I don't know why so many people give BA premades trash for claiming instances.

[Fiorinol]

I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to strong arm this one a little bit. For the record; I'm banned from the Aether discord and I "snipe" portals, but other discord servers laugh at it on the daily through screenshots, and I notice it's always the same handful of people shilling for it on here who don't seem to understand why some people might not like their discord. Here's a quote from one of the players in that very same discord that says that it's "against harassment":

"Well in regards to snipers, one in particular. Moral of the story... send a report every time. When they catch her slipping up (ie kills someone with an orb) she'll get the hammer. Also send anything she writes. I believe GM's are looking for a way to help, but unless a report is sent everytime she snipes they won't have the ammo needed to get her"

Now I'm not sure whether this refers to someone who actually griefs. I don't think it is considering this person wants the player to "slip up" to report them for screwing up mechanics. This is just straight up targeting a player and harassment.

Because some 3rd party wrote a rule list doesn't mean it's applied, especially considering the Aether Discord is run by a Free Company that has a laundry list of ToS violations, notably RMT and botting, you can always look it up on Reddit. Not only does the GM tell this player that any player can take any portal, and that it is first come first serve, he seems to think that the GM agrees with his holy crusade. Later on, he goes as far as implying that he will throw himself in mechanics to attempt to get "snipers" banned.

I'm well aware this probably isn't the opinion of the people in this thread, but it makes the Discord look like a bunch of idiots whenever this happens. There was also a thread on Reddit where yet another Aether discord player wrote a novel about how much the aether discord agrees that stabilizers don't matter to them and that they will defeat the evil "snipers".

You really need to clean up house. I'm not going to start about the attitude of people who think that you can get "carried" through this content, as well as the attitude of people who seem to seriously believe that taking a portal and doing the content is the same as going in with the sole intention of wiping parties to AV or Ozma mechanics.

As for the OP of this thread. People trash the BA discord because of things like this and because you seem to have 2-3 gentlemen/women picking fights with people in the instance in some of the groups. Yesterday I was in an instance where a player got harassed by someone else, and that someone else taunted them to "report me to the GMs you *insert nice insults here*". While that's perhaps not representative of the rest of the players, that's what people remember. As far "No PUGs try BA", that's a chicken and the egg question, the existence of the discord makes it so most people will join that, and thus won't pug at all. I think I wouldn't be too far off the mark by saying that most people in there don't want to step up and party lead, which leads to certain people complaining that nobody will party lead.

I also won't reply to answers to this post, making that clear; This isn't me trying to have an argument.