Update To Our Cs:go Division + Referral Rewards

@TheSupremePatriot I believe silence doesn't really like the functionality of it, but i'll discuss with him today after work :)

how about we instead make being a member worth something again by reverting the required amount of vouches back to 10?

I like this^. People can just get their friends who are in the clan the +1 them even if they are hated if its set to only 4 vouches.

how about we instead make being a member worth something again by reverting the required amount of vouches back to 10?

Is this actually true?

Yep. Standards used to be higher. Vouches that held no weight or didn't offer any sort of insight (IE. The dreaded "+1 cool guy, good warden") weren't counted toward the applicant's overall +1s. Nowadays, it looks like reducing the number of vouches required is either a cause-and-effect introduced by other Divisions lowering their required vouches a while back or just an effort to gain more active Members, but I digress.

 

I don't know, I can understand why it's been reduced, but at this point it's becoming more of a chore than it is an honour to be a full Member of Xeno Gamers. That is to say, 4 vouches (even 5) are so incredibly easy to obtain that it's literally going to be little to no effort to actually get into Xeno Gamers; especially with the kind of vouches that I see on a daily basis (two-word vouches reign).

 

By no means am I questioning the reasoning behind changing the vouching process as I'm sure it isn't purely due to the reasons I mentioned. I'm just worried that becoming an actual Member of Xeno Gamers will [eventually] mean little to nothing aside from gaining access for Staff consideration.

I understand some of the concerns, the reason why I'm not too worried is because right now with the server populations as it is, and how it is not summer, it is not easy to get the amount of vouches, especially from a D+ as they have their own lives, and can not get on servers to be that 1 extra vouch for that person who might need it. I think it's fine as our process to get mod is significantly harder than it was a few years ago, and is heavily discussed between many staff behind the scenes on top of getting community feedback.

 

On top of this, we want people who are active on the servers to be members so they can help us improve, the harder it is for them to obtain membership, the less likely they will stay in a place they feel "unwanted" if you will. Members who do not represent the community well can easily be removed as well. We do promise to not sell staff anymore so we do have the advantage of good quality staff at all times in our servers compared to other more populated but pay to staff servers.

 

If we want to compete and constantly improve, we unfortunately need more eyes on our servers and we believed that this would be a good start. Please feel free to continue giving feedback as discussion is important with issues like this.