The Guild Note

[Zooggy]

Heya, folks,

I've disabled the ability for people to edit their own guild notes. Here's why:

The guild now has 372 characters belonging to 122 accounts. Keeping track of who's who is getting a bit difficult.

So, I've implemented a policy whereby everyone's public note begins with their main character's name. This makes it possible to go to the guild roster, view Guild Status, sort by Note and have everyone's characters grouped up.

From there, we can see who's been online, who's been away, who is who's alt and a number of other stuffs.

For this to work, even main characters must have their notes begin with their own name.

It's also necessary that people inviting alts into the guild remember to set this tidbit of information, but since only Veterans and above can invite, that should be easier to keep hold of.

Comments?

Cheers,
J.

 

[Skcornnelg]

I agree with this. Midge keeps changing my guild note and I am sick of it!

 

[Windzarko]

So, I've implemented a policy whereby everyone's public note begins with their main character's name. This makes it possible to go to the guild roster, view Guild Status, sort by Note and have everyone's characters grouped up.

Why, in four years, did this never occur to me? Would've save so many headaches compared even to the (very few) points where we had most people correctly noting the name of their main in their alt's officer notes...

 

[Zooggy]

Hey,

Why, in four years, did this never occur to me? Would've save so many headaches

To be fair, you already had some of this. True, it wasn't very consistent, and some people would put "Zooggy's alt" where others would put "Alt of Zooggy", and that's less than useful for sorting... Plus, it only covered alts, not mains...

Cheers,
J.

 

[Huung]

I had suggested this ages back, but got moaned at by certain officers for trying to make things "too serious and raid-like".

 

[Zooggy]

Hey,

"too serious and raid-like".

That's... odd... That sounds like something I'd say, but this measure has absolutely nothing to do with raiding. It is, believe it or not, something to help us manage the community and know who's who...

For instance, you'd be surprised at the number of characters that get played on the day they join the guild, then never again for two months.

So, chances are I did say that but either a) I didn't understand the point, in which case further explanation was needed, from you ; or b) it was proposed under a different context and motivation, in which case my objections were probably misunderstood, which means further explanation was needed from me ...

Or, this isn't about me at all, which is entirely possible... I do get a tendency to get a tad full of myself every once in a while... But the truth is, I don't remember any other officer fighting against the raidicizing of the guild nearly as much as I do and did...

Meh. It's all good, we all live and learn...

Cheers,
J.

 

[Huung]

I believe it may have been you, Zoog

It was in line with the way the addon for one of the raiding mods would have worked - it needed to use the guild note to store info. I'd therefore put it under

b) it was proposed under a different context and motivation

Still, needed doing for a while - that guild does collect a large amount of dust, and I know Lithy was never a fan of doing the spring cleaning kickspam