Arena Gank Squads and Mindbending Blues

Remember my post about Death Knights? I pointed out how, in that interview, Tom Chilton (aka Kalgan) made an odd remark about arenas and ganking? Here's the quote from Kalgan:

"It will also be a lot of fun in arenas where you could pull a guy right into the middle of your gank squad."

I added [sic] to that comment because it made no sense. "Ganking" means one player or group destroys players that don't stand a chance to fight back due to level differences, low health, poor gear, or anything that makes the ganker way more overpowered than the gankee. Aren't we supposed to be matched up fairly in arenas? Isn't that especially what the new system is supposed to be designed to do?

Yesterday, Blue Community Manager Bornakk, aka the guy on the right, made this increasingly confusing post to "clarify" how arena team and personal ratings will be calculated for Season 4. It houses such doublespeak as this:

"The adjustment to a team’s personal rating can vary based on the average personal rating of the other team while team ratings will always adjust based directly on the team rating of the other team."

If I know one thing about writing, it's this--if you can't explain something simply, it's likely because you can't figure it out yourself. Clever level 1 alt Enginee warns Bornakk that s/he sees right through this smokescreen of a system:

"This system facilitates and encourages GRIEFING.... They can, anytime and over and over, reset average PRs to 1500, 1600, 1900, whatever they wish...and beat up on teams 100s of rating below them for kicks. There is zero, nada, negative repercussions to resetting PRs, no downside. So instead of searching the empty Outlands for someone to gank, they can grief teams."

Bingo! So this is what Tom Chilton meant by arena ganking. I finally feel like I am on the same page as the Blizzard developers. And I mean that sincerely, no snark. World of Warcraft is constantly changing--some might call it evolving, some might say devolving--as it's an ongoing MMO. So, the question that comes about in the end is always: Are these changes acceptable to you?