State of the STNY Address

Ok, as most of you all know by now I stepped down as Guild Master several days ago. Now guild chat and private messages have been a ripe old knitting circle lately with speculation as to why. The 2 main reasons:

1.

Barrett 95M

This is a Barret 95M. I’ve been enjoying shooting people in the face with it in Battlefield 2. This game is a blast and I’ve been playing it way more than I’ve been playing WoW. I dunno how long it will hold my interest, but for now I enjoy playing it (a lot).

2.

The other main reason I stepped down is because I found myself putting assloads of time and effort into the guild only to have members of said guild turn around to act like douches. Let’s run down some example douche bag behavior:

a. Throwing hissy fits when you don’t get to go on a raid
b. Throwing hissy fits when someone else gets loot you want
c. Shafting guildmates for mount money
d. Ganking guildmates (honestly, WTF?)
e. People who say “I already have my stuff from that place” (a.k.a. not helping out in guild raids)
f. Whining

If I was running an elementary school WoW guild, I’d expect all this stuff. I wasn’t running an elementary school WoW guild. Above all else STNY was supposed to be FUN guild, and because of douche bag behavior, it wasn’t fun anymore.

So where to now?

With that being said, what do we do now? I was hoping one of the other old school STNY admins would pony up and take on the chore of being GM. Alas, this was not be. All the officers have been chit chatting a bunch the past week or so and none of them has any desire or time to put up with bullshit from people in an online game.

Here’s what we are going to do about this situation. I’m going to come back as Guild Master. I’ll not be as active as I was the past few months, but I’ll be around enough to hopefully get some shit done. The other officers have mentioned that they will pick up more of the slack than they had previously. So this is a good start.

However, things are going to be a little different. I’ve been incredibally lenient the past few months as far as bullshit is concerned. We’ve let a lot of people into the guild who aren’t team players and more importantly are preventing other people from having fun. This no longer will be tolerated. I, and the other officers, will be dealing with people who aren’t playing ball with extreme prejudice. So for those of you who only think of yourself, who are greedy, who like to whine, who are dishonest, who talk behind people’s backs, etc. … you better stop now or update your toon’s resume, because you’ll be looking for a new guild if the behavior continues.

Executive Summary:
I’m back as GM. Drama-causing bullshit stops or you’re gone.