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that's where the limits come in, you'd have to have some way of balancing out each section of the org. so none of them appear more important/powerful then the other. Maybe have some form of entrance criteria for realy popular departments?

All new recruits that joined through such advertising would, initially, belong to everyone. That is, all of our members who are expected to look after recruits have to help these people as well. They can then join a single person's group of recruits on request. This can easily be organised by having a thread where all people who have shown interest in being a member, and have been active in the guild, are put on a list. These will be the recruits that belong to everyone. There is then a post for each person who can be/is responsible for recruits. This contains a list their recruits. We have one person who has to update the main list, and the individual "recruiters" update their post/list.

I considered something like this, but I dismissed it because it adds an unnecessary level of complication. All of the mods should be reading most of the threads in this guild anyway, and it's not exactly difficult to make a post in a thread saying "this topic belongs here", copying and pasting a few quotes to the correct topic, then deleting a few bits from a thread. Mods can even tell each other about stuff they may have missed. If you have the person who made the first topic being responsible for PMing mods we end up having people of questionable responsibility trying to organise it. In the system where a topic belongs to a mod, it will be that mod that has the first post for thread anyway. This way it is more obvious which topics is being looked after by who.

Also, if there is some ambiguous topic that seems to fall between two others, the mods can decided between themselves who takes it in their topic, or a new topic can be made. If we don't have a mod for something, the topic is given to a mod. We would have to keep track of how many threads a mod has, and mow much time we can dedicate to running threads. That shouldn't be too difficult if we discuss it though....possibley on that IRC channel (that I'll make, and make a "how to" topic for if people want it).

That just meant as a joke. I'm sorry if it seemed like a threat of banning for posting those colours. I just find it painful to read.

I kind of like that way of organization. One thing I really want/need to know about is our morals. None of us ever expect to become corrupt, but power does some crazy things. How would we keep that in check? We don't want to end up like the politicians today.

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Yeah, not to mention a whole complaint office will increase the number of jobs. We seriously need a government for the government though. Make sure no one's complaints are put ahead of others because they're by a celebrity and such.

Good Idea. Anonymity is always good. Anonymity . . . is that even a word? Then again, I had to correct my English teacher. BUT HE SAID PRESERVEDNESS! It was perseverance! What do they teach in those expensive schools? I swear, we need to have teachers who actually KNOW what they are talking about.

im only new here and as such i dont expect my opinion to be glorified as it would in my own halls. but i recommend that somewhat of a joint leader ship program is evloved. i believe that commutative leadership with a head member always prevails. my own guild (signature) is an excellent example of this. we have brought several guilds under our own. this is only a recomendation of course. but please consider what i am suggesting

if you need help my empire stretches over 4 guilds soon to be 5. dont worry im not attacking this one. i rather like it. biggrin