Some forms of trolling (bullying or grieffing) like yelling at players or calling them noobs are obvious. This article and the two to follow are about some less obvious forms of trolling. I can't believe I'm quoiting Tom Cruse but; "People don't do things to be evil, they do it because they think there're right". Sometimes we think we're in the good, but if we look at what we're doing from the other side of the fence we see that we are a giant pain in the butt. The particular topics I'm going to cover will require an explanation as to how they are a form of trolling. Don't worry newbies, I'm going to list ways for you to help avoid feeding the trolls. The first form of trolling I want to talk about is grieffing or kicking new players in dungeon groups for not knowing the mechanics of the fight. I want to be very clear on this point. If a group leader or a tank fails to check to make sure all the members of the group have done the dungeon before or know how the fights work and end up wiping because of it, then the blame rests squarely on their shoulders. Just because you've been playing sense vanilla and you've run all the dungeons sense day one dose not mean that all players have. If you want better karma group leaders, take the extra time to check to see if everyone understands the fights. If they don't, then take the time to explain the fights. The time doing this will be far better spent than sitting in the que waiting to replace a group member. If a player doesn't know a fight but is unwilling to admit to it when asked, then it's on them. Also newbies remember, when you don't know a dungeon tell the group. I know that some groups don't want to wait around long enough for you to type in the message so I'm going to show you how to make a macro for it. First thing you're going to do is go to your chat window and type /macro and hit enter. A large macro window will pop up. At the top right their will be two tabs. One tab is for general macros, the other is for macros specific to the character your playing at the time. I would use a general macro as you may want to use this macro on more then one character. In the bottom right corned there are two buttons; new and exit. Click the new button. This will open a window where you can type in the name of your macro. I'd call this one "new". At this time you also select a icon from the menu for your macro. I would suggest that you pick one that you aren't likely to use for any other macros. I know we haven't covered these before, so what I mean is, I would pick a icon that doesn't match any of your abilities. Now that you've got your name and icon picked go to the bottom window and type something along the lines of the following. /say Sorry guys I'm new. I haven't run this dungeon before. Please be patient with me. Thanks. After you've done this your going to hit save. You have now written your first macro. You can now drag the icon from your macro menu down to one of your action bars. Now you can get this message out to your group with the click of a single button. Good luck. Sorry folks not a particularly funny article but I think it gets out some much needed information to new players and perspective to veterans. 
Remember we're all noobs, some of us just fly the flag a little higher.-Morison
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