Do people here actually READ threads?

That's pretty much how most message boards run.

I just post random crap wherever I feel fit....

SQUIRREL

One feature I always have on my forums that I run is the "new reply check." a lot of times what happens on this board is someone reads an entire thread, hits reply, types up a response, and then by the time they hit post, 20 more people have replied, and their post is outdated. There should be a feature, like I said, I have it on every forum I run, that when you hit post, if other replies have been posted, it should show them, giving you the opportunity to amend your post to make sense, rather than hitting post, looking back at the thread, and then scrambling to hit "edit" to try and make your post make sense.

SO YOU WANT TO BE A DRAGON?
Veteran players are returning to the game to wait out the arrival of patch 4.3. Elsewhere, feet are dragging. Guilds are disbanding. Former 25-man raid teams are splintering into 10s. And Spin the Dragon is receiving far more applications than usual.

We've been fielding a lot of questions: is your guild application serious? Why are you asking me about this? Do you really expect me to answer these? What if I don't like 3-D dolphins?

Our guild application is as serious as something that's asking you to please write a story about two pokemon fighting can be, and we keep it that way because it works. The way you answer social questions tells us a little bit about you (and gives you a pretty good idea of who we are, too). But just in case you'd like to know more: Spin the Dragon is a Horde guild on the US-Sentinels (RP) server. We've been here for two years, but our officer corp (and some of our raiders) go back much further. At any given time of day our Vent server's hosting someone playing TF2, EverQuest or Minecraft. The rest of us are on Facebook at work asking for help growing imaginary strawberries or something.

While raiding is our primary focus, you don't have to raid if you don't want to. If you are apping to raid, we're more interested in your personality than your experience. If you're a Decent Dude (or Lady) with demonstrated knowledge of your class -- or a willingness to learn and improve -- we're interested in hearing from you.


THE FINE PRINT:
If you don't have the best gear or the most experience, that's fine. We're willing to help gear up the right people for our progression raiding. Our raid leaders will often rotate raiders based on the amount of accepted invitations and what specialized classes may be needed for a particular fight, or previous raiding experience/seniority. Additionally, we do hold some basic expectations of our raiders in order to participate:

- A computer capable of handing twenty-five man raiding with minimal add-ons (DBM, Omen, etc.) and Ventrilo without serious lag.
- A reliable, consistent internet connection.
- Arriving to the raid on time and with knowledge of the raid, if available.
- Knowing your role, class, and spec and remaining up-to-date on each.
- Understanding and accepting that you may be rotated out (or in) to a raid for certain class roles.
- The ability to listen and react.

We generally run our raids two to three nights a week anywhere from 9PM to 12AM (EST). Beyond that, we also run the weekly up to twice a week, and host arena teams which we highly encourage our raiders to participate in. If there are any old content raids or other events that our guild members want to run, we encourage them to get together and fill any empty calendar days. Here's a rough outline of our schedule by week:

Sunday: Progression Raiding
Monday: Progression Raiding
Tuesday: Open/PvP
Wednesday: Guild Achievements/TRANSMOG BONANZA (9PM - 11PM EST)
Thursday: Open/PvP
Friday: Open/PvP
Saturday: Open/PVP

Loot disbursement is done by a Ni Karma system; a great explanation of NKS can be found here: http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/07/18/nonstandard-loot-systems-in-wow-page-2/. Anyone who negatively takes advantage of the system or otherwise acts in poor conduct will be dealt with accordingly by our guild officers. All of our active raiders are given access to gold for repairs, flasks, food, and help with any materials or enchantments you need to get the best out of your gear.


OPENINGS & MORE INFO:
1 DPS, ranged preferred (a skilled hunter would be dandy), but we're willing to work around things for a solid performer.

Apply at spin.wowstead.com. Any questions can be sent to Heed in-game, or if you prefer email, youthculture@gmail.com. Players interested in joining Spin as a non-raider can still fill out the application or contact Heed for more info.
[Spin the dragon? wtf? What a horrible name for a guild. And adult men play porting this guild tag, oh boy....]
[Oh, WTF, they use NKS!!! Whatever you do, don't apply to this guild, they don't use DKP FFS!]

I usually read through them to get a sense of what the topic really is, but I don't read the cut and pasted crap that goes on forever like above.

Edit: I didn't mean to say that it's not relevant or to put down this person's reference. I was just trying to say that it's much more info than I want to collate. If I want to research something, I will. I was just referring to the volume. Didn't mean to put down whoever I copied that article from.