I mean, there are problems where talking to the parties in question does not help. When someone’s in-game goal is to become an officer, and they’d simply be bad at it. When you have a quality person who you can center a guild on, except that they have one friend who causes Mount Drama to erupt every holiday season. My leadership posts were for other people trying to muddle through these leadership problems. They weren’t for the people who caused the problems.

In short, I feel that there’s no responsibility to be public. Privacy can be maintained. Just be careful with technical details, scrub the names and personal details, and don’t tell anyone that you blog.

Anyway, nice to see that you’re still doing great stuff here Matticus.

My immediate reaction was to make a post about it, not to point and laugh or call anyone out or anything like that. More just to demonstrate some of the crazy things that someone might experience when they end up in a guild officer role.

I ended up sitting on it for a couple days because I wasn’t sure the exact right way to handle a post like that. Like I said…it was touchy. Ultimately I changed names, left out the vast majority of the details, and any semblance of opinion.

It also helped that I had about 2 readers at the time. But yeah. Goes to show.
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What happened to Tam was very unfortunate, and in ways, quite similar to people who have lost actual employment because they kept a blog. Full-disclosure seems like the best policy. My guild knows about my blog, because they urged me to start it. Ophelie’s right, having someone in guild remark about something you wrote or otherwise give cues that they’ve been reading is a nice feeling. If other guildies decided to keep blogs I’d be thrilled!
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My other guild, where I don’t know anyone in RL, does not know about my blog. It’s not that I’m hiding it, I just haven’t mentioned it. I don’t blog negative things about the guild or anything, I think not telling anyone is just me being shy.
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Psh.

That takes away the thrill of the hunt. Besides, there’s only room in the guild for one arrogant, know-it-all crazy person and that position’s already held ^^. Actually, all I did was google your name and your blog and I found it.

As a new, shy blogger, I hadn’t quite found my voice yet and wasn’t familiar with the view from the inside of the community so I was pretty embarrassed going up to a big name blogger asking to join his guild! My main worry was that I’d be laughed at for my crappy writing skills.

At the same time, my writing has a very personal tone and not every guild is ok with that. I also like to write about guild management, communication and interpersonal relationships. I figured that I should at least mention I had a blog, in case someone had a problem with the topics I covered. I didn’t want “you never told us about your blog and you’re an arrogant, know-it-all crazy person” to be held against me weeks later.

My guess was that my blog was revealed via the Healer Webring thing (after all, I was the first paladin to answer so my weird character name was on the top of the list). I did get some “Rykga blog” search engine hits, but not until *after* I got a “nice blog” comment on the my guild application!

And I have to say, now I’m really glad my guildies know about my blog. I love when they comment and I especially love when I’m greeted in game by guildies who have something to say about one of my posts. Being a very shy person, I’ve found that having a blog eases conversation quite a bit.
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