Changes to the Stormrage Guild system

[LavCat]

Your earlier statements would indicate that you are in favor of excluding people:
This in itself is a contradiction. All members should come from the ranks of the forums but the guild is supposed to drive quality participants to the forum? I'm assuming you mean people from outside the guild when you state this but to me this is just asking for the "wankers" that Mongo doesn't want to show up.
If you look at those threads I stated that I would prefer there be no hierarchy in the guild. I still would prefer that there be none - hence my statements that the Officer rank were not any more special than the Lurker's rank.
I am sorry that you feel angry and betrayed as this was not my intention in the slightest. But I hope you can imagine my feelings of anger and betrayal to be approached by an outsider about the behavior of one of our Lurkers. To twice have blue bind-on-pickup items snaked out from under the group by another Lurker. We're just over a month into retail and have had more incidents than all of Beta. I'd be a fool to not put into place some kind of security net to protect the interests of the Lurker Lounge. As Mongo stated - the Lurker's guild is a walking advertisement for the Lurkers Lounge. I'm trying to fufill that mandate the best I can.
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I see no contradiction in my statements. I would exclude no one who shares the interest and values of the lurker lounge. Here is an example (from memory and not verbatim) of how the guild could drive people to the site: a few nights ago I was in a party with Zippyy. Someone had asked about lurkers. Zippyy responded: "We are from the lurker lounge!"

I fully agree with you that the guild is a walking advertisement for the Lurkers [sic] Lounge. I disagree with you about the direction that the guild is going. As a compromise I will drop my proposed introduction of new people. I know introductions can be hard to write.

I ask that you:

1.) Stop inviting people from outside the lounge. And, no, I am not wishing anyone now in the guild to leave.

2.) Go back to the guild structure of a few days ago.


You hold a non-elected position of some responsibility and power. Use it wisely.