Changes to the Stormrage Guild system

[Occhidiangela]

Maybe I'm just dense, but don't these two statements slightly contradict one another?  When would you consider new people a known quantity on the site?  Only those who post frequently and well thought out posts to boot?  What about those who don't care to post a lot, but love to lurk and read and are great in game? How will they become known enough to "allow" into the guild?  Tal's initiation stages in game help that out.  The new person sees lurkers helping other people (or is helped himself) frequently, parties with lurkers a few times, is a great player, asks to join but is turned down and told to go to a webpage and post before being considered?  Seems awfully cliquish to me.  With tal's intiation stage, he's in, and is more likely to visit the boards and become a part of the LurkerLounge.  It's more open, but still allows the maintaining of standards.
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To the group.

1. Treesh hits on an important point. Not everyone who loves to play and who is fun to play with is necessarily going to be an active poster on the site. Some folks play more and post less, yet are great fun to play with.

We may see, in the case of folks who are fun to play with, a slow escalation in forum game discussion as they feel more comfortable telling funny stories of raids gone amok, or well, or a neato game feature they want to discuss. Comfort zones differ.

That said, I agree with Mongo Jerry on how to approach getting a new player into the gang.

2. As to ranks, I agree with Mongo. Three is enough (one, two, five -- NO, three sir!) Guild Master, Lurker, and Initiate/Gekko/what have you/probationer.

The less formal and structured, the better.

My dos centavos

Occhi