Forgive the rant, need a place to let some steam off

[Lina]

*EDIT: Sorry, adblock squished it, spaced out now.

*Rant START*
So I'm having to quit an mmorpg or at least a certain aspect and server of it that I enjoy because of drama reasons.
I found a guild I finally enjoyed a whooole lot, but a former guild member started defaming it.
And it turned into such widespread defamation that it was all over in game chat.
Then it showed up in the forums.
Then social media.....
I tried to fight it in some form, but bringing it up was just seen a causing MORE drama even when it was simply defending a guild of people who did nothing wrong.
If I ignore it nothing gets done but if I fight it it feeds the troll.
There's no winning.
And so....
Had to ragequit.
Yup.
Pretty damn pissed, but at this point I just want to avoid the game for a while, and when I play again I'll play on a different server because I'm bitter that I could get NO support from fellow gamers within the specific server this affected.
So there.
I'll just play a different mmorpg and really hope that any drama that happens doesn't get so widespread that there's no escaping it.
*Rant END*

Now to actually bring up conversation, has drama ever made you quit an online or gaming community?
Is there a reasonable way to handle it that I'm not considering?

[Abhorsen]

yeah wizardry online drama made me quit that game lol, after the beta was over and launch came i decided to remake the guild we had, and if the old leader came online i was gonna give the leadership back to him, but he didnt show up for weeks. so i decided to be a new leader and recruit new players and help newbies. and some asshat in the guild suddenly wanted leadership himself, saying i was doing a bad job. he even contacted the old leader on skype and made him come online to tell me to give him the leadership of the guild even though he wasnt playing the game anymore. the majority in the guild was on my side, but most of the old core members took the asshat's side and they started threatening me that if i didnt give up the leadership they would reform a new guild and pk us.

anyway in the end i gave the leadership away, i quit, and a week or 2 later the guild died. making me regret my decision. i should have just made them reform the guild and accept the PK war lol.