I'm not sure what your exact experience was as you seem pretty fired up.
But as someone who ran guilds for 15 years, I can say that it's a lot easier to keep people out of your FC/guild than to deal with the drama that usually comes with removing them after the fact. It's also the responsibility of the GM/leadership to protect what they have put a lot of time and energy into creating, and to make sure every applicant actually fits since their current membership is counting on them to not bring in problem children. You'll never know for sure, even after a 30 day trial period, but GM's will do their best to screen and filter.
As for applications and processes, I guess the effort shown to get in by the applicant is something that most GM's see as important as well. I did. Anyone who ever joins a guild has to understand just how much goes into creating, maintaining, administrating and growing a guild. It's a thankless job for the most part, where someone puts in their (GM) free time to make sure others (members) have a fun place to spend their recreational time without worry every time they log in.
There are plenty of guilds out there who do not have applications and you can just /whisper someone for an invite. But if someone wants to join a specific guild because they seem to have a lot going on, seem to be popular and really well run.. it wouldn't have become that type of guild without standards.
But as someone who ran guilds for 15 years, I can say that it's a lot easier to keep people out of your FC/guild than to deal with the drama that usually comes with removing them after the fact. It's also the responsibility of the GM/leadership to protect what they have put a lot of time and energy into creating, and to make sure every applicant actually fits since their current membership is counting on them to not bring in problem children. You'll never know for sure, even after a 30 day trial period, but GM's will do their best to screen and filter.
As for applications and processes, I guess the effort shown to get in by the applicant is something that most GM's see as important as well. I did. Anyone who ever joins a guild has to understand just how much goes into creating, maintaining, administrating and growing a guild. It's a thankless job for the most part, where someone puts in their (GM) free time to make sure others (members) have a fun place to spend their recreational time without worry every time they log in.
There are plenty of guilds out there who do not have applications and you can just /whisper someone for an invite. But if someone wants to join a specific guild because they seem to have a lot going on, seem to be popular and really well run.. it wouldn't have become that type of guild without standards.
