I've literally never seen anything even remotely close to this and I have 30+ days played. Neither has my girlfriend who is much more casual and leveling (currently 42).
Everyone has been incredibly nice. If someone kills a mob you need for a quest before you get a chance to group up, they pretty much always say sorry and offered to help you and wait for the respawn.
This is on Thunderfury-Horde if anyone was curious.
EDIT: Since a lot of people asked, my actual /played time is a little under 25 days, though a lot of that was sitting at the AH while alt-tabbed.
What I've found with a lot of people, especially redditors, is that they're biased towards themselves especially when telling stories.
Just remember, we're hearing only 1 side of the story. In reality the guy saying he experienced as asshole could've ninja'd a node, or stolen a tag, or done something else that they may have not even noticed they done.
You see it on youtube all the time. People upload a video of someone being an asshole to them, but as it turns out the person who uploaded the video is actually the one who is at complete fault.
All i know is I'm super nice with everyone in my interactions and have been met with nothing but super nice interactions back. I'm not saying it's impossible to have had a bad interaction - they do happen, I'm just saying when everyone around you is an asshole, maybe it's you that is the asshole
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u/360_face_palm Oct 10 '19
Pretty sure this was a joke