hang out with his real life friend. Leet had already told me that this guy wasn't a real-life friend of his, so I called him on that. I pointed out that if they were real-life friends, he'd be able to talk to Leet at home. He confessed that he was only friends with Leet through WoW, and that he was doing all this -specifically- to get into my guild to hang out with Leet and Rock. I told him to go away, outright, and never to contact anyone within my guild ever again. Here's hoping it works.