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March 07, 2005
Our Rules
Considering joining the guild? You should be familiar with our rules and our ethics then. The main ethics guiding us can be expressed in just three sentences from our philosophy:
- Help yourself.
- Help your guild members.
- Help others
Belonging to guild means helping guild members and making a fun environment for all. Rules exist to help with that. Respect them. Violations of rules with result in a warning. Repeated warnings will result in demotions within the guild or expulsion from the guild. Here are our specific rules:
- Share fair. Pass on items you don't really need in Group Loot. Offer items to other members of the group if you don't need them. This means the mage, not the warrior, gets the arcane wand even if it is the only item dropped by the boss monster. If no one can really use the item, feel free to roll for it.
- Don't doublebook. If you invite a member to the group, ensure the space remains free while the member is in transit to the meeting space.
- Meet your appointments. If you are invited to a group and accept, give an estimate of how far you are away and stick to that estimate. If you sign up for an event, make sure you show up on time or send a note/message somehow to the organizer, preferably before the event.
- There's a limit on the number of characters you can have in the guild. This is currently a main character and three alternates. As of The Burning Crusade, you're also allowed to add on new TBC race character.
- No selling of guild bank items for profit. Selling or giving away guild bank items for profit is an immediate kicking offense.
- No cheating. No bots. UI modifications and macros are fine.
- Mix it up but remember your guild. Groups of guild and non-guild members are fine. If a member and a non-member both ask for a spot, give preference to the member even if the non-member is somewhat better qualified.
- There's a limit on the number of characters you can have in the guild. This is currently a main character and four alternates.
- Keep channel chat clean. The guild channel and allied guild channels are PG-13, which means profanity is the exception not the rule. It also means no racist, sexist, or other derogatory comments which might be offensive to groups of people. This applies to any Ventrillo or TeamSpeak channels run by The One or allied guilds as well.
- Refrain from Dudespeak. For example: "OMG 2 Kool M8!"
- Respect the group leader. Ask him or her if there is a designated puller or if you are just playing free for all. Stay close to the rest of the group unless otherwise decided. If you have a problem with the tactics used in a raid (as opposed to a party) or with a looting decision, please bring it up in private with the raid leader or your THB representative after the raid.
- Practice random acts of kindness. Offer at least some stuff to guild members.
- Practice Pay It Forward. Offer at least some stuff to perfect strangers. Make them promise to do a similar act within a week and get a similar promise from the person they offer to.
- Update your profile periodically and visit the web site for the latest news regularly.
- Know your guildmates. Make an effort to get to know your guildmates. We're a relatively small guild, so make an effort to meet people and interact with them, to create a welcome and warm environment for all.
- Have fun!
In addition, the following rule applies to prospective members during their initiate period:
- Restricted event access. The One is a proud member of The Honourbound Alliance, an alliance of casual raiding guilds. Initiates, because they're unknown to the guild, are not permitted to register for end-game events of more than 10 people (i.e. Molten Core, Zul'Gurub, etc) until either their initiate period is complete or they have permission from Elsheindra, the guild mistress. What our members (or initiates!) do in allied events reflects on the guild as a whole. We want to be respected, not be known for causing trouble.
Note: This page is intended for non-members interested in the guild. See the guild version in the Wiki.
Revised: June 17, 2010
Posted by Elsheindra at March 7, 2005 01:33 PM
