Our guild has just received it’s first cross-realm guild application in the guild finder - awesome…
Only - I can’t send in game mail to the applicant to verify they understand the guild rules before inviting them. I can’t send them whispers to try and talk to them. I’m betting I couldn’t specifically invite them to group unless we were already BNet friends.
I run an LGBTQI and ND friendly guild - we screen all applicants to ensure our members won’t be subject to abuse or bullying. I have no mechanism in game to make contact with a cross-realm applicant in order to screen them.
This seems really short sighted to give access to the guild finder without also giving access to in game mail or whispers.
As Darth mentioned, feedback like this won’t go any further than right here. No one who can make a potential change come to this specific forum.
I’d suggest editing this and moving it to General chat, though given the nature it might be best to simply pass the feedback along using the in game feedback tool. Or just simply ask for guild applicant mail access and keep it straightforward.
In the meantime, at least it’s free and easy to create a character on the applicants realm to send them a message. Not elegant, but it’s a solution for the moment.
Would it be permitted for their Guild Finder recruitment notice to include a reference to a Discord channel (or some similar facsimile) to allow for out of game communication? Sometimes references to third party sites in these sorts of notices are ToU violations. I wouldn’t want someone to get into trouble. This, of course, assumes her guild uses an out of game communication platform.
I’m familiar with ‘LGBTQ’ of course, but what does the ‘I’ and the ‘ND’ refer to?
ChatGPT does a really good job of helping out with questions like this. ‘I’ tends to stand for intersex and ‘ND’, according to what I looked up, references Neurodivergent.
Many of my players have been bullied directly or indirectly and often have to mask aspects of themselves in their daily lives - part of the guild ‘charter’ is that people have space to be themselves provided they aren’t bullying or harassing others.
We’ve had bad experiences in the past with open recruiting ending up with people who have bigoted attitudes shaming people so we need to screen all applicants to ensure they know what the guild is about.
We also screen for under 18s as guild chat can be fairly adult on occasions.
