Changes to the Stormrage Guild system

[Tal]

Thanks, Tal.  You're awesome.  I want you to know that, and I want to publicly acknowledge how great your help has been.  [right][snapback]64300[/snapback][/right]

:blush: Thanks sir. I am trying to do the best that I can for the Site and my friends on Stormrage. I hope you don't view my statements in this thread as counter to your authority in these matters. My intentions align with your own, we just disagree on how best to implement it. :)

However, I would like to clarify this point by quoting from the "Vision for the Lurker Lounge: World of Warcraft" post:
This is not the same as letting people do whatever they will with the in-game Lurker guilds.  If someone were to start a kill-on-sight or hacker guild called the Lurker Lounge, I'd certainly be upset.  And in this less extreme case, while I would prefer a "hands-off" policy on minutia like tabbard design and the discipline of individual players, I feel that it is important that I weigh in on this overall policy discussion on the recruitment of new players, since it does impact the way that other players will perceive the site.
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This is indeed true. I believe our recruiting and my present course of action preserves this vision. I would like to sit down with you at some point and discuss the Lurker Lounge behavior list.

I do think that these changes are being blown out of proportion. No one is any more important as far as Lurkers go in the Lounge. I wouldn't be human if I didn't say that some folk's opinions mean more to me than others. For example, Treesh has been a person I go to for consul and to talk over matters. You will notice though that I didn't ask her to be a Lounger. In the same vein I frequently don't agree with Lissa on the best way to do things in game but I value his opinion and trust him to know what a "Lurker" looks like, to give sound advice (even if I don't always agree) and to help mediate personality conflicts and therefore he was tapped to be a Lounger. The position of Lounger is really meant to help me out with the day to day operation of the guild and to keep the fun rolling. I'm trying to look down the road and provide a framework now to keep the Lurkers on Stormrage from collapsing due to entropy or worse yet a blow to the reputation of the Lurker Lounge.