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OK, I'm counting the recent member drive as a success for what it was.

The main problems I see with it:
Made current member feel excluded. [I really felt that we should of had a way for current member to enjoy it also but at the time I wasn't as concerned since I could count the current member on one hand]

The amount of time I had to put into it. [It really did take a lot of effort just with keeping up and replying to the PMs. Had I been working it would have been near impossible. Also just not being able to be at the thread making sure people are following the rules.]

Prizes. I didn't really put any real thought into what type of things would bring people into the thread. It was more just looking at my mules and gathering stuff I didn't want anymore. I think my katana giveaway was way better just because it's an item not many people can afford. But I wanted to give people more chances to win by giving away several cheaper Item rather that one big one.

The good things:
We gained about 70 new members. [And a lot of them have stayed and expresses real interest in our guild.]

Sigs[ I know we reached a few people by sigs and by making them part of the contest I think it's a great way to reach members in all different forums of Gaia.]

New members actually posting.[ So many members with 0 posts, they come in, they never post they leave and don't really come back. ]

Ok, so discuss. If all goes well our next member drive should start sometime around the 12th. How can we make this better?

My ideas for the next contest: Cash shop items. I just hate that some people can't afford them and they're so ******** expensive in the marketplace.

I personally hate these but: recruiting contest - points for each person recruited, each post by person recruited, and for each person that person recruits etc.

And to handle the workload, maybe you could give the other officers access to the guild mule? So its not just you and john who have to administrate the contest boards and stuff?

See we did do a recruiting contest something like that when RAG first opened, it went well. Problems I see with it, crew couldn't participate[we have major advantage with invite feature], Mules[I know not everyone has 10 mules that could pass for active accounts with little effort, but I kinda do D':], and just keeping track of who invited who might present a problem. Plus I kinda hate them too.

Well the crew kind has their own lives. Also confusion over who has done what and when. Things I don't know how to respond to[threats, holes in rules, people I feel are cheating, icky stuff.] I leave in the inbox until I can talk it over with john. If 4 people were answering PMs it would be easy to get mixed up. But I am going to get a few more people involved in hanging around the actual thread. I would like miss gaps of 30+ pages and not even be able to read what people were writing.

You could split several contests,for each crew member,or some other really responsible member that would WANT to.(i wouldn't force people to. >.<)And the ones that wanted to could do several contest with different,or same prizes,except that would sort of mean giving up their stuff.I don't know though.They would have to have a lot of unwanted items other people would want. sweatdrop I don't think that would work.

i like all the ideas :'D
esp. the cash shop one.
only problem i saw was with the you must have x number of posts one...
cause people will come and just bump however many times they need then never come back...
and i wouldnt call bumping 30 times active. :/

also:
would we even have enough to get items from the cash shop?
or would we need real money for it?
where would we get it?

@water:
ah, ok
well, you shouldnt go overboard with it then x:

also
i agree with the no bumping... xD
this place should be more spontaneous than a silly ole bump :b
but what i meant was that if you try to hold a contest for the older members so they dont feel left out, youre going to have a hard time doing it :/
cause you cant see the day people joined, so youd have to go by post number.
but if you say only people with x number of posts can join, newer people are going to go around bumping everything until they have enough posts to join :/

I wish my boss would just call me so I know my hours. I want to be here for the first days of the contests. Just like that a*****e to totally forget about me like always.

I hope he gets hit by a car.

Gosh this is getting complicated, maybe we should just run a contest to include anyone in RAG period?

that whole mule ninja thing sounds kinda complicated too o.o
maybe we should i dunno....
do a lotto thingie?
for everyone?
so that way we can be prejudiced or something.
i dunno D:
it hurts my few brain cells :<