Human nature in the online gaming world
It is strange, I enjoy playing World of Warcraft but at times it is like I pay $15 a month to be annoyed by the idiocy and hypocrisy of other people. This may not be the case if I was not the member of a large-ish guild, but I am and in fact am one of the leaders of it. You'd think I would learn to avoid that sort of thing after my time in Underlight, and yet I haven't. It is not as though I seek out these positions, they just find me.
The problem is that one of the others, Dusty, who I am friends with has turned out to be a bit of a jackass. At some point he decided he did not like one of our officers, despite the fact that according to him he is "the only one" that tries to see all sides of a situation and make everyone get along. He even told me that he could not stop trying to get everyone to get along, even though when you have a group of people it is impossible. Turns out he is a liar, because he never even bothered to tell Ruth, the officer, how he really felt about her until this morning.
Instead he gave up his position in the guild and then proceeded to send private messages to all of the rest of the leaders, except me, that basically said that Ruth had to be put in her place. Thus did he do one of the things he accused her, going and talking about her problems in private. Except where she went to those she thought of as friends and only vented, which I find normal and acceptable, he went around trying to control the guild from behind the scenes and his messages were meant to hurt her and turn people against her. He did finally send in game mail to her that said what he had been telling others.
I also believe he was the one that changed our guild message, that everyone in the guild sees when they log in, to leave a message that was meant to be harassing to her.
It hurts because I thought of him as a friend, and I never thought he would sink to such behavior. It is the exact opposite of everything he always said that he was and what he did and believed. I guess I should not be surprised, in most instances I am quite the jaded cynic but when I do make friends I like to believe they are at the least honest.
The problem is that one of the others, Dusty, who I am friends with has turned out to be a bit of a jackass. At some point he decided he did not like one of our officers, despite the fact that according to him he is "the only one" that tries to see all sides of a situation and make everyone get along. He even told me that he could not stop trying to get everyone to get along, even though when you have a group of people it is impossible. Turns out he is a liar, because he never even bothered to tell Ruth, the officer, how he really felt about her until this morning.
Instead he gave up his position in the guild and then proceeded to send private messages to all of the rest of the leaders, except me, that basically said that Ruth had to be put in her place. Thus did he do one of the things he accused her, going and talking about her problems in private. Except where she went to those she thought of as friends and only vented, which I find normal and acceptable, he went around trying to control the guild from behind the scenes and his messages were meant to hurt her and turn people against her. He did finally send in game mail to her that said what he had been telling others.
I also believe he was the one that changed our guild message, that everyone in the guild sees when they log in, to leave a message that was meant to be harassing to her.
It hurts because I thought of him as a friend, and I never thought he would sink to such behavior. It is the exact opposite of everything he always said that he was and what he did and believed. I guess I should not be surprised, in most instances I am quite the jaded cynic but when I do make friends I like to believe they are at the least honest.