The Guild Bank

This morning I was sitting in trade chat watching accusations fly by, and a thought came to mind over what was discussed.

There were people in trade accusing another person of stealing something from a guild bank. These people were threatening to report him to Blizzard Entertainment.

Have we ever thought of where the line stands between Blizzard Entertainment and Guild Leaders and their Justicars?

Usually disputes within guilds are handled by the guild themselves not by the game masters.

The biggest dispute that I have been enountering is that someone is invited into a guild, the guild bank is left open, and they then proceed to remove items from the guild bank (whether it be a green or an epic or mats or whatnot. They then are either kicked or leave the guild with the same mats in their hands.

Then they are berated in trade chat and are threatened with reporting to Blizzard because they removed an item from an obviously open guild bank.

What people don't realise is that Warcraft is a social game. Blizzard is technically there to solve coding issues, or misaloccated loot or to fix bugs. They are not there to mediate our own internal guild issues.

An Easy solution to the Guild Bank "Ninja" is this: Lock down your guild bank, only allow withdrawls by the Guild Leader and the Justicars (Officers). Or, in my raiding guild on Draenor (US), you need to be a full member to be able to access the guild bank,, and then that is even limited to 1 or 2 stacks a day, and only from certain tabs.

Protecting your guild bank is easy, you just need to take the time to do it, and for the love of god, don't air your dirty laundry in Trade Chat!