Etiquette the Something Awful way
by Jennie Lees 
Jan 24th 2006 at 6:00PM
There's a great article over at Something Awful investigating the social conventions of WoW that we all hold so dear. Covering situations ranging from guild formation to party etiquette and GM petitions, the characters Galent and Gufus embody two very different types of players.
We all like to think we're Galent, but we've all encountered a Gufus at some time or other. Fortunately, thanks to the /ignore command, these encounters are easily dealt with. What's the worst example of behaviour you've encountered in-game? LFG and guild spammers are the most frequent, but as a healer, the "/yell PLZ HEAL" types annoy me the most.
Filed under: WoW Social Conventions
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
PodMonkeys Jan 24th 2006 3:52PM
I find a lot of people out there have stuck Caps keys.
And no patience. How about waiting a minute before asking again?
I've been responded to harshly for politely pointing out that /w is the more polite way to have a private conversation than /y.
Its also always fun to see people yelling for a port to darn, or complaining that no one will port them, for a whole 30 minutes, when they could have run/sailed/flew there in that time.
I'd say my least favorite behavior in WoW are all the openly racist comments, and people who have no problem making comments such as "We didn't bomb Hiroshima hard enough."
Penny Arcade really hit the nail on the head with their Internet/anonymity strip.