The guild Emissary is our
recruiting officer. As such, he/she is responsible for administering this. OoE's
Lord and Chancellor have final say in all recruiting matters. Anyone reading
this should know that OOE reserves the right to stop or resume recruiting at any
time based on the needs of the guild.
1. How
to Join: To Join Order of
Eternity, you must have a Sponsor. Any fully guilded, non-probationary OoE
member may sponsor a new recruit.
- In sponsoring someone, guild members
attest to the recruit's potential worth and compatibility with the guild.
Members wanting to sponsor someone should contact an officer for the new
Page's invite.
- If a potential member is accepted as
a Page, the Sponsor carries the responsibility of helping with their
integration into the social and activities structure of the guild.
2. Probationary
Members: Probationary members
carry the OoE tag and can participate in guild chat.
- Pages are expected to read the guild
guidelines prior to expiration of their probationary period.
- An Emissary will start a thread in
the General Membership forum announcing the page. All guild members are
encouraged to reply with feedback on the page's progress towards membership.
- While in this status, they carry the
rank of "Page" and are expected to spend their time getting to
know their guildmates and officers by participating (both socially and
grouping/raiding with as appropriate).
- Pages must maintain regular contact
with their sponsor
- Emissaries will also provide regular,
unsolicited feedback to the Guild Lord and/or Chancellor on all probationary
members.
3. Responsibilities
of Sponsors: While fulfilling
the role of Sponsor, guild members must do the following:
- As soon as your page is invited, post
an introduction of your page on the "Looking to Join" forum (your
page may then follow up with further information about themselves if they
wish). This is to help assure you have gotten to know your sponsee well.
- Sponsors are responsible for
coordinating between the Emissary/Officer and the recruit for their
interview and the initial invite.
- You must post weekly detailed updates
regarding your page in the members forum, on the thread set up to record
feedback on your page. Failure to do this may result in termination of your
page's recruit period and restriction of your ability to sponsor pages in
the future
4. Promotion
to Full Member: After 1 month
as a probationary member, the upgrade process begins. Pages may request their
endorsement process begin as early as 1 week. If circumstances warrant, a page
may stay in this status for up to 6 weeks (at which time guild leadership must
make a determination):
- An Emissary will post a call for
endorsement in the general membership forum. Any officer may endorse the
Page and only one endorsement is needed. Please take note: The sponsor must
concur with the upgrade.
- New recruits will be automatically
promoted as long as at least one officer endorses the promotion and no other
officers of the guild oppose it. In those cases where the sponsor is either
an officer or emissary acting as sponsor, another officer's endorsement is
necessary as they cannot fill both roles.
- When any officer's have opposing
views on the Page's promotion, they're encouraged to post in the Officers
Forum. The issue will be resolved in accordance with paragraph G2.
- Once an endorsement is received and
any issues are resolved, an Emissary will move the Member-Input thread off
the active message board and contact the guild Elder, Chancellor or Lord to
make the page's promotion.
- If this hasn't already been done as a
page, it is at this time that the newly-promoted member is expect to have
any other characters on this server guilded with OOE
5. Family
Clause: Fully-guilded members
may be eligible to have family members come in to OOE without first becoming
pages or being endorsed. The intent of this clause is to encourage fellowship by
fostering a family atmosphere. Members should fully understand and accept that
approval is not automatic; be prepared to have family member(s) go through the
entire process. Approval/Disapproval may also be based on the current state of
the guild (membership size, needs, morale, etc.).
- "Family Members" (in this
context) includes, but is not limited to immediate family, spouses and
significant others.
- The prospective (new) member must
post an introduction to the guild (or fill out the application) in the
"Looking to Join" forum.
- To be eligible for this accelerated
process, members must contact the guild Elder, Chancellor, Emissary or Lord
for an interview (which will be with the requesting member, not the
perspective addition)
- If the senior officer/emissary
performing the interview believes it is warranted, they invite and promote.
- Throughout this process, a message
thread will be established in the officer's forum to facilitate
communication and provide visibility to the leadership.