roidragee - arms warrior

[Firecrest]

Normally I'd be more asinine about such things. But I've come to a couple conclusions about our app process. First is that no one takes care of them. We almost never give an app a definitive answer as to whether or not they are welcome to trial. Mostly we just make fun of them and that’s as far as it goes. This is stupid. Even terrible apps have the right to a yes or no. Since no one else steps up to this task, I’ll start doing it. However, I don’t know everything about every single class. To that end, I wait a little while for a semi-decent comment like Talith’s or just make a judgment call on my own with the information I have. If anyone feels the need to bitch because I let in someone they don’t think I should have, they can feel free to put in the little bit of effort it takes to constructively critique an app rather than bitching after the fact.

My second realization is that we are too hard on our apps. The trial period is the time where we can give a potential new member hell and see how they take it. The app process should just be a reality check to make sure that they meet the basic requirements of raiding. Are you literate, can you show up 90% of the time, is your armory halfway decent, and do you understand that we are an offensive bunch of asshats? The trial period is when we see if you can actually play your class and put up with our asshattery.

My plan is to err on the side of bringing a bad into the raid that is swiftly demoted as opposed to the current process of pretty much doing nothing ever and never getting any new recruits.

Thanks for your concern though, Crazy.