Originally Posted by
Tauftamir
@alturic
The points you commented on were rhetorical questions. I simply wanted to illustrate why a 10 man raid would not prefer to have exactly 10 people.
The reasons may be obvious to you or I, but some of the responses in the thread suggest the reasons might not be obvious to other posters.
@Zandalis
You don't talk about expectations of attendance on wowprogress, or on the "about us" page, or the application form of your website.
The only reference is to timekeeping is:
"4) You will be on time for all raids."
If you value people for both social reasons and raiding reasons, and a core philosophy of the guild is that you are flexible enough that people can miss a raid if they want to go hiking in the mountains for the weekend, or if an emergency comes up, you should tell people that, it should be on your guild page.
The answer to your OP then simply becomes that you should not recruit anyone who wants a "core spot" or requests to be in every raid because what they want to get out of raiding is already different to the behaviour and attitude of your guild.
Do you think a person like this is likely to understand why they, as a 100% attender, have to sit for someone who will miss a raid to go hiking, simply because you've known them since TBC? You would effectively be creating a problem just by recruiting them.
If your guild is flexible about attendance, and you believe that to be a good thing, this should be a unique selling point as to why someone in the same position as your raiders would want to apply to your guild.
If this was clear at the outside, you probably wouldn't get the kind of people who want a "core spot" applying in the first place.
TLDR: You should be trying to attract people who have a similar attitude to the game as you and your existing raiders if you want them to be a good social fit for the team. Don't bother with people who want something different.
PS: some of your posts seem quite aggressive. Just because someone else is prepared to enforce 100% attendance, doesn't mean they are living in a "bubble" and can't appreciate how the "real world" works. It's a decision they've made for their Guild. That doesn't make it wrong, it just makes the circumstances different.