A clan is a privilege, not a right.
We’d like to begin by welcoming you to the community, and by extending our heartiest wishes for years of enjoyment in your World of Warcraft gaming experience. We especially appreciate your being here as a mature gamer, someone who is coming to what is often considered “a game for children, young adults, and the socially malformed” so late in life. We imagine that the lifetimes of experience in the “real world” you bring to our “virtual family” will enrich us unimaginably.
That said, we hope that you will understand our desire to provide a “word to the wise” in order to “head off at the pass” any potential misunderstandings, as well as to assist you in “steering clear” from any “faux pax” that might get you labeled an “oldster” or a “creeper,” as we can only imagine that this would take away from your WoW gaming experience.
And so.
Please try to refrain from asking after clan members ASL (age, sex, location). This is probably one of the most frequent misunderstandings in the WoW clan community. While we do encourage our members to “get to know one another,” we’ve found that the “ASL?” tends to suggest that the asking party is interested in more than getting to know their fellow clan members. On this same note, asking if people want to “private chat” or using phrases such as “hung hairy top, 35 here” will put your fellow gamers right off.
As will even phrases such as “hung smooth bottom, 19 here.”
While WoW is a “fantasy realm,” and while we do encourage you to develop a “gaming persona,” we’ve found that the more successful Adult Novice MMORPGers do not pretend that they are fifteen year old girls. That is to say, we’ve noticed a disturbing trend among (some, certainly not all) Adult Novice MMORPGers pretending that they are fifteen year old (often Asian) girls, and have found themselves roundly ostracized upon it coming to light that they are in fact thirty-five year old men from Indiana, usually when they begin posting inappropriate pictures of themselves.
Which leads to this: please refrain from posting inappropriate pictures of yourself (or portion thereof, hyperemic or otherwise, with or without Red Bull can or hairspray canister for comparison).This goes also for misleading photos.
This isn't you, or your girlfriend.
Finally, we’d like to “end where we began” by welcoming you once again to WoW, and to let you know that we comply fully with any and all cyber-policing agencies where “cyber-sexual misconduct” is evident or suspected.
You’ve been warned.
