>Your irrational, almost obsessive hatred of another player is
>just going to keep you from seeing the reason of it.
>
>I've pissed in your wind enough. I'm not in the mood for
>giving you ten posts that aren't going to persuade you anyway
>today.

Well, for the record, I'm not sure if this exists or not. But it would be cool if backstage somewhere there was a guideline as to what constitutes as "gear-whorey" and what does not. Or whether some rank sitting conjurer/druid should get a title, or whether they should not. It just seems sorta arbitrary. One person's actions get punished, another defended and it pretty much all boils down to which imm is observing and what their personal opinions on the subject are.

It'd be equally cool if that guideline could get formalized somewhat and put somewhere. Sorta like a paladin's code only not as strict. Specifically for alignment issues and OOC mechanics issues.

My biggest problem is consistency and honestly not knowing what is wrong or kosher, since opinions tend to flip flop over time. Like if I rolled a rank sitting shaman tomorrow, would I get titled/unempowered or left alone? I have no idea and probably it would depend on cabal/imm involved, and what their personal opinion is. That really makes it difficult for me as a player to know whats acceptable and whats not. I think many of us don't feel like ranking all the time and would like good gear to PK with and etc, but we don't gear-whore/ranksit because we're afraid of some invisible hand beating us or think someone's going to reward us for not doing that. Unfortunately, the entire process seems dependant on blind luck.