I was going to make a thread like this if one didn't already exist.

I was walking through North Shroud and saw a bear off the path. Nobody was around. It was unclaimed. I'm not in any hunting linkshells. I wasn't in a hunting party. I don't owe anything to anyone. I found it. I engaged it.

I fought it alone, down to 40%, when a PLD shows up. He tried to voke it off me. He's tossing his shield out... doing everything he can to pull it off me, and pull it out of range to reset. I'm a warrior though. I voke right back. Holmgang. The works. Suddenly his Alliance of Unattached Males™ show up. 20+ people. They hop off their mounts just in time to see it die.

I got called every name imaginable, blacklisted by who knows how many and even had a death threat in /tell (I reported you btw, in case you happen to read this). All because I had the audacity to fight a B rank mark without throwing up The Virgin Signal® to alert 100 people, whom I owe no loyalty, to it's presence.