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I have an order of business: ( sweatdrop )

Guild Options


Right now I have the guild as Private, which means anyone can read the posts, but no one but members can post or make new threads. The obvious problem with this is that some people would like to chat with customers and take orders in their shop stall, and you can't do that with Private. Also, it makes bumping your shop stall thread a little bit obviously contrived, because you're going to be literally spamming your thread, and I don't really want people *stuck* in one position -- on the other hand, I don't want people bumping every 5 minutes ( stressed )

However, were it public, there could be new threads started up all over the place, not just the regular n00b posts "Where am I?" "How do u color?" but also non-members trying to set up shops, which isn't really fair to the people who have endured through everything and who've donated gold, time, and or effort to make the group, and then have some people come in and muck up the shop. It'd be relatively simple to delete these threads, but I don't know how much of an epidemic it would be, and any general threads would push down the shop stalls on the page.

Possible solutions for making it a Public guild include Stickying all the shop-stalls, and making all the Rules/critique arena/etc posts Announcement stickys to keep everything on top, and then allow chatter down below.

I want to hear if anyone has any opinions on this matter, but for now we'll be trial-basing having it Public, with a *request* for no new threads. I don't know what they'd need new threads for anyway... (erm, I'd especially like to see suggestions for this one, as I'm trying to limit all possible discussions to different stickies/shop-stalls, so: Why else WOULD a person start a new thread -- besides a stupid n00b question or saying "someone color my picture" blah blah blah) It's easy as pie to change our options, but in the meantime feedback on how this is working would be fantaaabulous.


And as always, I value your opinions. Even if having it Public is working out great as far as I can tell, but most people hate it, we can gladly change it to whatever is best for the members of the guild smile


Oh yeah: What do you think of a banner contest? And the "brightest crayon in the box," not as an award, but as just a "featured artist" of the month type thing, randomly chosen by randomizer.org (as suggested by Khet), and the featured artist will be featured in the Brightest Crayon in the Box thread and have a little interview or what have you...



In closing, three things to think about: Public/Private, Banner contest, Monthly Featured Artist

Aaactually anyone on Crew can do that... ^^

edit: *Deletes everything else she said*

whee, spiffy mod-like buttons. blaugh *plays*

Yess! We got our guild! surprised You should no though that I might not be around the guild as much as the treads and stuff (I hope you leave them up) because I never think to go to guilds. sweatdrop

Anyways:

Public/Private:
Go Public! If things get out of hand you can always hire more A-Teamers.

Banner Contest:
I personally would like a "Colour The Banner" Contest more. neutral

Random Brigtness Thing:
oOo! Spiffy! I Liketh it aloteth! whee

mlem, Thank you. biggrin

I personaly like the idea of going public. Just be really, really strict. Is there anyway that you can make it so people can post in threads, just not create new ones?

Either a create the banner or color the banner is fine with me, owever seeing as this is a coloring guild, coloring a banner seems more appropriate.

Brightest Crayon sounds really cool. Like others have said, it would lend a sense of commuity and team to the guild.

I like the idea of going public as well. I think it would be a very good idea to sticky all of our shops. ^^

And if the spam gets to bad we can be spaminators! Rawr!

I would love to have a banner contest. Color or create, I would love to participate!

And as for a featured colorist, I think it's a great idea. I think it would add to the whole aura of crayons.

And a question:

How do you guys feel about creating links to our individual shops? I was thinking about it last night when I was deciding my layout because usually in auctions and such there is a 'link me!' post, so I was wondering if we should just keep the links general to the guild or have our own shop links.

It was supposed to open a media player on a free web page that a friend of mine sent me. It's just supposed to be a link to a page =/ I'm not hosting it myself, so I didn't think there would be any harm in just linking the page.

It's a random 70's German dico preformance about Moscow. Randomly enough. I've found on seveal free sites. I personally find it very amusing.

But is it comming up in a seperate media player? If it is then I will definatly take it down, for it is not supposed to do that, and I don't want people to get the wrong impression.