Can we get a "Sticky" thread to post Professions?

[Kevin]

By the way, you're all more than welcome to utilize the tracking tools on the CA site (so long as you're on Stormrage -- I think we could tweak things to make it available to multiple servers, but I don't want to get ahead of myself... if that changes, I'll be sure to mention it).
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dunt dunt duunnnnn!

And the worms are wriggling. Just another example of the the strange little spot the lurkers are in. To quote Bolty in the thread I keep refering too

And if we DON'T set up a forum for a server that has a high population, we risk the inevitable: that players will drift off of this site for wherever else it gets hosted. If you're actively involved in a guild matter like that, there's a good chance that the guild affairs will take precedence over the site for which it was founded. The Amazon Basin is a guild that basically broke off of a Diablo II fansite (guess which one? No, not this one smile.gif) and became a huge entity in of itself. I'd hate to see the Lurker community get divided like that.

And here is the invitation to do just that. It's not the same situation Bolty refers to. Darian was just being friendly and open because he likes playing with Lurkers, he's honestly trying to help and there is a place that has done much of the guild work already. I know that and I think that is pretty damn cool too. But I started thinking to myself, yeah I could use the carpe arnum website stuff. Then I thought to myself that I'd probably start spending more time at that site and hey they are good people, heck I've been playing with several of them anyway for quite some time. Heck they contribute at the lounge too but since I'm using their resources why don't I just join their guild, it's just easier for me to track my stuff that way. Darian's quote was just a great example of what Bolty was talking about. Just a good illustration of some of the points so I used it. :)

It's innocent, there were no ulterior motives from anyone in that hypothetical and Darian's post I quoted has none either. I had similar thoughts to that one before Darian's post that prompted me starting the other thread. Heck I've been asked by people about the feasability and/or ease of using some other web host to make a stormrage.lurkers.whatever domain/site in the past.

I just feel this crossroads we are at, and while I don't think anything heralds the "death of the Lurker Lounge WoW content" this group will choose some path to follow that will shape the future of the site one way or another. We'll go down a path with or without discussion about it or conscious choice either. I think we can survive and thrive as a community that isn't a guild but plays in a guild. I also think we could surive and thrive with the same set of ideals as a site that embraces a guild but isn't about the guild. There are probably other ways to go that I'm not seeing either and I'm trying not to repeat myself from the other thread too much. I personally don't think it matters too much how we go as I've said the way I get enjoyment from the game can survive under several different support structures. What I like about the Lurker Lounge probably won't be horribly affected either by most paths either. But my nature still wants to poke and prod at this issue. Even if I'm making it bigger than it really is. :)


Edit: Typos will be the death of me!