They’re not allowed to leak stuff, but they’re allowed to have discord parties. Me and my colleagues have a discord. People also sometimes discuss work stuff with colleagues outside of work if they’re weird/too passionate for their own good.
I agree that the phrasing is quite strange, and the official stuff is on Slack, probably, unless the leaker themselves is one of the devs.
Mods are not Blizzard devs .Forum mods are a third party customer service company Blizzard uses to outsource customer support.
If they have a private discord it’s not sanctioned by Blizzard and they are using it to harrass posters that’s highly concerning and illigal.
If someone could prove that they experienced forum harassment from a blizzard employee, one could take legal action against Blizzard (and likely win)
Looks like you changed guilds too.
The previous guild I was in was one I was invited to after doing M+ with its guild leader. The guild I’m in now has some people from the guild I was in before the previous one, which I was kicked from after some drama I had with the guild leader. I joined that one sometime after I joined its Horde counterpart, and I learned that I had been in another guild of the same guild leader during WoD, who had been notoriously abusive to the people part of it. It had been around 5-7 years ago so I figured I’d give him another chance, but over time his abusive tendacies started showing again and other people were again becoming victims of his behavior. It’s unfortunate that he hasn’t changed for the better but I’m proud of myself for giving him the benefit of the doubt while being prepared for his abuse incase it showed again.
Spill the tea.
I was also kicked from a guild once for having drama with a guild leader. For a whole year I had a huge reputation on Arathor and it followed me from guild to guild. People talked crap about me in the general world chat… it was great to be so infamous. If you visit Arathor and hear people talking about “that bossy paladin tank” that’s me. I’m the bossy paladin tank.
I’m proud of you too, just because we all enjoy this game doesn’t mean you have to accept abuse just to play.
This post is kind of confusing to me. Did you get kicked from your previous guild or the one before that?
TBH it hasn’t been uncommon for me to get kicked from guilds, sometimes it’s been my fault and I’d apologize to those guilds today if given the chance to do so, though other times it hasn’t been my fault. There was a time during MoP where I was blacklisted for awhile because some woman thought I ERP’d with someone she liked so she would message the leaders of guilds I was in and she’d convince them to kick me. The guild I got kicked from in the previous post is one of an adult nature that’s tried to support BDSM type proclivities. Which is how the leader has been able to emotionally abuse people, by taking people who enjoy that type of thing under his wing. An example I can give for myself, he’d explain a situation where he miscommunicated with someone so I explained to him what went wrong, his response was to be a downer and say he’d avoid talking to people, I’d tell him to keep trying but keep in mind where he went wrong, then I’d get yelled at for supposedly trying to keep him down.
The one before that. The one I’m in now has people who were also a part of that.
The same thing happened to me! she moved to Wyrmrest Accord.
She threatened to put a hex on me.
I hope that wasn’t as bad a time for you as it was for me.
oh it was, i was embroiled in a ERP drama so big, I was accused of ERP’ing with not one but three different people, ruining 3 relationships. And one irl marriage.
When I tried to move guilds, I had random people message me “please don’t try to steal my husband”
I didn’t do a darn thing.
I never got accused of ERPing with anyone. I’m veryintroverted in-game. The worst I ever got was a guy who wanted to ERP at me for like a couple years and couldn’t take the hint. Even when I blatantly said “I don’t ERP at all”. Some people don’t believe that no means no.
I got a few mounts for casually flirting with someone.
I didn’t even ask, they just gifted me mounts. I was like "Okay,…"I didn’t know it was a payment or an expectation to ERP. I just thought the guy was a friend. I guess I’m a ho now. They bought me the Sandstone drake too so they spent like 75K in gold. I never use it now because it feels like it was paid for in blood money. I didn’t know what I was signing up for.
I’ve learned my lesson, when guild guy friends send you battle pets, or toys or mounts they are actually just expecting something and it’s not just normal things friends do.
The guy who gave me the sandstone drake was married. and he ‘gifted’ it to me for my birthday in the middle of raid so of course it raised some eyebrows. I was just his tanking partner. My guild then implemented a rule that only two men can be tank partners so it doesn’t “get weird”
annnnd that’s why I don’t tank anymore. Which sucks because at one point in BFA I was the top pally tank on my server, guilds were fighting over me. I took a lot of pride in that but the reputation of being a girl who steals other people’s husbands stuck with me for a while. The running joke was “I don’t want to tank with her, I might get in trouble with my wife/girlfriend.” It sucks that I was remembered not for my skills but for my reputation, and it’s soured me on a lot on raid and M+ progression ever since.
You are not alone <3
the fact that the guild leader exploited people into BDSM really makes me mad, because that means they are not truly into BDSM they are only into exploiting BDSM. That’s a fake dom right there. That’s not your fault. You were looking for a safe community to explore, and some butthat decided to take advantage of you. The BDSM communities on Reddit and Tumblr are better places to explore than the WoW ERP community.
Even Tiktok is a good place to learn, there’s some good Shibari tutorials there.
Your previous guild leader sounds like a depressed person and all you did was try to lift their spirits. There was nothing you did that was wrong.
Sounds like sexism.
I think you’re correct about this.
He’s not very good at it. Seems to put in minimum effort and isn’t very descriptive. He’s only able to get the attention he’s gotten due to being a guild leader.
I know now to avoid anything that uses the term “Gorean”.
It was a repeated pattern of behavior, which he used to try inflicting doubt onto others to make them think they were the ones in the wrong. The people in that position would think they were making him sad which would justify him yelling at them.
yeah that right there is a huge red flag, he seems to be only doing it for attention. The BDSM culture has guidelines, it’s not something that’s done on a whim. There’s setting up a scene, constant talks about boundaries and aftercare. Please tell me he knows about aftercare, and he’s not just leaving you hanging emotionally after. If he’s a real dom he’s supposed to be taking care of you emotionally, not the other way around.
oh no, ugh he seems to have fetishized Conan the Barbarian style 80’s sexist fantasy. Run.
He’s not a dom he’s just an abuser 
You did nothing wrong, he’s clearly just a toxic unstable person.
Pretending to be nice is how he’d lure people in, so he does know what that is. He doesn’t care to know what’s happening personally with those under him though, he usually only wants to talk about himself.
Yes, that’s what the problem is, above all else. Him being bad at what he does isn’t as important in comparison to being abusive.
your story is far worse than mine and I’m so sorry that happened to you.
I didn’t just flirt with the guy who was married. I was his friend and he started opening up to me that he was seeking separation and because I lost my husband a few years earlier to cancer I could empathize with his feelings of loss. then he confessed that he was in love with me and that’s when the gifts started.
I started digging deeper when he suggested that we start a long distance relationship, only to find his instagram and find that he was not separated, he was posting instagram love posts to his wife and going on dates while he was telling me he was separated. All because his wife is a nurse and she works long hours and he was bored and I was a friend he would never meet. the thing is the guy was acting Co-GM and when I tried to bring it up to the other GM, they were buddies and he sided with his friend and I was demoted and placed on essentially a time out for trying to disrupt our guild with my drama. Guys on WoW are garbage. (I’m sorry for generalizing all the guys who play wow in this forum, I’m not talking about you, I’m just venting)
No, your story is worse than mine. I learned from mine and have grown from it, I’m more knowledgeable for being in that situation and can help people who get victimized that way. You were lied to by someone you trusted and your reputation was made worse because of it, when it sounds like it shouldn’t have. It sounds like you didn’t deserve that and I hope it doesn’t bring you down.
I’ve never done anything sexual in-game and have usually been a solo player, so this is all weird to me lol.
Thanks. It’s been three years now, and I’m no longer in any contact from anyone from my old guild, thankfully I think the guy ended up moving all his characters to Tichondrius… Good Riddance.
he was jealous I was a better tank than him, so I hope whichever guild has him now suffers terrible progression.