Do u think GM's should have their own WOE guild?

[laoganma]

Scenario A
After WOE, some of his members went to PVP,... one was full of pride and wanted to show off a bit... he accidentally slipped out that his Guild leader spawn an EDP using his GM character. Angry players started posting on forum and Admin came to know about it.

Scenario B
A week later, Admin looked at GM log, noticed a spawn during WOE time. Further investigation revealed that it was replaced right after WOE. Nobody else knows about it expect the Admin. Nobody might remember that WOE, since a week has passed.

The real questions to ask yourself
1. Do you believe that no matter what the Admin chooses to do, harm will be done to the reputation of the GM Team and the server? Of course in Scenario B, the Admin could opt for a cover-up, but if discovered later, would mean a bigger problem.
2. Could your server recover from this blow?
3. Would you risk it?

The GM knows it was wrong to do what he did. He was not acting himself when he WOEing, he got caught up in the moment. He was a WOE Guild Leader with the intention to win. He got desperate. And he strongly belives if he replace the EDP later, it will not be a big deal. It's just an EDP after all.

scenario A : admin can always deny it easily with support from his players (suck ups), people tend to join a guild if they know the said guild is made by the server admin or GM resulting more players to join which also means stronger supports.

scenario B :  2 possibilities here, if the "corrupt" GM has close relationship with the Admin (real life friend or family), big chance he might just let it go hoping the GM wont do it again. if otherwise as in the "corrupt" GM is nobody, he can always hire a new GM, just announce and come clean, and hope players will understand.

[bleu]

Summary of Findings

An overwhelming, majority of RMS users (70%) who participated in this thread do not approve GMs having their own guilds or actively participate in WOE. Some RMS users have sighted past encounters, where GMs who led in WOE or actively WOE invariably led to abuse of power. A few have even gone as far as stating that GMs should only be performing GM related duties and not playing the game on their server.

There is a small number of RMS users (30%) who supports GMs having their own guilds or be allowed to actively participate in WOE. Most supporters had strict conditions attached with their opinions, expressing their approval only if there are tight controls to monitor the actions of the GMs for any corrupt behaviors or other measures have been taken to sufficiently prevent and deter any temptations.

[Pandora]

Nice summary!

[Guest]

Nice summary!

agreed ^^
x3 but out of that 70% how many are against GM's playing legits at all?

[bleu]

Nice summary!

agreed ^^
x3 but out of that 70% how many are against GM's playing legits at all?

I thought that it would be inappropriate to answer that. Coz, the question of this thread was more geared towards: sShould GM's be allowed to lead a WOE Guild? or actively participate in WOE?. There is however another thread which would be able to better answer Triple J's question. Should GM's be allowed to have any legit characters at all on their server? - be it for WOE or for other reasons.