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Honestly, consider the source. Let's not try to defend a tool that you freely admit is without logic.

At the end of the day, I could have equal success with the Pin the Tail method. Really not worth arguing about, its irrelevant. We'll not get another bump from me.

Verdan, my guess is you won't have any success at all if you didn't even at least think about what you want from a guild.

Playing "pin the tail" as you call it will have many people ending up in guilds they will readily leave once their in-game desires are met. A true guild goes beyond the game, it must to have survivability. Guilds that are just about dominating in-game content are doomed to failure in the long run. There must be something first that establishes the guild beyond a game, which then uses the game to express it's interests.

I for one would think a quiz of sorts helps people to find what they are truly looking for in a guild, and help to find a guild that also suits their style of play. Nothing can truly help a person find a guild but their own motivation. That motivation is what drives them to join a guild. This quiz can help them to find a guild that builds upon that motivation.

Nobody is forcing anyone to take this quiz, why has it become such a troll-fest?

Because the MMO world is filled with trolls and people that like to belittle every single thing every person says or does to make themselves feel better.

So three MMO players were walking across a bridge when it exploded and a troll jumped up before them.

"Who / what the **** are you!!??" they exclaimed in terror.

"I am gralbar the troll! I have a wampa for an avatar, like most trolls!" it shouted back.

"Are you going to eat us!?" they stammered, tears running down their faces.

"Of course not you noobs! I am merely going to whine ***** and complain about everything I can, pretend to be a tough guy when I am 12 and can barely use proper punctuation, and then kick rabbits for fun afterwards when I have destroyed your well intentioned threads!"

The three MMO players just stared in disbelief that this was the troll that attacked them this day. Later on they sat around a fire eating troll steak, luckily for them like all MMO trolls, it's bark was worse than its bite.

Sorry, it seems like your post is attempting to be thoughtful, but its all wrong.

* I know very well what I want from a guild.

* Already said, there were at least a dozen substantial deal-breakers in the "identified" guild, which indicates the survey and the guild didn't have good criteria to match up in the so-called process (clarity, fleshed out, consensus, alignment)

* The author himself states there's no science to this nonsense, its just nonsense

* The very idea of such a tool is nonsense given (already said) that guilds don't really flesh out what they're about (if they did, players like me could match up with good matches using good criteria - as players like me know very well what we are looking for, but there's no matching clarity for criteria defined on the Guilds' side to align to - mostly just shallow rules and codes)

When someone points out that a tool is not a tool, and states specific reasons for it, if you choose to call that trolling, that's your issue, not mine. Something that has no logic/science is no better a tool than random luck (pin the tail.) Using random selection, some will say great things, others like me will get a guild assigned and say, "that's completely nonsense." The very nature of random.

For a suggestion that's really constructive, rather than a silly survey working without logic and a limited selection of guilds, do the old fashioned way, that's the best we have available today... do research of recruiting posts and guild's websites, right!? Even then, because they're so ill defined about what they're about as a Guild, its still a ##ap shoot, but its the best we can do.