If we are going to boot people from the clan, we should come up with some sort of standardized evaluation. I'm not particularly fond of the way we and other clans have done it in the past. And I'd definitely appreciate it if people didn't use the p word. We don't have "purges" we have "moderated organized peer evaluations."
I think first though, we should message them, tell them what we are doing. We'll give them a few weeks or so, where if they increase their involvement, we'll let them stick around without having to re-apply.
We should also give anyone who is booted ample opportunities to reapply.
Inactive people should just be put on an inactive list rather than kicked.
As for the voting system, Wizzard has the right idea. But we shouldn't just do anonymous voting, we should force people to provide a reason for it (anonymously of course), and any other comments. An anonymous evaluation of the members. Finally, I think members should be able to vote for as many people as they want, or none at all.
How do we do it anonymously though, while being sure that it is only our members? I can think of two systems, one would be where we don't do it anonymously but we instead PM all the comments and votes to one of the clan organizers, since we obviously can't kick them in the first place. Another way is that I could format the old USSR-loelarcade forums, have you all register, disable registrations, check the members to make sure you are who you say you are, and then have posts made anonymously (well, I'd rename your account to 1, 2, 3, etc, so that we could distinguish people, eg, what might appear as a bunch of people denouncing a certain member isn't just one person posting over and over).
I think part of the reason we should an evaluation based on member's opinions rather than building ability is because I think of USSR more of a group of friends who enjoy building things together rather than a clan based on competitively building. Building well is part of the application process, everyone in the clan can build fine to one degree or another, we should really be focusing on "can I build with this person?" rather than "can this person build?" I mean, yes, if you can't build you don't belong in USSR, but the idea is that they wouldn't have been in the clan in the first place if they couldn't build.
But before we do any of this, we should get a real dedicated server up.
Speaking of which, I think we need to start a team build now. I think there are a couple of ideas floating around, I recall Stalingrad, the Chrysler building, and working some more on the canyon. I think we should jump back into it with something simple though, since it's been a while. Maybe we should try re-hosting that Blockland Neighborhood build we hosted on Celestial Dreams on RTB. We can show off our server and builds, put our server back out there as a major clan server (all the newer members might not have had an opportunity to experience [USSR]Primary), get non-members interested in the USSR community again, and possibly attract some new builders.
Oh, one last thing.
One day, God was becoming lonely. So he blew himself and had sons.
