If you have a small group of people in charge of a larger group of people, this denotes certain responsibilities.

If the officers are in charge of the raid, because they've been in the guild for a really long time, that's...fine? Well, not really. But whatever. It's cool, you're the officers, good job on your positions. Know what that means? You need to do shit properly.

Today we had a distribution system introduced to the rest of the raid team at the last minute. This system was designed months ago. This system was deeply flawed.

I do not need to go into the several serious issues that the system had. It's not the point.

The point is that if you designed the system months ago, [i]maybe you should have told everyone how it worked months ago[/i].

This would have given people the opportunity to 1) Know how it works and plan their affairs accordingly - it's not fair to deny the mount to people who are routinely a couple of minutes late when it's not their fault and they were unaware it would have any effect whatsoever, since we've [i]never[/i] been ready to pull on the dot at 20.00 - and 2) More importantly, people would have had the opportunity to bring up issues they had with the system.

I said today in the raid that I was extremely unhappy with the distribution system chosen, and I still am. You cannot say that it has been decided a long time ago if I never had the opportunity to object a long time ago either. Why should I give a shit that you chose it two months ago when you never told me about it? As far as I'm concerned you chose it now.

This is not about the mount. This is not about the system of distribution of the mount, which I profoundly disagree with. If we had voted as a guild to use a system based on attendance, which might have happened, and then voted to use this stupid system, which would never have happened, then I would have been unhappy, but oh well, democracy. Why is this a dictatorship? Why do the officers get to make all the decisions behind closed doors with no scrutiny?

I apologise if it sounds like I'm overstating the importance of what's been happening, and perhaps I am. At the end of the day we're talking about a game here, not a system of government. But within the parameters of the game, get your shit together.

If I am correct, then the other officers were never made aware of how the system worked until the end. If they had been I am confident that they would have put a stop to it - who could sign off on such a stupid way of doing things? (For a detailed analysis of why it's a bad system, see my other post).

If you are making a system, and for some reason you insist on not showing it to anyone else, you had better make damned sure it's a good system. I don't trust you to do that. I'm not sure I trusted you to do that before this, but I certainly don't now. So let's have some fucking transparency here.

As a side-note, I'm pissed off that I've been often told over the course of my stay in Overrated that it's "not my job" to do something. Today I was told that it's "not my job to defend people." Fuck off. If it's the officer's job to tell you not to be a prick, they're not doing it properly and maybe we should appoint an Officer Of Telling Misty To Stop Being A Prick; but it's not their job. Stop being a prick.

If I'm told "the officers decided this months ago, this is what we're going with", then I feel like my opinion doesn't matter. Personally I think we ought to have voted as a raid why kind of system of distribution we were using, Even if it's going to be an officers-only decision, because they're so much more qualified than the rest of us to decide what's for the best than all of us, our opinions deserve to be heard, don't they?