I know this is probably an unpopular opinion but Hard Reserving gear should be bannable. It’s one of them toxic things about TBC and Vanilla Classic and a good reason why engame raiding entirely pointless and a complete waste of time. How can you expect people to join your raid and do all the work for you only for you to reap the rewards?.
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No one is forcing you to join a HR run.
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Tell us you’re not good enough to get into a raid without telling us you’re not good enough to get into a raid.
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I don’t see how it’s bannable for someone forming a raid to have certain items reserved or to create a list on discord for people to soft reserve before the raid. It’s also very likely that you’ll be able to find a raid that doesn’t have reserved items and just has people roll for everything.
If they said there were no reserves and then ninja looted stuff you may have more weight to your argument.
Social problem with social solution.
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It’s usually just one reward. If you think it’s bad now, it’s going to get even worse in Wrath.
“LF NAXX grim toll, x3 T7 tokens, apocalypse HR pst”
It has nothing to do with “not being good” enough it has to do with the fact that people weren’t how to lose as a child and it shows.
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Weird, I’ve led tons of SR Gruuls with DST HR and never have a hard time filling up. You can always just make your own group.
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wut
Spit those marbles out and try again.
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People join my raids every week despite me reserving loot for myself. If you don’t like my raid rules, feel free to make your own raid with your own rules.
Stop trying to control how others play the game please.
You posted on the wrong character, you should have used a level 1 Troll for this
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I suppose it depends. If someone really wants a particular item, and spends the time to form a dungeon or raid group for it, letting everyone know as they do so that they are hard reserving a particular item, then other people who also want that item, can opt out of joining, or join with the understanding that they will not be able to get that item, even if it drops.
While I suppose I can understand that someone might want to roll on an item in someone else’s group, while also not being willing to form their own group, it’s difficult (for me) to understand why it would make sense to ban that sort of behavior.
Perhaps you could further explain what about it you find toxic, and why, and what alternatives you suggest?
“People weren’t taught how to lose”
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Is it just me, or is it obvious to everyone else dude has a roll hacker? 
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I am in a Gruul’s right now for a guildie who never got a DST while they were still full guild runs because RNG and loot prios and everyone wants one.
Don’t like it? Don’t join.
Those 5mans where the tank reserves all unwanted blues are not much different.
Make your own group if their terms are not agreeable.
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So long as it’s advertised as X item being hard reserved then I see no issue with it.
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I do gdkps, i never join a HR raid, its basically them stealing or getting carried for free.
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I think it’s the complete opposite of toxic… people are communicating to you why they’re putting the group together. Toxic would be if they didn’t tell you and just master looted it to themselves. If you don’t like the groups, don’t join them. That is the solution.
You find 4-24 other people who don’t care about said “rewards”.
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Seems kind of silly to ban it when it is optional to join those raids in the first place.
The fact that these raids fill up pretty quickly and pretty regularly just shows that quite frankly not enough people care. The fact is there are just not enough raid leaders out there. Those willing to stick there neck out to run a pug raid are free to run it however they like.
The best way around this problem is to find a guild you get along with that fits your kind of playstyle and loot requirements. If no guild seems to fit you, well than that is on you and you can’t expect the world to realign itself for you.