Guild recruitment

[Haven]

This is something I've been pondering and something that has been discussed a bit on teamspeak and a bit on here.

Two strategies have been proposed:

Fast growth, low quality:
We can recruit heavily, spam invites and quailty check later once the numbers get high enough for us to take a breath.

Slow growth, high quality:
We go out and play with people and if they like us and we like them then they get an invite.

I realise that quality and growth speed are not mutually exclusive but bear with me for simplicity.

Whilst most of the officers in THN favour the former, I've been sticking to my guns on the latter strategy ... until now that is. After thinking it over for a while (the benefit of long work commute journeys) I've realised that the route I am taking is no longer viable and its the wrong thing to do.

What changed my mind ?
The realisation from a conversation last night that many of our senior guild members would much rather be playing with other guilds (myself included) and that as a guild we pretty much have nothing to lose anymore. We've lost a few senior membes to other guilds as they want to do more raiding recently - I am also thinking along those lines and have been having an internal moral debate as to whether this is the right thing to do or not. Having spoken to people last night I realised that I was not the only one thinking of moving on.

Given that things are not working out the way they are we should try one last thing, and that is a big assed in your face, no nonsense recruitment drive. Spamming the LFG, asking people we see out and about (nagging if you like) - promoting ourselves as a raiding guild! All of us doing this and seeing what happens is the only thing I can think of left to try.

So, in a complete about turn from what I said yesterday lets go for it if you're all willing ... and if you're not then fair enough its been a good ride

I should be online tonight should you want to chat about this - I'll get myself a macro setup and will start spamming tonight also.

 

[Windzarko]

I was with you before on the recruiting only good people, but hell with it, I'm going to get my own back on all those annoying guild-recruitment-spammers by outspamming them (joking, I'll hold myself back but still mass-recruit as much as I can)

I found a mod on Curse Gaming not long ago that enhances the /who function to allow searches for unguilded people, that could be quite handy in recruiting... I'll try to find the link again later.

 

[thatbloke]

I believe there is a mod out there that you can also set to periodically use a macro, so you could set up the recruitment macro, then let the mod do its thing.

Can't remember its name though...

 

[Windzarko]

Well, I made a couple of macros for guild recruitment, put them to the test in the LFG channel (nobody uses Guild Recruitment channels...), and there are now 9 new members of The Haven, most of whom seem like good people, and one or two of whom have level 60 alts who might help us. Not too bad of a start, huh?

 

[Twisto]

Hang on a mo..

You spammed the LFG channel and got 9 new members in a short period of time.

Very very nice work.

Well there is your proof. But can anybody else match it?
I will be trying thats for sure.

Btw, was the recruitment spam in a RP style?

 

[Windzarko]

My recruitment spam wasn't in RP style; I'll send you the message I used when I'm next in game.

Of all the people that saw the message and talked to me at all about it, only one didn't join, and they were looking for an RP-heavy guild (so I directed him to the Ashen Order's website).

Working quite well, and luckily no people who weren't instantly apparent to be bad joined (possibly because of my mentions of "community" and "fun" in the recruitment). Hopefully we can get some level 60s on board with it as well!