The days of open invites are numbered in the Dambusters. Until now, the guild has been free and open with its recruitment policy, happily inviting everyone and anyone into the guild regardless of who they are or what they may bring to the guild.
This policy is coming to an end soon but please, don’t worry! The access to the guild will still be easy for anyone who wishes to become a member, so long as they show us they can access our website –new site creation currently in process– and care enough to read what we are all about a swell as answering a few fun questions about themselves.
The good people who really want to join us will have no trouble in doing so. What this means is that as people leave the guild (which always happens due to many factors over any given period of time) the guild will refill its ranks with people who, we can be confident, will share our values as a guild.
People already in the guild should see no change, ofcourse you are the reason for the guild’s success. If you have an alt character you wish to bring in, the process will remain the same as now. Just contact a recruitment officer or myself for an invite on your alt.
The benefits of such a system may seem obscure at first, it has taken me time to consider all the pros and cons of such a move but as you will no doubt be aware, I do my homework on matters of guild management as emphasised here and you can be sure I have carried out the forethought required of such a move.
Having an application system allows us to vet our incoming members to ensure they will be more likely to be trustworthy. In the past we have been stung by douchebags who have abused the trust we offered to them by way of guild bank accessibility and leadership roles causing us massive drama and forcing me to rethink my strategy of trust. Having a vetting system will allow us more flexibility with the rank perks and bank tab access aswell as having a more fluid rank progression than we currently have.
Another bonus of the new setup will be that it ensures any prospective new member MUST access the new website, forcibly directing traffic to the online spaces we use to keep our members most reliably informed about the general goings-on around the guild. We need to get the information contained in this blog and the Facebook page out to our members in a more efficient way and the website will be designed to allow that.
You may be thinking ‘hang on a minute, how do we keep recruiting from around a low-med pop server like Xavius?’
The answer to that is, we use the server forums and use our growing community reputation to cast a wider catchment net to not only Xavius, but all of the EU. I read so many posts on the WoW community sites about people who can’t ever find a decent guild that fits their needs and that Dambusters, is where we come in. People will be able to find us on the forums and can access our simple website application process and join us on brand new toons to try us out if they wish. Remember new toons are great for levelling guilds!
The whole idea is to get the majority of the guild talking on our forums which ofcourse will be updated with the upcoming website.
Any thoughts are very welcome!
/Salute THE GUILD
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