(12-06-2017, 01:03 PM)ExAtomos Wrote: I think part of the issue is the insinuation here that the FC lead(s) has to do all the work of outreach, RP interaction, and somehow convincing the individual that their group is a good place. It does need to be a balance, a meeting in the middle, where the FC leader does their part and the player reaches out to them with suggestions, ideas, and concepts that they are RPing.
As FC lead, I am only one person and can only do so much for the other players. If they won't communicate back, no matter how I try to include them, not much I can do at that point.
I have had my share of bad apples in the group and wariness from these experiences is to be expected. Therefore, yeah... I get a feel for the player first before allowing them to join the FC. What group doesn't? And obviously, this happens more with established groups like we see on Balmung than new groups with leaders that are new to leading that just want to increase membership and sort things out later. (An extreme example of this is when I was on Atomos. One of my officers invited EVERYONE on the server that had EN highlighted. This meant we got a lot of bots. I had to take away their invite power cause they wouldn't stop inviting randomly.)
Hence the 'do you have to reach out to these people? of course not.' I've been in the position of recruitment before, in a highly competitive buyer's market. I know the pain, and I know how exhausting it can become. My point wasn't that it's necessary to FC operation, it was that if any FC feels like their recruitment pool is exhausted, sending messages to people through ooc means after viewing their wiki or bio or whatever, is an option. An aggressive and time consuming option, yes, but an option nonetheless. I wouldn't have suggested it if I hadn't met fcless or unhappy/undersaturated rpers that way time and time and time again.
It was not intended as criticism or an implication that FC leads/officers aren't already working hard (not that you took it as such, I'm just not sure if maybe it was worded in such a way as to be taken that way).
