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PostPosted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 4:54 am


When you come to the GGN and you want to start up a guild, it can be really hard to decide where to begin. How do I set up the guild? How do I get graphics? What subforums do I want? And most importantly - where are my members going to come from? surprised

I'd like to get some resources started that specifically look at the challenges new captains face and explain the simplest and best ways to actually make a guild begin. So it'd be fantastic if you're a more experienced captain, or you've successfully started up a guild that is working out well, or you're just a regular ol' member in a guild and you watched what the captain did to start it up and it worked out really well, please stop by this thread.

Post any of your suggestions for starting a guild, what you think the first steps should be and how you would suggest getting members to join.

Thank you!
PostPosted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 5:19 am


I personally think the best way to first get people to join is simply by inviting them. Really, it's hard for people to find out about it - and besides, you're more likely to respond to an invitation than to just visiting the guild's home page.

The important thing, both for the guild's benefit and for respecting the other person, is to make very sure they are likely to be interested in it. If you're making a guild about a book series then it would be a good idea to lurk and/or post in the Entertainment Discussion forum and its subforum for books to find individuals who are already interested in the series or genre your guild is going to be about. If you're making a tech help guild, spend some time in the Computers & Technology forum or its subforum to find people who would get the most out of - and therefore perhaps give the most to - your guild community.

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:35 pm


Like you said, sending invations member by member seems to be the most effective way. I've seen Giveaways, lotto, ect, with the link to the guild in the second post, but there never seems to be any good members joining. Word of Mouth is probaly the best way to get members, it might not be too effective, but it will get you members.
You Might want to send it to all your friends on Gaia useing the Friend's at Gaia, but only once, I always send it with a warning in the title that it is a friends@gaia mail.
Afflates do help, but also sometimes hinder yourself, try to find a group of people or thread that is simlar, but not the same as yours and ask to be afflates. Don't afflate your Guild with a guild that does the SAME Exact thing, and make sure to ask before doing so. I have somebody's advertisement stuck on the first page for some time in a Lotto, advertiseing another Lotto, and I found it really annoying.

Always try to find the people you want to join, there is no point in sending invites to artist for a Pollwhore Guild, and a Pollwore to a RP guild, like already stated, going in the forum and finding key members is a great way.

If you lucky, you might get the Guild Spotlight like what happened to the Art Freebie Land, and then it rolls in the members, a majorty who post often and stick around! 3nodding Hope something in there helps.

On a Unrelated subject, this guild won't show up under my guilds, and I did NOT set it to hidden sweatdrop
PostPosted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 8:48 am


I saw this thread, like, the day it was made but... I actually made, like, half a post in response, but then I just deleted it because I wasn't satisfied with it XD .

OK... examining a new guild I'm in...

They need to learn how to take a whole big fat truckload of criticism and TAKE IT LIKE A MAN. I'm just pissed right now, because in that new guild, I gave a whole bunch of suggestions on different things of their's (you should know how I get with that XD ), on their banner sticky, on their subforums, on their content, on their contests, etc.. And then one of the two Vice gets 'annoyed' because I was suggesting stuff in practically every thread, including his contest thread, and 'negated' most of my suggestions with his reasoning (which in turn, I went b***h-rant-mod on him and got peeved about it, and negated his reasoning right back). If a guild's Vice can't take criticism, where the hell is that guild gonna' go? I was just trying to be helpful, because the guild was started and run by a bunch of friends from another guild of mine. I just feel like quitting and never looking in there again now.

Oh, oh, before I forget; could you write anything about unique-project guilds? You know there are the typical guilds and all, poll guilds, RP guilds, etc.. But some guilds are a bit different, right?

The guild I was complaining about earlier, it's a 'big-project' guild; it's called 'Roller's Shop-a-Palooza', where a person can set up shop in there. You know, like a mini-Minishops-forum or something. Your guild is rather unique, I must say. I'm personally thinking of a guild made to educate about Online Art Theft.

Yah, but of course, what to do with those sorts of guild are probably a case-by-case thing, huh? Oh, I guess never mind then XP .

I think, really, that the best thing that a Captain could do for himself in order to start out is just to read your guide, the guides and FAQs and such in CG, and browse CG itself for a while to figure out common new-guild-captain problems and such.

Right now, I'm having a horrible difficulty with recruition; I'd be lucky if I could scrape up 5 members from 30 invitees XP .

<3 Ali

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 10:11 pm


Ok. I don't think I can answer this correctly.

Me and my real-life friends have our own guild. We are 40 students all and we want a guild/community where no can join but only us.

So basically, I just PM them if they want to join our guild. They replied back said "Yes!". They send requests, I accept them, and that's that!
PostPosted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 7:27 pm


Such as in "Reality" I beleive we should invite our friends list. Even if we don't "Think" they aren't going to be interested. We should make a thread in the Forums to get more members! After getting more member I think we should start picking crew & vice captains.

We should have more subforums when people start donating. We need subforums like a Question and Assistance subforum.Then we could get moderators for the subforums! razz

In this way we will recruit many members! If we start doing this sooner or later we will have many members.

Ask a captain of another guild,

Ask a captain of another guild if you can advertise this guild. That way the members from that guild would start joining!

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WhingingNinja

PostPosted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 2:00 am


I think a guild should have many different subforums to cater for all different types of topics and so forth. Staff, crew and so on should be quick with accepting requests and should be open to letting "different" types of people in so that its not all the same type of people starting a clique.
PostPosted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 1:18 pm


Making the topic for the guild is one of the hardest choices. You want to make a guild where people can relax, hangout, and just stay there no matter what. A guild which people can be easily attracted to and never quit. Next, inviting members is the best choice. Go the the chatterbox and seek some people. Keep talking and debating in your guild and always make the right choices. 3nodding

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NIIICK

PostPosted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 10:17 am


The way that I usually achieve active members no matter whom they may truly be, is that i offer them things and events that they want to hear. I give them chances to gain high ranking titkes. I give them chance. I'm saying if your a hard working members and devoted gaian, then joining my guild will totally benifit you. Helping out in forum creation, tracking and patrolling members that are breaking TOS. The regular stuff like that is a basic way to put in active members. Give them chances to become great and so them how wonderful they are in your guild. Sure its a bit of a brown noseing tech, but its true, without people like them your guild will be nothing. To find people i go to towns, Towns has so many people its no funny and if you have a very luring opening speech offer then you'll have many people coming to you. and remember anyone can become a great guild member, its all about chance and oppertunity that you give them
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