Okay, there are two issues that I'd like to address in this thread.
First of all, bannings. It has come to my attention by looking through some threads around here, that it is far too easy for people to fake their way in to the guild in the "request to join." Then, when they actually get in the guild, their illiteracy shows. Sorry, but that's just not going to happen. (This is not in reference to people who have English as a second language, this is people who are too lazy to maintain something that's any semblance of English, like n00b-speak).
So I'm asking everyone in the guild, if they see a member who is exceptionally n00bish and annoying, please PM me with their username, and several links to threads that proves this person is taking away from the experience of the guild more than they are contributing due to difficult to understand posts. You WILL remain anonymous. I will never give out names of those who report this to me.
Some of you may be asking, "What is n00bish anyway? What are things to watch out for/make sure I'm not doing?" Simple.
A-ny posts that are incomprehensible due to n00b speak (where everything's abbreviated or acronyms.. like "plz" "thx" "OMG U R" ..stuff like that. I really don't give a crap if someone occasionally goes LOL or something, but if their entire vocabulary consists of "LOL U R FUNNIE" .. then BZZT! You lose.)
-Anyone who stretches the damn page unnecessarily (I just deleted posts from a member in question who spelled the word "rocks" as "rox" but with 80 billion x's, causing the page to be stretched beyond belief)
-Anyone who spams or even harasses other guild members.
-Huge stupid run-on sentences, but these usually are accompanied by heavy n00b-speak, so chances are they'd be identified as that before a run-on. I just put this here just in case.
-All caps lock. x.x
NOTE: I do not care if you make a few spelling mistakes. There are some people who apply and have a perfect grasp of grammar aside from a misplaced comma and a few words that aren't spelled right, but that's really not a problem at all. I'm not ridiculously picky. I just want to save this place from becoming more of an incomprehensible mess that some threads here are.
Which brings me to my second point. We need more mods. Anyone interested, please post here with WHY you want to be a mod and what you hope you can do for the guild, and I'll put you under consideration.
That's it for now.
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