On w51, I used to be in a tribe where an incident occurred. I was the duke of a 6-man pre-made that had merged into it. One of the barons and one of the normal members (let's call them player A and player B resp.) were making suggestions about how our new CoA should look like. Player A posted a picture of a girl he knew in real life and wrote "I'm trying to make her break-up with her boyfriend". Player B found the girl cute and wrote something along the lines of "she's hot, end me pictures of her
".
I was mildly disgusted and expressed my refusal to have a picture of her as our CoA, since she herself didn't know about it. I also told Player A to leave the girl alone in real life and not to send any links to pictures to Player B.
Mind you, I didn't have any power or anything. I was just a regular member, expressing my opinion. Player A kicked me out of the tribe and deleted many of the comments in that thread. When the duke asked him what had happened, Player A sent a mail saying "I didn't like what he said" and then, apparently, left the tribe.
People (mostly my former members) sent me mails asking what had happened. I answered them. Someone had also opened a thread. I wrote in that thread what had happened, and Player B showed up and filled it in. That's where it got ugly. Player B seemed to be unable to comprehend how I would even have the
audacity to suggest that Player A not send the picture links. The tribe itself is a pre-made with some additional players recruited from W51. Many of them (Player A & B included) were "veterans" from W8, so Player B considered me something of an "arrogant nobody-kid who came out of nowhere and started dissing the 'better' members" - apparently, it was wrong of me to speak out about my opinion. Never mind the fact that I couldn't care less about W8.
I replied that I wasn't just a "nobody" but a duke who had led a pre-made tribe, and that Player A was "dissing" me for having kicked me and deleted my posts, instead of responding in a mature manner. I proclaimed that I would not stand for being bullied around like some brat.
The other members were growing tired of our bantering, and told us to either stop it or take it by mail. I responded that I would stop it and that if someone ever wanted to mail me, they should go ahead but beware that I'd report them if I found it necessary. When I meant "reported", I meant in the case that I would get a mail saying "you're such a douchebag" or something. They obviously didn't understand my statement completely and saw it as some form of disloyal action. A friend who shared my sentiments regarding their creepy/stalkerish behavour told me that Player A and B are very liked in the tribe. So to most of them, I was probably viewed as some upstart troll with a big ego.
Me and my members got kicked (though I think some were given the option of staying). I had just recently restarted and wasn't close to any tribe-members. Otherwise I think they would've organised an attack on me.
I am now thriving.
The moral of this story? Well, if you don't like the tribe then don't be in it. It's unfortunate when bad people are good (and most of all, powerful) players (the tribe is in the top 15 listings), but that's how it is and I don't feel that the TW-team should step in. If I had been rimmed for my "insolence" towards my "betters", it would've sucked but this is only a game and I would continue on. Intra-tribal conflicts and grievances are part of Tribal Wars and I think that the game would become worse if the TW-team stepped in beyond what they already do.
Maybe next time try to gather the players who you know also disagree with the duke/bullies and do a mass-exodus. Send mass-mails to try to collect even more players. If it all fails, at least YOU and your friends know that you did the right thing.
I know I'll sleep well