We are well and
truly back, it's been a couple of weeks since my last blog but I'm just finding
my feet with this and have not committed to a regular schedule at the
moment. Especially as things are still
quiet on server.
Recruitment is going
pretty well I have added at least 8-10 new players to the guild in the last
fortnight, not bad for a pretty dead server.
I'm expecting the next week to kick off being a week before launch and
the week after launch to be good also with many players returning hopefully to
find as I did that their guild is a bit dead, and looking for a new one. Hopefully many of my old guild mates will
also return.
Having been away I
had forgotten the inherent laziness of people.
In leadership of my guild I think it's important to be fair,
consistent and upfront with people, to
that end I put all the guild rules up on the website along with posts about
what the guild is about, I keep the forum sections clearly labelled so it's
easy to know where to look for things.
Forum sections we
have:
Guild Scope and
Rules
Announcements
Discussion
Raids & Raid
Rules
MoP Preparation
Gear
PVP
Social Events
Vice - Our Hordeside
sister guild
Ok so not
particularly a small list but you don't have to be interested in all of
them. For instance if you want to join
the guild to raid then maybe check out the Raid and Raid Rules forum.
But no people can't
be bothered to tab out of the game a look at a forum. I don't mind so much if some one is
responding to my barking in trade, maybe your speaking to a number of people
about their guild, maybe you just want to talk to a real person in the guild
and get an idea about them first hand before deciding to join, fine. Personally I'd never join a guild without
having a look at their forum, but that's just me.
What really annoys
me is when people have joined the guild and you have to bully them into
registering and answer each and everyone of their questions over and over again
when all the info is on the website.
These are the same people that are always surprised when they miss out
on things because they didn't know. Take
an active role in getting involved then.
Communication in a
guild is a nightmare. Really there is
nothing that you can guarantee that people are going to see, or pay attention
to. The guild message of the day I'm
sure must get lost in the addon log-on spam that most players will get these
days and it's sadly lacking in functionality and character length anyway
(actually I've just logged on and realised that it doesn't appear until all the
spam is gone, so it's just lazy, ignorance then!). Would be nice if the default UI gave and
option to copy and paste a link URL from
it, I have an addon that does this but some won't. Would be nice if it were a bit more
prominent. Star Wars had a pop up when
you logged on that you had to click close, this is not the most elegant
solution, and you can easily find yourself clicking it away without looking,
especially if you were logging multiple alts, it did become something of an
annoyance - maybe only pop up once a day or when it's changed?
There's also the
guild calendar - more notification functionality on this would be of use
also. A little question mark in the top
right hand corner is not nearly obvious enough for lazy tunnel visioned players
who want everything on a platter for them.
Some sort mail all
accounts in guild option would be excellent, the tech must be there I've seen
it with receiving pets and stuff from Blizz (they now only come to the first
char I log on to, or possibly all until I open it). That would be an excellent
way of directing your lazy guildies to actually understand what is happening in
guild and get involved.
All of these things
are surmountable. For instance in our
guild, guildies only get out of the lowest rank and access to GB repairs if
they register on the forum (which is also explained in another forum post, so
they would know that if they went there), You can keep telling people to check
the GMOTD though the day in /g to get people to look at it, although that sort
of defeats the point, you may as well tell each player individually, a raid
application to join the raid team also, forces them to go the website, aswel as
ensuring that your raid team can at least work a web bowser and type coherent
sentences, (well their name a least). I
managed to harangue my old guildies into frequently checking the website and
the GMOTD, so it's a culture thing, but when you are in a heavy recruitment
phase like we are now big banners pointing the newbies to how things work in
your guild would be a large boon.
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