with the decision of giving them power, i say at minimum they should be entitled to submit applicants with priority. second, i say that we should at LEAST test the people that they vouch for, otherwise WTF is the "voucher" or "reference" section of our OWN application for...
i agree with allowing them to help make decisions such as when they say someone should join it should automatically count as a vote for that person along with higher priority for testing.
there are two problems that i see:
the first is trying to force us to accept members. I understand the sense of urgency about keeping Evil alive but please give at least the co-leaders time to make a decision or at least 2 members. if it were up to me you guys would be considered at minimum in our voting system senior members or elites.
the other problem is getting all of our members on the same page about this sense of urgency as it would seem that not all of our members agree that we're not active...
yes people like yerug, hellobob, shadowdance and xtreme have all come back from being inactive but we've lost more activity than what we've gained back. we need to realize that how we treat our applicants shows future applicants what to expect and if we ever expect to gain members we need to at least show our applicants some respect and not just flat out say "fuck off"
i honestly hope this makes sense, I love the fact that I'm in Evil and i thank Tripstone for vouching for me to sorrow. without tripstone's voucher i wouldn't be here (at least not without applying and with our current inability to reasonably vote on applicants i would not have gotten in)
if i'm saying anything it's that vouchers from allies is a strong way to gain members and to realize that hey "our allies are good, perhaps they know what other members are good and that their suggestions should be more helpful and have more priority than any regular applicant"
it's not an easy task getting vouched for by tripstone or eVo or any other member of evolution so that being said what they bring to the table does matter and we've been brushing it aside as if their suggestions were just regular applicants...