Duraiel mentioned Highmountain, that’s when it clicked.
There was some of that (hearthing, not voiding), because some of the players involved said they got anxious and weren’t really interested in the encounter.
I think this is a very pertinent and honest point.
I had this conversation a fair while ago with my good friend and buddy and pal Loras. Roleplayers are genuinely some of the trashiest people (this isn’t unique to WoW), they are very willing to label a group or person as a target for doing some misdeed and then go on to talk about them, rumour-monger and generally foster an air of ostracism around them. They’ll keep screenshots and chat-logs for years, just in-case they ever double-cross them again. And the worst part is some of the people who are so vehemently against the PCU do this despite their claim for a moral highground or being a victim. There are a lot of stones thrown in glass houses. Hell, rumours don’t even have to be true but they wont care to validate them. Or they’ll just ignore evidence on the contrary. Like that time I got labelled a troll and lambasted for something someone else did at an event I was attending myself.
The ‘community’ is very much laced with double-standards, like I said in the Alliance thread. There’s no wrong methods, just wrong targets. People really need to stop living too vicariously through their roleplay.