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The Neopian Times Week 128 > Articles > What to Look For in a Guild

What to Look For in a Guild

by xx__pixiestix__xx

GUILD HEADQUARTERS - With the title being said, I am sure you can guess what this article will be about and what kind of information it will provide you. We have had numerous amounts of 'How to Create a Good Guild' articles, and in the past 3 weeks not a single article about the guildless people who don't want to make a guild or simply can't make an appealing one. If you are one of these people and can't decide a guild to join, this article will help you. Aside from trying to find a guild, if you are trying to make one, this article could certainly help you out, too.

Firstly, if you are one of the guildless Neopians, the very first step is to know where they are advertised. The Guild Message board is a great place to find guilds with your interests and active members, and maybe someone could be wanting to help make someone a guild? You may want to ask them about it, because if you have a helping hand a guild can be a greater success than you think. When I did this, we had 33 members join our guild in one day. This proves two heads are better than one. If you are forbidden to go to the chat boards because you are not old enough and haven't had parental permission, then you may want to just simply browse through the neighborhoods, or of course, the notice board is always there for you too. Most of the time, great guilds will be advertised there.

Now that you know where some of the great guilds can be located, the next step is of course to know what to look for to make sure it is a great guild.

The layout is the first thing to look for. Make sure the layout is organized and easy to navigate to other guild-related links from. Guild layouts don't always have to be a blog, They can simply be an image with an introduction under it along with all the guild links. Original layouts are the best pick. Make sure to check to see if the layout matches the theme of the guild. You wouldn't want to join a Baby Neopets guild and find out the whole thing has to do with a famous singer, would you? Even if you like the layout and it doesn't have to do with the theme, don't join the guild, because whoever made the layout (Which is most likely the leader) probably doesn't know how to manage a guild, and doesn't know where their head is either. Just to make sure you don't get sick of the guild, ask the leader how often the layouts change if at all, and if the amount doesn't suit you, look for another guild to join. Remember, there are thousands, maybe even millions of guilds for you to join.

The #1 thing to watch out for, though, is the members and council. The guild should be active and friendly, and be there to help you. Make sure to notice of the guild likes to spam, because once you join and try to introduce yourself on the message board, and there are all these short posts like 'hi' and 'I have a dog', you won't have a clue where to start because you don't know what anyone is talking about. The messages should be at least 3 lines long. I will write down some examples of messages.

Bad: hi ppl I like dogs

Good: Hello everyone, I am (name), and I just love dogs and I hope some of you share the same love of dogs with me. I have 2 of them, and they are named ___ and ___ and their breeds are ___ and ___. Some of my favorite breeds are ____, ____,_____,and ______. Please let me know if you are interested in dogs too! It was very nice meeting you all, please reply!

The first message was bad because it is too short; it is annoying and takes up space on the message board. They also didn't introduce them self properly. The next message was longer, it showed more compassion for their liking of dogs, and introduced them self properly. When you join a guild, neomail the leader to introduce yourself. If they reply back saying thanks and introducing them self and telling you a little bit about the guild, this is a responsible leader who will manage the guild well. Take note of the day the guild was made. Suppose it was made today, and the council was already chosen. This means council wasn't chosen carefully and the council could very well be nasty or even a scammer. You might not want to join a guild like this.

Next, the guild shouldn't be all about competitions. If the guild has 5 competitions or more, don't join. The members who joined are probably just there for the competitions, not for anything else, and they won't be active or friendly they will just be busy trying to win these competitions. Never, EVER join a guild with raffles or lottery. These are most likely scams to try to get more neopoints. For example, if a guild said they were having a raffle for a hidden tower item, and you had to buy a ticket in a shop, you are being tricked if you don't even see the item in the shop and if the tickets are around 5,000 neopoints or more. It could be around 1,000 and still be a scam though, so watch out. For your safety, just don't participate in these kind of things.

It is a very good idea to join a guild that has a set of rules to follow. This makes the guild better, and it lets you know the guild is managed well. You should always join a guild that follows every rule of the Neopets terms and conditions, too. It lets you know the guild is safe and managed great. Some guilds say they follow the terms and conditions, but they may not. They may just be saying that so they can have a better chance of scamming someone, so keep an eye out for that.

With all this being said, you should have some sort of a picture or an idea of what to look for in guilds. All of the things above are great things to look for, but they are still my opinion. So let's look at other Neopian's opinions, because they can help you out, too.

Band_on_the_roof: Guild Activities, Friendly Members, Active Guild

Kandy_kittie76: What band_on_the_roof said, and also if it is about something I'm interested in. Like, I am in a Harry Potter guild because I like Harry Potter. I would not join a guild about Dragon Ball Z because I'm not into DBZ, but other people might be.

Starwarsnut91730: Guild Activities, active members, fun stuff, links to cool places.

Jamiegirlroxdaworld: A guild with nice, active people, and contests. It shouldn't have too many people though, because I don't want to be overwhelmed and have no one hearing what I say.

Elianorra: I look for nice people, active; have a lot of fun activities and such. I know when I put up messages, no one helps me, but I help other people...

Now, from these opinions, do you have an idea of what to look for? Guaranteed everything in this article is true, because if guilds have these features, they are a great guild. Guilds don't always have to do with giveaways, competitions/contests, and other things like that. It is about the members and management and what was mentioned above. Thanks, I hope my article helped you!

Note: I got the permission from all the people in this article to have their name in The Neopian Times. They may not remember it though because this was a long while ago O_O


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