I think it is extremely important to emphasize what I would call Smoggy being a weasel.
He insists that all communication happens in private. This leads to a lot of people not even knowing what is going on. Also in private he is not the "Hallooooo!" Smoggy we all really like. Rather he is a "my way or the highway and if you choose to disagree with me openly or repeatedly I will boot your *** and spin some yarn about why I had to let you go". It is completely night and day.
There were a bunch of concerned officers and players. Myself, Nexa, Nadenu, DSD etc who were aware of these types of actions before they happened and were kind of like "I would never think Smoggy would be that way". It took us by suprise. However when Yanari got the boot we kind of perked up our ears.
I volunteered to sit down and try to chat with the guy. Afterall I helped him start the guild, have been nothing but supportive of the guy. He was completely unreceptive, rude, confrontational and when I pushed the issue in a public forum he started threatening to demote me among other things.
Finally last night while I was in WSG he demanded to talk to me. I told him if he could give me some time I would be more than happy to chat with him. He then was like "I dont have time, I am going to demote you tomorrow unless you shape up". So I logged on this morning. I was demoted, I tried to chat with him friendly like. He was not at all receptive. So I was like F'uck it. It is just a game and I dont care to deal with his ******** so I ended all ties with the problem, other than my ragging on about it on this thread.
edit - Graendel or Grimthor are my toons on Mal.
Edited, Thu Mar 2 15:21:39 2006 by bodhisattva
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