Changes to the Stormrage Guild system

[MongoJerry]

You also run into one other problem, defining a "known" KoS guild.  Will someone create a blacklist somewhere saying such and such guilds are officially KoS and hunting season is open?  Will they wear a KoS on their guild tag to indicate their status?  What happens when one sees an incident of extreme imbalance?  Do they then start hunting that guild until they are informed they are not KoS and that it was just one bad apple (or even a misinterpretation of what was seen to trigger the hunt)?  By opening the door to the possibility, you do set the need for some definition.  The simplest way to do that would be to have said blacklist and state a no holds barred policy for those guilds.

My intention is to create guidelines and ask Lurkers to use their best judgement when implementing them. Otherwise, I end up having to create a long list of legalistic rules and procedures that invariably don't cover every situation and anyway will end up being too restrictive or too loose and everything just gets into a big mess. As far as creating a Lurker Lounge blacklist goes, that creates two problems: 1. That's what guilds do, and the Lurker Lounge is not a guild. 2. Lurkers play on many different servers and I don't want to keep an updated list of blacklisted KoS guilds for all servers.

In my guidelines, however, I do specifically say "well known KoS guilds," so that should cover your issue of if a person sees one incident of extreme imbalance. The phrase "well known" could mean that you've seen mulitple incidents involving different people in that guild, that you have talked to others who have seen similar incidents from the same guild, and that maybe you have seen some posts by the guildmaster of those guilds bragging about such incidents. I leave it up to the individual Lurker's judgement to find out what guilds on their servers are KoS guilds, but it usually doesn't take long for a KoS guild to show its face for what it is (usually they brag about being a KoS guild).