Old Drama Re-Stirred

Forums are great for stirring up shit.

And, for the most part, once a forum discussion is started, unless you've got good moderators or you've personally got control of the forums, there's no way to stop the momentum of discussion that you started.

Sometimes, that momentum slows for a while; even stops. Then, someone does something weird, re-reads the old discussion thread, and responds to it, bringing it back "from the dead".

Some folks call this "thread necromancy", raising dead threads back to life.

Here's a necromanced post about the guild Channel Five News Team on Alexstraza (wave to a certain Troll who lives there and reads here), which apparently came from the guild Myst on that same server.

The original post is about BlackWing Lair adventures, and how a Judgement Breastplate fell and the Loot Council/Officer Team voted that someone other than the top-DKP person receive the loot upgrade.

No explanations given, no remorse felt, no excuse for breaking their own rules "the officers" ( if you decide to call them that then that is your problem) decided that Ferarro needed it more than the person with the highest DKP, yet both were wearing items with the approximate same ILvl.

From what I can tell from the Officer responses that told their side of the story, the original poster (posting on an alt of course) isn't even one of the two people who were in competition for the Breastplate that dropped!

The best part of the initial posting, from my opinion, is the implication that because one of the players in question is a female, the main problem "must be" that there's some "lovey-dovey" stuff going on, clouding the Loot Council's vision:

I encourage all my realm mates to watch the flirtatious /rub /love /kiss crap from Ghostt to Ferraro and from Blackfreid. It is enough to make you sick. Of course, there were no predispositions to Ferraro. Consider that Ghostt can be found running her alt through many low level instances. Black's continual lovey dovey emotes to her. What happened was fair? I mean fairness is what is in mind when DKP is awarded? Yes? Please go duel outside to see who gets the girl. Leave the fools who follow you to be treated fairly and equitably.

That, of course, is refuted in a clean, clear way later on in the thread.

I'm not sure why this thread was raised from the dead, exactly, but hey, it's drama and that's what this blog is all about!

Quote from one of the Officers who responded:

Let's get the most retarded out of the way and address your childish, 5th grade rumors spreading about lovey dovey/relationships/favoritism hilarity. I'll ignore the fact that you're obviously a coward