This is kind of brilliant

Anexxia over at Bible of Dreams has come up with what I consider to be a pretty damn good idea:

I think we have all at one time or another, watched a hacked guildie's characters silently log on and rob the guild bank dry. Or have been offended by a guildie trolling trade chat, making everyone who wore your guild name plate look bad. Inevitably, these things happen when there aren't any officers on to help deflect the drama.

What if in such a situation, a guild member could initiate a guild kick vote? And if it passed (i.e. the majority of those members on at any given time said yes, or whatever threshold your GM set it at), said member would be demoted to a no-bank access and no gchat capability guild status level, and the next time an Officer logged in, they would have a blinking guild management icon alerting them they needed to read what happened and decide the guildie's fate?

I really have to admit that this is fairly brilliant. While I am not sure how the mechanics of the thing would work out, it could really come in handy for all people involved. Guilds would have a way to regulate issues such as hacking/gbank high jinx without flooding the ticket system, thereby taking up Game Master's time that could be better spent elsewhere.

She goes on to talk about using the same type of interface to set up a system where a quorum amongst the guild officers is needed to boot someone from the guild, thereby preventing some emo-related gkick drama.

The system would prompt all officers when they logged on, alerting them to something that needed their attention.

I'm on the fence about that one, but tend to say "let things be" on this issue. It's one thing to protect the guild from gbank theft due to some hacking/keylogging that went on, it's another to over-regulate social interactions.

If the guild officers need to pow wow on how to handle a certain person, including one of their own, they can do that in /ochat or on the guilds forums (provided they have their own section for these types of discussions).

All in all, some insightful stuff though.