I've always liked being part of different communities online, and I pretty much have been since I was into boy bands when I was 13 or so. I've been part of a toy and doll collecting community longer than I've been with the WoW community. The WoW community looks like a
tea party compared to the other! It's because of the high prices that dolls can go for in the other community ($2000+), and the fact that people can get custom items made from certain designers. People get jealous of other things people have; they get mad at the price of items; they even get mad about the friends you have. I used to like participating in the forums and posting my pictures to
Flickr, but I stopped once people began making pages to call out and say nasty things about other members. Thankfully I was never popular enough to get any negative attention, and the people I met there were really great.
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| Collecting toys and dolls shouldn't be so stressful! |
When I first joined the WoW community, I saw it as a nice and friendly place where everyone seemed to get along. We all had WoW in common! I blogged since I started raiding in BC with no one to read it except for a few close friends. This was a great way to get my posts out there. I do this because I enjoy the game. While I've seen others participate in arguments and disagreements, I never really had any. Recently I had my first negative experience, and hopefully it's my last. I don't have many followers, and I'm really not that interesting, but somehow one of my opinions seemed to upset someone. I wish I would have been privately messaged to discuss it, but looking back I reacted that way because I felt attacked by this person who I never had any previous contact with. I was waiting for others to jump in against me, but thankfully it didn't happen. I felt bad, but since I like to keep a public profile, I blocked the person. Later on that day I received many tweets and some DMs saying not to worry about it because this seems to happen quiet often with that person.
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| Toxic communities aren't fun and negativity can make you sick. |
I don't want to leave the WoW community, and I won't over something like this, but I won't stop posting my opinions either. I left that toy collecting community, and I check up on it often, but I feel like an outsider walking into a new place. I don't ever want it to be like that with WoW. Azeroth is my home, and just like any other video game I play, I play WoW to have fun. This is a hobby to me, not a job. I don't make money off of this blog, but I write here because I like the game, and I play the game because I enjoy all the wonderful people I've met through it. I have so many good memories here, and Velgana isn't done with exploring quite yet.
As with most of my venting posts, I will be disabling comments. Expect my blog to get back to normal next week since I had the death of my Grandpa and his funeral to deal with this week. I have a post on my Legendary cloak lined up along with an exploration post that a friend requested!
