Cliques are bad!

We all go through it, most of us during middle school and high school.  You become a part of your own little clique.  I myself was part of the art kid clique and was made fun of nearly everyday of my highschool career but there are others.

The cliques I'm talking about aren't during highschool, middle school or college, not even Real Life.  These cliques are those in MMOs.  After gaming with people for awhile, it's natural to be close and kind of be weary of new people that may come in.  That's ok.  It's another thing to completely ignore, shun or disregard other people or new people in a guild/clan because they haven't been there.  It's also completely wrong to start a clique, and then destroy a clan/guild because of it.

I've been the new person before, in fact, I'm a new person right now in a completely new guild AND new server for WoW.  I transferred in hopes of getting a new start.  The guild is friendly but I can already see that they have a set group that has been together for awhile...thats ok...but try to involve me in the conversations.  A few of the new people I transferred with have tried to become part of the conversations and were either ignored or just laughed at.  Now that doesn't make us feel welcome!

When someone new shows up, treat them with respect.  They are already uncomfortable in surroundings they don't know and people they don't know.  Making them feel welcome is the best thing you can do for them.  It will make the new stuff easier to adjust to and make them feel good about the decisions they made (joining the guild/clan, joining the server etc).

As the old saying says....Treat people the way you want to be treated.  And granted this isn't RL but there are still REAL people behind the characters who have feelings.