Never before have I ever been so annoyed to hear someone say that.

Im tired of posts like this that claim WG will never be a successful clan anymore without the old skool.
 
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Ex-WG Warlord

"It is our direction, not our intentions, that lead us to our destinations."

Thanks for proving my point.
 
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Hey! Not all old schoolers think that way! I have been in WG way longer than almost everyone who comes here to tout their old school credentials (Joined late January 2005, and have not left since) and if you look at my posts I am almost always at odds with what most of the old schoolers are saying. There are others too, like Tnuac and Mango, who are very old school but yet don't buy into the old school vs. new school rhetoric.

I think the problem is that most of the old schoolers have moved on, and who you are left with are those who for some reason have some kind of personality disorder where they need to share their input on everything that happens in the clan even when they are not in it and claim to not care about it.

Bassism, this is a rediculous proposal that you know will never happen, and I can't see why you would have proposed it unless it was to flatter your own ego and take a free shot at WG. You left WG on your own free will, now please just move on.
 
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Hey! Not all old schoolers think that way! I have been in WG way longer than almost everyone who comes here to tout their old school credentials (Joined late January 2005, and have not left since) and if you look at my posts I am almost always at odds with what most of the old schoolers are saying. There are others too, like Tnuac and Mango, who are very old school but yet don't buy into the old school vs. new school rhetoric.

I think the problem is that most of the old schoolers have moved on, and who you are left with are those who for some reason have some kind of personality disorder where they need to share their input on everything that happens in the clan even when they are not in it and claim to not care about it.

Finally someone has put it in a clear way which i was unable to do so. I totally agree with what you just pointed out Karl.
 
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First of all, it was a suggestion, not a dig.

There is no Wilderness left to guard.

I'm not saying WG can't be succesful without the "Old School", I'm just saying it needs to take a look at itself and get it's priorities right.

Mugger - I'm more inclined to throw abuse at you, learn to read, my name is Bassism, and I have a bigger pair than you for standing up and saying what I think knowing I'd get this sort of reaction.

Brandon - Who said anything about looking down on the new school?

Winddancir - What the hell does that post have to do with anything at all?

George - What staff? Abs? Who's never here? Or Rob and Dale, who when given opinions reply with "If I wanted your opinion I would ask for it" then make decisions that aren't needed?

Karl - Who said I don't care about this clan? How about you get off your pretentious self-righteous pedestal for once and open your eyes, if you read my goodbye you'd realise how much I DO care about this clan.

Tell me, when was the last time WG guarded anything? AntiRPKing events? Rune miner protection?

Wilderness Guardians do not Guard the Wilderness anymore. The title is counter intuitive.
 
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Hey! Not all old schoolers think that way! I have been in WG way longer than almost everyone who comes here to tout their old school credentials (Joined late January 2005, and have not left since) and if you look at my posts I am almost always at odds with what most of the old schoolers are saying. There are others too, like Tnuac and Mango, who are very old school but yet don't buy into the old school vs. new school rhetoric.

I think the problem is that most of the old schoolers have moved on, and who you are left with are those who for some reason have some kind of personality disorder where they need to share their input on everything that happens in the clan even when they are not in it and claim to not care about it.

Finally someone has put it in a clear way which i was unable to do so. I totally agree with what you just pointed out Karl.

Aye, Reece, yet another prime example of a very old school member who tries to resolve the apparent old school vs. new school conflict. I enjoy your posts Reece, there is some good common sense in them even when you are hung over.
 
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I said suggestion.

I didn't abandon WG, I simply no longer fit in in what it has changed into.

If I make a proposal that the members of the clan unanimously oppose, it does not show that I do not care about the clan. It shows that I was wrong.

I have no problem in being proven wrong. However the way I have been recieved has been far from heart warming.
 
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Correct.

The Wilderness Guardians are no longer Guarding the Wilderness.

Again, thankyou for proving my point.
 
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Wow is all i've got to say, and what would those names stand for if it weren't for the members who stood beside them loyally?
The only reason those names stand out to you and many others is because they were given the oppurtunity by all the fan boys/girls during council elections. I'm not saying that they weren't great, because i know they all are and i hold great respect for them, but if it weren't for the way council were chosen, some of those names may have been just the average member helping out the clan as much as they could with the power they had, which is practically nothing but words.
 
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I said suggestion.

I didn't abandon WG, I simply no longer fit in in what it has changed into.

If I make a proposal that the members of the clan unanimously oppose, it does not show that I do not care about the clan. It shows that I was wrong.

I have no problem in being proven wrong. However the way I have been recieved has been far from heart warming.

Err...Rick, you are the master of flame baiting, so please don't think me stupid enough to actually indulge you with a response. I do pay you homage though, that was a pretty good bait

Bassism, Its not exactly what you said, but how you said it. You associated WG with solely being old school and to us it sounds like you are saying the current WG was not good enough to maintain the title.

It is just hard for me to believe that as an ex-member that you want the name WG changed for solely the sake of accuracy.

It is common place to maintain names, traditions, and customs even after their reliance has long since disappeared completely. The reason is that it creates a historical lineage: a link from the present to the past that gives the current state of things some legitimacy. In other words, we want the name WG because to abandon it would create a historical break from the WG of the past.

Am I right in assuming that your motives are more along the lines of creating a historical break so you do not have to associate the name WG with the clan that you currently do not fit into?
 
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