Robert The Rebuilder wrote:
Added answers from TomahnaGuy, katreeny and Lontahv; also added answers 1.a and 9.a on behalf of misterzen and Ushgarak.
katreeny: since you did pick 1.g, would you mind also answering the questions related to a Rank 5 person - questions 7 and 8 - please? That will make your answer complete.
Sorry, Robert.
7 - a. Anyone who's a guild member has a say on voting in the leader or leaders.
8 - b. (I think) - the one year option. Between the voluntary nature of it and that I suspect what's going to happen is that the leader(s) end up being the administrivia handlers, I don't think anyone's going to WANT it longer. I do think it should be possible to remove someone before the end of their term if a significant majority (say, 3/4 of members) are of the opinion that person's leadership is actively harmful to the Guild.
A bit of explanation here - a professional organization I belong to recently had its reputation dragged through the muck as a result of the careless (at best. At worst, grossly incompetent) actions of one official. We don't need anyone doing that and we need to be able to grab someone who does - regardless of that person's good intentions - and collectively sit on them until things settle. An easy example for the Guild would be if one of the leaders told Cyan how they were enabling fly mode (a hack that could lead to Cyan revoking any privileges they may have been considering and potentially shutting down age building altogether). THAT is someone who needs to be hauled back and sat on, fast.
Katreeny