My experience with the OGZ community.
Now don't get this twisted, I'm not here to bash their community, or communities in general. I'm sure there are some perfectly outstanding people within that community. I may have just been unlucky and dealt with all the less-than-favorable ones.
The application process: Took three days and seven people to be able to find and accept my application where I got tossed around between people who either didn't know what was going on, weren't responding, or just simply couldn't be bothered.
The intro process: This was actually a very pleasant experience where someone of rank tells you about all that the community has to offer, what games they deal in, how to get promoted, in house tournaments, how to become a premium member etc etc. Very nice person who did it unfortunately I can't remember for the life of me who that was.
The team joining process: You fill out an application stating your role, availability, etc. A typical generic application. I didn't have a person even add me over the entire time I was with the community that however is not the communities fault, and realizing that a couple days in I decided to fill out an application to become a team leader, was never found and/or processed and/or accepted/denied.
Finally got offered a try out: one of the higher ups said they knew of a team looking for 5th and asked if I would be interested in trying out I said sure (a few days earlier I had honestly started looking for teams outside of OGZ so this kind of came as a shock)
The day of the tryout: I had a member of the team on my friends list, and someone else had added me. He told me he wanted to duo queue with me as my try out. I expressed to him how I would feel more comfortable trying out with the rest of the team. He would continue to try to reason with me that his way was better. I (in my opinion) remained very professional and respectful and just tried to explain to him that I really just wanted to try out with the rest of the team and he (finally, and reluctantly) complied with my request. I then noticed that one of the team members declined, I then noticed with was with the person whose team I had already scheduled a tryout with, to which I said "dude I have a tryout with your team in an hour". Oh I forgot to mention at some point during the conversation the individual said something along the lines of "the clock is ticking, if you don't decide to try out with me you'll be a sub or not on the team at all" basically trying to bully me into doing things his way. At some point later in the conversation I asked "who is the leader of this team?" he said "XXXXXXXXX (i'm not going to name drop, that's just rude) and I said okay, well not to be a dick, but he told me to do this, and it sounds to me like you're trying to micromanage the team" I told the team leader what was going on and he told me just to ignore it basically. The other guy kept blowing my league messenger up so I (temporarily) deleted him until what would have been my try out. To which I'm guessing he went to the team leader and QQ'd saying I deleted him to which the team leader messaged me basically saying if I can't get along with their ADC then he's just going to cancel my try out. That's understandable, if I had just been a dick, but I hadn't.
Post-"tryout": I decided that this whole community thing might just not be my cup of tea, so I message the person who found the try out for me and politely said "hey I don't think this whole community thing is for me, I appreciate you trying to find a team. This there a way for me to delete my application for a league team and delete my website account." (because they BLAST your email address with notifications of events or promotions which I understand.) to which that person replied "upper right hand corner" and removed me I tried to add the person back to get additional instructions, and they rejected my request. and I'm just like... ooooookay? that's real specific.
Anyway. I'm not here to put the community or the individuals on blast, but are all communities like this? It kinda felt like being a peon at a big business on their first day. Am I possibly in the wrong and I just don't see it?