Virus opened this issue on Sep 21, 2001 ยท 221 posts
Mehndi posted Fri, 21 September 2001 at 3:58 PM
Heya Cin, to answer a few of your questions :) Yes, under the current plan, ANYONE could submit his work for voluntary testing. Membership is not needed for that. However, where membership does come into play is in having enough manpower to manage to do testing of more than a few things at a time, since we would probably primarily be turning to in house testers/members to ask them to volunteer to pitch in on this effort. Invitation Only? Why NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! I would NEVER be involved in anything like that, ever ever ever. The criteria for joining has not yet been totally worked out. Alot of it has to do again with "quality of work" and being committed to guild ethics of quality in all one does. In the beginning (sounds like the bible almost... heh), of course, to try to find some folks to even join, we are going to have to send out some invitations, along the lines of, "Dear Traveller. We congratulate you for all you do for the community to give back, and to uphold the HIGHEST of quality standards in your own work while doing so. We would like to invite you to join us in a new guild being formed called The Free Market Guild. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask them!" etc :) Daio, to try to answer you... the answer is not such good news. Yes, some of us have recognizable styles. It cannot be helped at all. For example, as my granny would have said, "I would know Thorne's hide in a tannery." ;) So... in this case, one must be a calm ethical and good hearted professional, and go forward, chin up, and test with similar ethics to the way doctors treat patients, and firement treat those they rescue. You just do not allow yourself to fall to temptation. Ethics... ethics will be a part of this effort. Being committed to good sound fair guild ethics. Now... if something were submitted and then it was found that it had so many problems that in good conscience one could not go forward with giving it the seal, this is the procedure I would try to put forward to you all. First a letter trying to explain to the person why it was rejected, the areas it did not meet guidelines would be sent out, with suggestions on how to actually go about fixing these problems, so they can then fix it and resubmit :) Having readily availalbe to all public tutorials we can refer the person to will help alot there I am hoping. Secondly, we go back to those doctors ethics. You shut your mouth, and you keep your mouth shut. It is not our place to humiliate a soul. It is a private matter always. No one need ever know.