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Guild Affiliation and Banners

If you would like to take a look at our current banners, made by us and our cool members, follow this link.

As for animated banners, if you'd like more information, please click here.

If you wish to affiliate your own guild with Why Not, as many guilds have (see homepage), then there's just a couple simple steps.

PM zphal_girl87 (the captainess) with your request to affiliate with Why Not, and provide a banner and a link to your guild. I will check it out and approve it to make sure its a guild we are willing to support (basically anything that doesn't violate ToS), then send you a response PM with Why Not's guild banner. Place Why Not's banner and link in your guild's homepage, and I'll put yours on Why Not's homepage. This both signals that we are affiliates, and will get more members to traffic your guild.

New Restrictions on Affiliation:
To become an affiliate, you must have either at least 1000 members in your guild, or have at least 10,000 posts. It is unfortunate this restriction has to be instated, but the swelling number of guilds has made this a must. There have been too many lazy captains asking only because they hope being on the home page will automatically make them popular. At Why Not we respect active effort, so for now we will "reward" only these. Again, my apologies to the respectable owners of smaller guilds.

If you are Not Qualified for Affiliation:
You still have an option to benefit from Why Not? No matter your guild's size or post count, you can become a Guild Subsidiary. This just means we advertise your guild in an Announcement thread in our SOA. While it does not provide the same kind of visibility as the homepage, it should still help. Please go to this thread to get more information. smile

Please also note that clans are not guilds, and therefore are not qualified for affiliation or subsidiary status. Thank you.

How to Become Crew:

There are three steps, put briefly, activity, friendliness, and respect. A further breakdown of these necessary steps:

1. Activity. You have to have been in the guild for at least a few months, and/or have gotten to know the current crew and members well. You must be a "regular" or someone who commonly posts or chats with the current members and enjoys hanging around the Why Not atmosphere. Usually one should have at least 1000 posts before they will be likely to receive a promotion. The more posts, the better.

2. Friendliness. You have to be nice, as well as helpful and courteous to the current members and crew. You will "score points" by doing things like welcoming new members, helping answer questions about the guild, and being cool to others. If you're a fun person to be around and people like you, you're more likely to become crew.

3. Respect. This is perhaps the hardest step, but one of the most vital. You must have the proper Why Not attitude. This includes the friendliness and activity, but goes a step further. You have to have proven, through your actions, that you care about the guild as a community, as well as the individual people inside it. You must show a desire to see Why Not furthered as a great place for people to join, chat, and hang out, and must work to try and accomplish the goals that will help the guild grow and flourish- not just in size or greatness, but in attitude and justice as well.


A few helpful hints:

*Don't ask to be crew. It won't happen.
*Don't go trying to prove or point out you've "successfully" completed the three necessary steps. We're crew, and we're watching everyone. We'll know if you're truly ready or prepared enough to become crew.
*If you think the three steps aren't appropriate, too bad.
*No, we don't care how much gold you may or may not have. We're capable of making our own gold and we would NEVER accept any sort of bribe. This guild means way too much to me and everyone else.
*We won't make you crew in our guild if you try to make us crew in yours.

Where to First?

Obviously if you're new, it might be a little intimidating or even confusing as to where you're at in the guild. First off, I'm going to say, don't sweat it. Even if you feel a little lost now, if you just check a few things out, you'll start to know you're way around the place pretty well. Next thing you know, you'll be helping other newbies to the guild around!

But in case you don't know what to do first, here's a few things I might suggest!

"Why Not" Introduce Yourself? ^_^ - This main forum thread is a place for new members to Why Not to post their first hellos. Tell us a little about yourself, or just say hi. Also you're totally welcome to post a new message in the main forum saying you're new. We'll happily welcome you!

"Why Not" Post Your Pics? - Not everyone likes to post pictures of themself, but this is a pretty popular thread. Show off the real you, or check out others too!

"Why Not" post your Birthday? - This is a fun one too. Post your birthday and we'll add you to our big Why Not birthday list. It's literally huge. See who else shares your birthday!

"YCQ" Your Cool Quests Subforum - This is one of Why Not's more popular subforums. Go ahead and create a new thread with your quest, or check out other people's cool quests.

Why Not Try and Type your Username with Your Elbows? - This thread is sooo much fun. It's just what it says it is. Try typing your username with your elbows and see how good- or bad- you can do. Make sure to laugh at the others attempts too, it's always fun to laugh!

"Why Not" Rate the avi above you!!! - A fun place to get a quick rating on your current avi and rate others too! Fast paced, and growing strong.

In the Arena? POST HERE and Get Votes! biggrin - If you've currently got an entry in the Arena, you can go ahead and post a link to it here and get some votes from members.