Damn it… 
People forget that the roleplay community is a community of communities with inner communities made up of even smaller communities. It’s why talk of “-race- community is BAD” has always annoyed me.
While i’ve voied several times that the Horde shoulda gone group-led over warchief post-Garrosh. I think that, if handled right, the Horde could get some decent lore from where it’s left atm.
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I think it’s a lot easier to avoid drama than most people seem to believe. Keep things IC, focus on your RP, don’t take any bait and the chances are you’ll keep yourself free from it.
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the real challenge tbh is that drama is just really fun in the moment and I think everyone sneakily knows that.
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Yeah 
I do my best not to let myself get invested in it like I used to, but I don’t always succeed.
There is just a lot of bad blood OOC between people it seems. That is not something that is easily fixed, if it can be fixed at all anymore.
I do not think that the Horde RP community will ever be united again.
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The fact there’s so much bad blood to begin with should seem really weird to all of us. World of Warcraft is a video game and roleplay is a hobby. Why should we get to the point where we detest other players so much that we actively wish for them to be removed from the game or for their roleplay to be ended?
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That concept just breaks down the moment you join a community though because of the OOC involvement that comes with it. Of course the solution to that would be to not get involved with any of the communities, but that’s also not ideal. My current community just offers the most consistently good RP that exists on this server.
Also it’s just exciting to watch the drama, as Tehya said.
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Precisely. It should not be so. But I am not sure if it can be fixed.
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True, that reminds me how people got so hyper active over things OOC there are guilds that STILL ignore each other to this day over things that are way bigger than simple accusations of metagame and powerplay.
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Even then, it doesn’t take too much effort to just dip out of any discussion when it becomes inflammatory.
This I cannot deny…
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One side calls the other one nazls. It’s kind of hard to move past that.
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I cannot speak for anyone else, but I personally just want to have fun and enjoyable RP with other people.
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I get that - I wasn’t pointing fingers. I don’t really know enough about the main feud mentioned in this thread to comment on it besides the various threads that have cropped up.
Spoken like someone who has never had his address dropped on Pastebin / doesn’t have funny TRP alts following you around loads. It’s easy to preach when you’re basically free of everything but the lowest level of internet conflict
It’s absolutely easy to dislike people online. Pretending that there’s some magical divide between not liking someone IRL and not liking them online is such a boomer mindset. If you don’t like someone you don’t like them. The medium isn’t that important and actually I would argue that people are way more vicious online (for obvious reasons)
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It’s rather simple. Partisan politics has catched up to RP. The trenches between different groups, guilds or people have been dug so deep at this point, that traversing them has become a game of minesweeper.
There is this pressure or notion in the air that you can only be playing with one group or the other and dont you dare to interact with the other because of x.
Ontop of that come all of these accussations, witch hunts, sh*ttalking, hearsay stories and whatnot that are just thrown into the mix to discredit one group or the other. And no Horde community is excempt of having biases. May they be OOC, IC or whatever. This is a issue that runs through the whole of AD RP. On Horde we just feel it more, because we are relatively few in numbers.
Personally I am at a point where I solely just try to focus on my own guild and it’s members. I dont have the time or energy to engage with this quite complicate partisan landscape of AD politics and thus try to stay as far away from it as possible.
I am pretty sure I contribute in that way myself to the splintering of the “horde RP” community. But what the hell is a mon supposed to do.
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The whole divide has been pushed up pretty hard by some bad faith actors and that’s why it’s simply not going to calm down again until at least one side stops playing the game. The well has been so thoroughly poisoned at this point that the gap can’t really be bridged anymore.
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And with hobbies, everyone exercises them at different levels of quality, and you can’t just mix hobbyists of different qualities without getting some friction.
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Agree 100% even though we are arguably on different sides of the divide
There comes a point where there’s no point playing ambassador and you realise that you already have plenty of cool people to RP with without having to pander to people you don’t actually like
I am much more invested in making sure my guildies, my friends and my community are having a great time than concerning myself massively with OOC PR campaigns
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I definitely understand dislike. I do and have disliked plenty of people on the game. The address/pastebin stuff is pretty vile (and not something I’d heard about), but it lends itself to my point - why would someone hate you or anyone else so much that they’d do that?
It just doesn’t make sense to me. What do the people in question achieve by doing that? The answer is nothing, or their own detriment since if they throw 
they’ll get it thrown straight back at them.
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