I'll break this rather tangential and high and mighty statement down:
evilbrainbabies
Because people come here with the intent of taking up space. The internet is a free environment to do as you please.
Of course it is, and most do. That includes you. And if you want to do something, get some intelligent people here to post or shut up.
evilbrainbabies
Whether it be to post logical information, not post at all and lurk... or just not post anything of importance and spamspamspam with nonsense that makes no logical point what so ever.
Thus the chatterbox sub-forum and a rather large crew to keep all this "illogical" stuff out. No one cares what these people are doing outside this guild, I most of all, so leave them out of it.
evilbrainbabies
And as far as your statistics go... They mean absolutely nothing when you start deleting members and getting new ones.
No one is talking about getting new members. This is all a fabrication of your own making. I am talking about what we can do about all the members we already have (plus, this is a public guild, we can post without joining. Even I did that).
evilbrainbabies
And on top of that, why base anything off of counts when in my opinion it's the quality that matters?
My guild has that many members, I stated above, and that many posts. So far no one has just sat there and spammed outside the areas where they are allowed to spam whatever the hell they want. And guess what? It is either interesting, funny, or just general banter. None of the above are bad things. So I would say that out of a very active group of ten people we've done well for ourselves. We're a guild of intelligent people.
evilbrainbabies
I'd rather be in a place with much less on post counts and people but have communication skills that have a serious potential rating in comparison to some of the top ten guilds right now that are all chatterbox-based.
No one brought in anything about making the top guilds spot, stop making s**t up, this is not what I am talking about, this guild doesn't need post count, it needs people to be more active. I am sure that a lot of the people are intelligent enough to hold their own.
Also if you want intelligent conversation and a place that isn't all CB-oriented, make a guild of your own and fill it with only those who will have intelligent conversation.
evilbrainbabies
Of course I am not bashing any of these guilds. I am just stating if I was to compare where I would be, here is way better.
Of course here is way better, and this place is obviously not a Chatterbox even though it has one. I just want a lot more of the members to be active.
evilbrainbabies
And besides, we can't control people- as often as I wish I could, because maybe then Dane Cook and the Black Eyed Peas would be dead by now...
The latter part of this statement is irrelevant. The former part is also pretty stupid, I'm not talking about controlling all 3000 of these members and telling them to post, I am only wondering how to get some of them to be more active.
evilbrainbabies
But simple facts are people have a right to join or not, and people have a right to post or not.
And guess, what? I already said it, anyone can post here. Even if they don't join. I want to get those that have joined to show some initiative to this guild.
evilbrainbabies
If they aren't interested, then oh well.
If they aren't interested then why did they join the guild? Because having fifty billion guilds in their list of joined guilds is cool, no doubt.
evilbrainbabies
I don't think we are losing any sleep over them. But we are always happy as a guild to have them here when they do get the inspiration to make a post.
Of course not, because you're in a little safety bubble that you think is great. I think a three thousand member guild should have at least 100 heavily active members and 500 sparingly active members, and the rest just taking up the proverbial internet space.
Inspire them with guild announcements to the masses. Tell them that we have interesting s**t going on here. Get at least that hundred of them to be more active. I hate guilds that have ridiculous numbers of members and as few of them as this guild has active active. It's pointless to have that many members, simple as that.