Maybe I'm alone here but it seems like in any group of people there's a certain percentage that no matter what you do you just don't really like them. Generally it's more people in larger groups and one or two in smaller groups. I'm not particularly a people person but I do try to be nice and respectful to the extent that I am able. Sometimes, however, there's a hot button topic and I have to speak my mind or *gasp* even argue with someone about it. Again, I try to be respectful but I accept that sometimes I may come off as mean or just argumentative.
Occasionally there are groups of people within a group that I simply do not get along with and am tired of trying to see their good sides. I also realize that I may be in this group for other people (though I assume not to the people reading my blog regularly!). So what do you do? I want to spend time and chat with the other people of the larger group but not necessarily the smaller group of people. Sometimes I just excuse myself from the large group.
What do you do when this happens to you? Leave? Ignore the smaller group? Or grin and bear it and just keep trying to find something you like about them?
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Difficult and un-fun situation. I'd probably speak up somewhere along the line with the individual(s) and let him know that there's a problem. I try to be ridiculously polite myself, but there's one person in particular in-game that I can't seem to tolerate and makes me want to stab kittens or something every time he opens his mouth. I tend to limit the amount of time I spend with him, but do make an effort to group up or talk every week for the sake of being supportive and not unkind.
If you absolutely can't stand that individual and don't need to interact with him, then don't.
Tricky one, isn't it? :/
I tend to think it's a case by case situation. Pillock in /trade chat? /ignore. Pillock in guild? /ignore, unless I'm an officer, in which case I feel obliged to not have guildies on ignore. Pillock in other social situation? Mostly, try and put on the polite face, ignore him, and occasionally blow off steam by ranting about them privately or having a good old debate in public.
That's not particularly satisfying, it's just the best I've got.
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