Welcome to Gaia! ::

1. The guild opening message. - COMPLETE!

You know the homepage? Well, I'd really like to change that up.
It just doesn't seem to to this great guild justice, in my mind.
I'd like it to have a detailed little story thing maybe, some rules, and as has been already suggested, a small questionaire that will hopefully weed out the undedicated. I would like to ask for a roleplay sample. Semi-literate to literate is how I view this guild, as it makes roleplaying easier.

If people like this idea, I can work on it and it will be posted here to be critiqued.

EDIT: Okay, I've made up something I like. Comments!

EDIT2:: I've put it up as the front page. Just in case you didn't notice. XD



Element’s Realm. We exist in a different dimension, and whether you stumbled across us or were searching for adventure, you have come to a place you will not easily forget. It is a land of magic and mystery, of power and chaos, of friendship and peace. Learn to harness your unique power, control it, and shape it to your will. You will encounter battles, excitement, destruction, and serenity. Only one question remains: Will you cave in under the pressure of maintaining your strength against all odds, or will you rise to the challenge and emerge triumphant?

This is a guild to rise as masters of the elements. Battle with your powers, for good or evil. Join in the many roleplays we have going on, or just hang out with the other members and enjoy the company.

Rules

.Follow the Gaia ToS. This is a no brainer.
.No flaming or racial comments
.No Godmodding. This is very important. Basically, it means that you have to give someone the time and ability to respond to your attack.
.No killing
.Read the first post of every topic you enter. Sometimes they are meant for specific purposes. (i.e., Banners)
.You can only be in one element at a time.
.Stay active. If you’re going to be going somewhere, please tell someone, so we don’t wonder why you magically disappeared.
.Have fun!

You will start out as an apprentice. Unless we see absolutely amazing potential in you, which is rare, there is no exception to this rule. To apply to be in the guild, please send in your application form with the following:

1. How often you will post, usually.
2. What element you are thinking of joining. If you don’t know yet, that’s okay!
3. A sample RP post. Don’t panic! All we’re looking for is a paragraph (3+ sentences) showing that you have decent spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Please, DO NOT USE *action*. We know that not everyone is super awesome at roleplaying, and we can help you learn. n_n

If you have any questions, feel free to ask any of the mods at the bottom of this page.

3. Inactive elements.

I see this is a topic already, but I'll just put it here too. XD
Swamp and Light are rather inactive.
No active masters, and no apprentices, as far as I know of. Which is why the idea stated above would be helpful!
We could discontinue these elements, but:
1. I don't want to do it without Blizz's permission, as infrequent as he is online
2. We might find someone who wants to be in these elements.
I know that all the time people are saying how we have too many elements, but look at them! All of them except two are active! That's amazing!
So. I think we could advertise these positions in the registered guild forum. We might get some good candidates.
If any current master in the guild is wanting to take over one of these elements, that's fine, as long as you don't make your own element masterless.

EDIT:: The only element we might get rid of is Swamp. I'm not getting rid of light. Evarrrr!

5. Member cleanout COMPLETE! Thanks to Vi for helping!

Our message says we do it every couple of weeks. XD
It's more like twice a year.
But anyways, I'd like to get it done before we all go back to school, although I know some people are already in school...

Edit: There are 11 pages of members. XP

Swamp we could discontinue if we want. We are narrowing things down farther and farther to the four and light/dark/phantom as extras.
But people are getting confused about the mixes. perhaps discontinue it, and if somebody asks for a mix we can bring it back.
For that reason, I think we shouldn't delete the topics about it necessarily, but put them into the recycle forum. We have the item description thread for instance. We could pull out Swamp's description and place that in the thread for the element in it's subforum, and if the time comes that we need it all the info is there.

I don't agree with getting rid of the light element, especially since it balances out the dark spectrum and helps to create the Phantom element, originally labeled as the mix of light and dark.

Clearing out the member list also sounds good to me. ^^ And clearing up the subforum too. I wouldn't mind adding to the home page either. Maybe don't take out what Blizz wrote, but add to it.

Andandandand what else was there...*looks*
Oh, an acceptance list.
Don't the elements already have that? The list of their apprentices, and something saying PM the master if you want to join on their main thread? Not like we all don't tell them anyway when they pop up. I don't think a thread is really necessary. If you're dedicated, which is what we want, I think you can read through the element's subforum that you're thinking about joining. You'll stumble into that info right when you click on the main thread for the element.

Hokay, Gler's two cents worth....


One, Gler likes that new layout you have for the front page! ^-^ Banner needs a bit of work, but it'll do. This will go greatly if these people will read the front page. gonk



Two, I agree with Puzzles. If they want to know the status of an element, it won't take but 5 seconds more to get to the respective element's thread, and read up about it. That is, if the Master updates the front page of the thread. Which, Gler tries to do every so often. 3nodding


Three, you must be mad if you think we're getting rid of Light. Light is key, and it cannot be removed. As for Swamp... not many people even know how to use that element. I'd vote for removing it.

4. No. No cleanup. We can just ignore the dead RPs. There are too many to move! gonk All we can do is just declare the thread to be dead in the title.

5. Yeah... Gler's already in school. gonk He has no time to clean up the members. >.> Someone else would have to do it.

<.< So there we go.

Hokay...

I love the new front Sumi's designed =3
But you may want to be prepared to get vague answers on the first question of the form, because if anyone's like me, it depends what's going on on a day-to-day basis to know how often they're going to be able to get on. But that's just me ^.^;;
I was going to suggest a code for the form, but then I realized it's only three small questions; they should be able to remember that. XP

As for the Swamp element [as I agree that the Light element is a staple], I kind of agree. I mean, it seems a really obscure concept to me, and if nobody is there, then it appears there's very little interest in it. We may want to ask some Swamp members for their input, though, if they're around.

And I can help until about the third with any RP Forum Cleanup, Member Cleanup, or whatever. Just tell me what you want me to do, and I can do it =3

@ Gler's # 2: I try to keep mine up-to-date, too =3
@ # 4: But that'd just look... ick. I'm more than willing to clean it up, move them about and whatnot.
@ # 5: I can help clean members, as I said before.