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03-23-2009, 11:03 AM
Filed under: (Guild Leadership) Officers' Quarters (http://www.wowinsider.com/category/officers-quarters/)
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.wowinsider.com/media/2009/03/overruled-resize.jpg (http://icanhascheezburger.com/)Every Monday Scott Andrews contributes Officers' Quarters (http://www.wowinsider.com/category/officers-quarters/), a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership.
Who knows what's best for a guild, its leader or its members? It's an interesting question (http://www.wowinsider.com/category/the-queue/). The guild leader certainly has the best perspective on all guild issues (or she should, anyway). But it is her job to keep the members happy. So if the members are against something, should you allow them to overrule you? What if you as an officer think the members are wrong? This week's e-mail comes from a reader who did what his members wanted him to do, but thinks he might have made a mistake.
Hey Scott.
I'm the GM of a reasonably successful guild who have gotten to Sarth 2d and working on 3d in 25 man raids, so there's not a lot left to do.
Back in mid January we were successfully [running three Heroic raids] a week. However some classes were very tight and for the 25 man we had maybe 27 signups and not all of the 'right' class balance, but 'good enough' for Naxx etc. We had the opportunity to take in approximately 10 good raiders [. . .] with whom some of us (including myself) had played in the past and [whose] attitude matched very closely to our own. With those 10 raiders there were approximately 10 other people who did not want to raid with RL commitments but still enjoyed playing WoW etc. The Officers were largely in favor of taking them on, our class leaders had some concerns, but generally thought it was a good idea. So we took the idea to the guild as a whole who were largely against the merger.Continue reading Officers' Quarters: Overruled (http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/03/23/officers-quarters-overruled/)
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http://www.blogcdn.com/www.wowinsider.com/media/2009/03/overruled-resize.jpg (http://icanhascheezburger.com/)Every Monday Scott Andrews contributes Officers' Quarters (http://www.wowinsider.com/category/officers-quarters/), a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership.
Who knows what's best for a guild, its leader or its members? It's an interesting question (http://www.wowinsider.com/category/the-queue/). The guild leader certainly has the best perspective on all guild issues (or she should, anyway). But it is her job to keep the members happy. So if the members are against something, should you allow them to overrule you? What if you as an officer think the members are wrong? This week's e-mail comes from a reader who did what his members wanted him to do, but thinks he might have made a mistake.
Hey Scott.
I'm the GM of a reasonably successful guild who have gotten to Sarth 2d and working on 3d in 25 man raids, so there's not a lot left to do.
Back in mid January we were successfully [running three Heroic raids] a week. However some classes were very tight and for the 25 man we had maybe 27 signups and not all of the 'right' class balance, but 'good enough' for Naxx etc. We had the opportunity to take in approximately 10 good raiders [. . .] with whom some of us (including myself) had played in the past and [whose] attitude matched very closely to our own. With those 10 raiders there were approximately 10 other people who did not want to raid with RL commitments but still enjoyed playing WoW etc. The Officers were largely in favor of taking them on, our class leaders had some concerns, but generally thought it was a good idea. So we took the idea to the guild as a whole who were largely against the merger.Continue reading Officers' Quarters: Overruled (http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/03/23/officers-quarters-overruled/)
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