Dambusters, you might have noticed recently that I have been removing inactive guild members more frequently than ever before.
When we used to rock n roll at the old server Xavius, we used to be more accepting of medium/long term offline alts and people who are good friends who we know will one day return to the guild. Since we changed server to Ragnaros, I have tried to slowly bring in a better awareness of our actual online activity by mentioning my thoughts in previous blog posts. I have always tried to be lenient with the good people of the guild who have real life commitments which keeps them offline for extended periods.
This leniency has not changed because I do realise people must put real life first as it should be. It’s only healthy to ensure things are sorted in your own life before taking control of a relatively meaningless online avatar. Some people have more going on irl than others so it stands to reason that the guild must be understanding of all. I myself am just back from a 4 week holiday where I managed to keep close contact with the officer team but in fact, I had to rely heavily on them to keep things running smoothly which, naturally, they did without flaw. Thanks guys!
What I do want to stress however, is that I have placed a cut-off for ANY and all characters who remain offline for more than 1 month. It’s pretty easy to track in the guild roster pane so it’s easy for me to remove the offliners, be they forgotten alts, friends who joined and didn’t quite get hooked, people on extended holiday or without Internet etc. these guys are all in danger of the big /gkick. If you have an alt who is underused and you want them to remain in the guild, please ensure you log in from time to time, even if its just to reset that status in the roster page. This could save you the ball-ache of trying to call for another invite when there may not be any officers online (I know that’s an extreme thought lol) but be sure if you have had a character removed in this way then chances are, you will be welcomed straight back in as soon as you are ready to be more active on it. There’s that continued leniency right there 😀
What this does for the guild is that it ensures we never have a massive bank of characters who never log in. I think a month is fair and tbh logging for 30 seconds once per month could still be considered as inactive but I have to draw the line somewhere otherwise I’m looking at weekly activity and calculating that for each character over the course of the month and that’s not gonna happen, it has its own flaws that I won’t go into right now.
Rest assured that the way we have it currently looks good to newly invited members who see plenty of activity and nobody offline for like 6 months+ immediately making them question the guild. I know if I ever joined another guild then the first thing I would do would be to go through the roster and see how active it is.
Anyone who knows they will be going offline for an extended period should speak to me and we will discuss the best course of action but remember, it’s not the end of the world to drop out of the roster while you are offline as long as you know you are returning because as long as you don’t join another guild before returning to the Dambusters, your guild reputation and activity are restored when you return.
Happy activities Dambusters!
/Salute
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