Arisen; Evolution part 1

[Siph]

Hey guys...

I've been thinking alot about Arisen lately. And I got some stuff on my mind, that I need to let out. Mostly because I really want to get this guild to 40 raid instances.

So here we go:

1) Activeness
Who wants to take part in building up the guild? Who wants to use your online time to do guild related stuff, when you aren't doing all the fun stuff? Who wants to do some guild related stuff when you are offline? In short: Who wants to be officer?

The reason I ask is because we got some not so active officers (Co-Gms) and council members. And if people wont put that much time into the guild or is using more time on al'akir, maybe it's not you who should take up that spot.
Don't get me wrong, but if you want to tag along and have fun with us, it's fully understandable and you should, because we are good friends by now, and share alot of the past year's adventure.
But if we want to go all the way, we need active officers. And I'm sure you guys can understand that.

2) Officer ranks
We got two officer ranks. Co-GM and Council members. But what is the function of those ranks?

I think we should make some guide lines for what's who job, etc.
So it would be really nice if you guys got some comments/ideas to this.

3) Promotion/Demotion
We should also have some guide lines for promotion/demotion. When have people earned a promotion? We don't want people to beg for a rank. It's easier to say to them what they have to do to get it, than to say: "Eehh... giev epix". (And it's also more reasonable )

4) The Website
I got a suggestion. I got an idea. Why only have one layout? Why not have different themes like night elf theme, human theme, dwarf theme, etc?

Just an silly idea, but let me know what you think.

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Well, think that's it for now. Let me get your feelings about what's written.

And Lightreaver and Satura... did I forget anything?

- Una

[Raine]

You raise some good points here Una.

We really do need active officers (council members) as this is the part of the guild required to keep the guild functioning. If the guild isn't function, members are going to get bored quickly and move on. This is something we must make sure doesn't happen.

Whenever I'm on WoW - I'm on Hakkar, so I'm committed to making this work.

Haven't got anything to add on Officer Ranks at the moments, But I'll have a think.

As for Promotion and Demotion, I have a really good idea and its mainly becuase alot of new members arn't signing up to the forums. So I reckon intially we'll have to link Promotion to the forums somehow. For example:

"Promotion to 'Rank 1' to Rank 2' requires a certain degree of activeness, both in game and on our forums" This includes:

Being in the guild for a duration of 2 weeks

'X' Amount of forum posts

'X' Amount of guild events attended?

Just a few ideas of how we could determind who gets promoted.

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The website, ugh.. not sure. I'm happy to give my opinions on designs though

[Satura - Allexia]

About something like this for the promotion, Demotions:

Promotes -
recruit ( rank 1 - new members)
Member (rank 2 -After a 2 week trail promote to this rank, Keep track of membership time in the officer note on players.)
Rank 3 and above. based on: Forum activeness and ingame activeness, General kindness/intergration within the guild, and Participation with guild events (including raids, instancing and guild meetings etc.

Officer rank - Voted by other officers and like wise ranks.

Demotions - Only as a warning or long time offline periods without given a reason etc.

Maybe a guildrank cap based on forum activeness. Rank 3 could require a profile to get to at least.

Editing the layout of this post later today..