Originally Posted by
Charge me Doctor
It's hilarious that people think that someones "reputation" will be "foiled" after he'll be accused of ninja looting in /1 or something. Usually people just laugh at those who accuse people of such things, and no one actually bothers with making screenshots of chat where loot rules are described, so most of the time "ninja" can say that he reserved that piece of loot, and his guildies and friends will gladly back it up (since most likely the did reserved it before adding pugs in their raid).
Even then, this guy just got his hands on a sweet piece of loot and became valuable character in late-vanilla, he won't be kicked from anywhere, in anything, depending on gear he may get poached because of that extra attention. Who would pass on a full-stocked tank warrior in late vanilla? Nobody. Even if he is a total asshole your guild will still have him around, because he makes a good training dummy for boss to hit and making a new one will take months.
Anyways, people romanticizing this whole "server reputation" thing are going to have bad time when they'll realize that most players won't give a damn about them yelling "ninja looter!" at someone
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How can you accidentally ninja loot? It's not like we are playing a version where FFA-by-default exists or loot master doesn't exist.
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Jesus, imagine you being called out in trade chat too many times by some angsty teen, because you disagree with him that Metallica - The One IS THE BEST SONG IN THE WORLD YO.
I'd say if things like you describe happened on your server - it was a crap server.
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Sadly, ninja looters usually were guys in charge of things, so these "guys don't invite him!" didn't" worked that well. You had an option to pass on raiding with him completely, and miss out of couple of raids (and would you really care about a rogue ninja if you play, say, a mage? or a priest? Not much, your gear is safe).
We had couple of known ninjas on warsong on horde side, they were shunned, players spammed a lot of crap on them in global chat, but one of them was leading raids and his guild was one of the biggest, and second was a well geared tank. They also were very chill about all that crap because i don't remember them ever responding to bullshit thrown at them, at some point i even considered that people simply were talking lies about them