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Posted: April 2, 2009 02:11 pm  | |||||
      IRC Nickname: His Lordship Group: Founder Posts: 6029 Member No.: 1 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 129    | MYTH: Once a person intros to WG, they are at this stage prepared to join. TRUTH: At the intro phase, the person is testing WG, looking for faults and shortcomings. MYTH: We shouldn't worry about non-applying intros. They were probably inactive. TRUTH: Most intros are not inactive. They simply change their mind, but yes, a few are inactive. MYTH: It's not a big deal if some intros don't apply... if we send out recruitment material we will compensate. TRUTH: It matters EVEN MORE that we keep our intros if we are recruiting heavily. All our recruitment work goes to waste if our prospects disappear. I want to start by congratulating WG on improving our intro rate. We're getting a really positive flow of intros and therefore, apps are picking up. You will obviously have noticed that most of these applicants don't follow through with their applications. Some are inactive, but more than half simply change their mind. We haven't sold our product to them yet. They need to in fact graduate before we get to the stage where they are fully fledged members. All of that hard recruitment work goes to waste if the intros don't follow through so this month of April will see us improving the intro to app ratio. The important changes, starting immediately (if WG consents): 1. More #wg_lobby. We are going to make wg_lobby the main conversation room and we'll switch to #wg for the private matters, such as inner clan discussion. Debates on changes and so forth, as well as events. But for the large part - wg_lobby for the Runescape related stuff, and the non-RS stuff... links to topics guests can't see - #wg. Sex talk, hmm lets not go there right now. 2. Auto-adding system. Let's develop a culture whereby we go to the intro forum and simply add the intros as they post... this gives them more reason to join. You get friendly with them and you are investing yourself in them. Really helps. 3. Expansion of the public forums - We're going to make our public forums busier with more to write about. We're going to include a clan discussion forum and such, but we're also going to delete some of our private forums as a result - too many forums are annoying to browse. I am thinking of deleting the mentor forum (and making it a sticky), making the gaming forum and tech support forum sub-forums of real life, and deleting the study room... all to make way for about three or four public forums. Any objections? I am open-minded. Give me the criticism but be courteous or I will end you violently. 4. The enforcement of public events - they come every now and again, but public events are very very useful. They improve attendance AS WELL AS lock in future members AND prove we are active. Basically, any event that doesn't NEED to be private should be public... Level up parties should be public, ToG and Distractions and Diversions should be public... and a few others. Of course, we should also have private events because we can't give them all the fun if they are not committed members. --------------------  | ||||
Posted: April 2, 2009 02:36 pm | |||||
 IRC Nickname: Wayne|Eregion2 Group: Emeritus Posts: 3087 Member No.: 156 Joined: January 25, 2008 Total Events Attended: 8 | The only thing is could we make the Study Room a subforum somewhere? It doesn't get used often but I like to know it's there.  Either way though, this is great. --------------------  | ||||
Posted: April 2, 2009 02:41 pm | |||||
| IRC Nickname: His Lordship Group: Founder Posts: 6029 Member No.: 1 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 129 |
Yeah great idea. I'll make it part of real life I think. -------------------- | ||||
Posted: April 2, 2009 02:52 pm | |||||
 IRC Nickname: Ansatsublade Group: Emeritus Posts: 765 Member No.: 101 Joined: January 3, 2008 Total Events Attended: 120 | lol lordy, that makes more work for me. lol Uh, yeh as for #Wg_Lobby, I've been saying that we should use this as main channel for over a year now. But good points. <3 --------------------  | ||||
Posted: April 2, 2009 03:03 pm | |||||
 IRC Nickname: Aardvark Group: Banned Posts: 759 Member No.: 322 Joined: March 13, 2008 Total Events Attended: 175 | Sounds good, and yeh more public events.. i get asked alot by people in lobby when we will be having another, and well I cant answer that to them and its discouraging to them. --------------------    | ||||
Posted: April 2, 2009 03:06 pm | |||||
| IRC Nickname: His Lordship Group: Founder Posts: 6029 Member No.: 1 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 129 |
I don't know about you, but I think our members are truly well behaved. -------------------- | ||||
Posted: April 2, 2009 04:08 pm | |||||
| IRC Nickname: Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 7306 Member No.: 47 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 343 | Lobby for chat gotcha.  -------------------- July 5, 2007 - June 27, 2011 | ||||
Posted: April 2, 2009 08:41 pm | |||||
 IRC Nickname: megajayson Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 9246 Member No.: 423 Joined: April 4, 2008 Total Events Attended: 216 | yea, i think possible we should get rid of the greeting robbiebot does in lobby then when someone does invite or enters, it causes unwanted spam, especially if people want to chat in there.
that but otherwise no objections, im up for helping by chatting in lobby --------------------  This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill Fifteen percent concentrated power of will Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain And a hundred percent reason to remember the name! 7th Highest Overall for Wars Attended. | ||||
Posted: April 2, 2009 08:43 pm | |||||
 IRC Nickname: Zemus Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 2786 Member No.: 128 Joined: January 12, 2008 Total Events Attended: 275 | yussir --------------------  24th to 2496 Overall ~ 29th to 120 Dungeoneering ~ Guardian since November 2007 ~ - I now play WoW lols - Server: US Jubei'Thos Faction: Horde 85 Blood-Elf Paladin 85 Troll Hunter | ||||
Posted: April 2, 2009 08:54 pm | |||||
 IRC Nickname: Lefty Group: Emeritus Posts: 3340 Member No.: 1055 Joined: June 30, 2008 Total Events Attended: 211 | The only problem I have with the lobby is a lot of the spam, as Jadi said. When someone joins, you have RobbieBot saying that they joined, RuneScript saying all of the clans that the person is in, and then maybe other spam that just gets in the way of conversation and breaks it up in some ways. I will try to increase my conversations in the lobby however. --------------------      | ||||
Posted: April 2, 2009 10:04 pm | |||||
| IRC Nickname: spanthrax Group: Ex-Member Posts: 813 Member No.: 29 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 37 |
good points gene, and also i completely agree jayson the welcome <insert spam here> is fancy yes but completely un-needed flair. --------------------   | ||||
Posted: April 2, 2009 10:09 pm | |||||
 IRC Nickname: bto Group: Emeritus Posts: 3815 Member No.: 196 Joined: February 3, 2008 Total Events Attended: 332 | You guys have to realize, when a person is introing and they join #wg_lobby, its their only way to really gain new friends and get to know about WG. If I was introing, and I went into the lobby and it was dead silent, I wouldnt really want to start a conversation in a new place. Lets do this -------------------- bto  Ex-WG Warlord  "It is our direction, not our intentions, that lead us to our destinations." | ||||
Posted: April 2, 2009 10:10 pm | |||||
| IRC Nickname: Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 7306 Member No.: 47 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 343 |
We didn't actually want you in WG...  -------------------- July 5, 2007 - June 27, 2011 | ||||
Posted: April 3, 2009 01:12 am | |||||
| IRC Nickname: Slayer123121 Group: Ex-Member Posts: 319 Member No.: 1753 Joined: March 6, 2009 Total Events Attended: 12 | Brilliant Idea's Gene, if you need someone to set up weekly PUBLIC events Let me know im up for anything and always can find time for Gmt/Est OR AUS timezones to compensate for others. 1 BIG IDEA I HAVE! GENE READ THIS@@@@@@@@@@@@ Well in Rsd we had 2 people who were App Managers these people are there to GET INTROS TO JOIN, they auto ADD EVERY INtro and it's there job to get to know them, they also help them out with the app process answer questions etc. They then have a few powers like being able to accept app's etc. It works really well as when Rsd used it, it upped there intro-join % by almost 3x the pervious rate. Which is what we need. --------------------  | ||||
Posted: April 3, 2009 02:04 am | |||||
 IRC Nickname: rachellove Group: Council Posts: 6955 Member No.: 173 Joined: January 31, 2008 Total Events Attended: 305 | Yeah for being told to add people. I used to always do this til I got told to stop it. I think intros stay around more if you get them somehow involved. --------------------  Thank you Garrett and Dallar. “The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.” ~~Colin Powell ~~  | ||||
Posted: April 3, 2009 05:44 am | |||||
 IRC Nickname: Big_Al_002 Group: Guardian Posts: 1102 Member No.: 1777 Joined: March 21, 2009 Total Events Attended: 25 |
more events for pacific timers! gmt -8 plox!!!!! -------------------- Guardian from 4/20/09 to 8/4/09, then quit. Back, Trial Guardian 6/12/11.  Proud To Have A Winddancir Original | ||||
Posted: April 3, 2009 04:54 pm | |||||
 IRC Nickname: Zeth Group: Emeritus Posts: 1839 Member No.: 17 Joined: December 29, 2007 Total Events Attended: 63 | I've been adding almost all of our members from the time I joined to now, and I will continue doing that. It really helps the newer members with all kinds of things if you just add them. --------------------  Joined WG - 24th of June 2007 - Never left. | ||||
Posted: April 3, 2009 07:36 pm | |||||
 IRC Nickname: DyIan Group: Emeritus Posts: 1205 Member No.: 1638 Joined: January 15, 2009 Total Events Attended: 107 | I think these are some good changes. --------------------   | ||||
Posted: April 4, 2009 09:19 am | |||||
 IRC Nickname: Gorgemaster Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 9840 Member No.: 3 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 540 | I agree with all of it --------------------    | ||||
Posted: April 13, 2009 11:27 pm | |||||
| IRC Nickname: Mmangler Group: Emeritus Posts: 1595 Member No.: 1580 Joined: December 24, 2008 Total Events Attended: 165 | Public events would be a great idea. My first real contact with WG was during one of your public events and I really enjoyed it. -------------------- | ||||
Posted: April 15, 2009 03:33 pm | |||||
| IRC Nickname: Olivier1o1 Group: Guest Posts: 208 Member No.: 1744 Joined: February 27, 2009 Total Events Attended: 17 | As you said, intros are "testing the waters." If they don't apply, they could simply be waiting, like I was. I think I intro'd six weeks before I applied. (Although that's a slightly different story) =) -------------------- | ||||
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