i totally agree about the gear snobbing...
how many times have i been told that i was terribad and should just delete wow all together and stop giving wow players a bad name just because i was present in the BGs. funny how in that particular BG i had like 10 kills higher then everyone including alliances, i had about 10k more damage then everyone and how i even brought a flag back home. heck i even stopped 6 times in a row the other FC. that was before 3.2 though. yet people in that BG were telling me i was bad because i didn't have lucky fishing hat and AGM.
seriously, this is the problem we have in our little community, half of it is too self centered !
if the community was more open to new concepts and new idea's. i'm quite sure we wouldn'T even have half the problem we have now !
a good exemple are people switching battlegroup and server instead of advertising the twinks. i mean i once advertised for only 1 hour. and i got about 10 more people into twinking ! may they become bad or good doesn'T matter. my jhob was to find people who would like twinking and i did, it worked and now the community has 10 more twinks into it.
people are too afraid of blizzard knowing about us and killing us on sight is too great that now its hard passing above it. but we all know blizzard has been knowing long ago. it tries to keep us and tries to keep everyone else as well. but its not their goal to make people play one style more then another. thats our job !
i say let's make this advertising on forum about twinks.
other forums i say.
and then advertise in game for the 90% of the people who do not check forums.
do this for your twink guild.
"[Name of guild] is recruting twinks or whant to be twinks people of all types. whisper for details about what kinda twink we are."
i swear you do this for just 1 hour and you'll have a lot of people getting into your guild, they wont all be active or even staying as a twink, but i guarantee that at least you'll have done your job in helping the community grow !
it also is good to respect the choices of people and not blast them up right away !
its not because one doesn't have an AGM that he isn't skilled !