Please do explain your point of view, as for a Guild that it works for, Elemental Light functions quite well with this principal.
If a problem occurs that needs an immediate resoloution I tend to poll online members in guild chat and go with the consensus,
its worked so far, obviously any non-immediate threat is dealt with via polls on our forums.
Im interested to hear your reasoning though.
That's what I thought. This system works ok for the larger guilds, but not the smaller guilds I've been in. If you have a guild with less than 20 members, then everyone wants to be a part of the vote, so you can't really leave anyone out. However, although it's the right thing to let everyone vote, it's going to take the rest of your life to get everyone to actually do it. In the meantime, your guild is stuck in limbo.
So essentially, what I'm saying is, if you have a hundred members, and you can get 50 of them in-game at the same time to vote, then you're all right, but if you've only got 15 members and only 6 of them are around to vote, then it gets sort of unfair.
It also depends on your guild structure. If you're a mass-recruiting guild then democracy is really the only thing that makes sense, but if you're a selective-recruiting guild then democratic system becomes clumsy.I just think that in a guild situation, if you want everyone to help make a decision, then EVERYONE needs to be involved, not just half or most or whatever. Whereas if guild policy is controlled by a few higher ranking members who are respected and trusted by the rest, it streamlines the process. The only difficulty with that is that your guilds have to be more selective.