SHARED TOPIC: Most outrageous guild applications

This week’s Shared Topic comes from Cathmor of Eye for an Eye and asks authors to share their most humorous, interesting, or off-the-wall guild applications. In his own words:

Whether you’re a guild officer or a grunt, a GM or a rank-and-file, if your guild accepts applications for membership you’ve probably seen a few of them. Oftentimes guilds will have their applications posted in a public forum for all to see; other guilds will keep the applications in an officer-only forum. However, even when the apps are kept private, funny ones are re-posted for the rest of the guild to get a chuckle. Sometimes it’s an application from a raid boss (I’m Ragnaros and I’d like to join <Raid Guild>!), sometimes it’s an inanimate object or food item, and other times it’s just a raider with a great sense of humor.

What’s the funniest one you’ve seen? If it’s contrived, what made it so funny? Give background if necessary.

Contributions so far include:

You can read more and share your own at the original post on Blog Azeroth!

Downtime Round-up: 8-5-08

dt_roundup Is it that time again! That’s right boys and girls, it is roundup time! We are excited to have Nightravyn from NE L4Mobs, PST! joining us as our Twisted Blog next episode. If there are any burning questions you would like to ask her, feel free to send them in! Here are a few posts you may have missed!

Hay to Munch on:

  • An Exercise in Anti-stun locking: Josh from Eye for an Eye offers some advice for a Ret Pally against a rogue.
  • Assigning Healing Strategy: Matt from World of Matticus offers a great series for heal leads part 2 of 5.
  • Help Auctioneer! Gnomer from Armaggedon’s Coming calls for help on the behalf of Auctioneer’s programmers. They need your logs! Go and help out! Check Gnomer’s post for details.
  • How to Get the Most Out of PVE Combat Swords. Andy from A Rogue’s Eye view offers some tips on how to get the most of your pve combat spec.
  • Shaman Wiki. You guys may be the least played class in WoW, but that doesn’t mean you are second class citizens! Game Dame has created a wiki for all things Shammish and welcome all shammys and their totems. Go forth!
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Episode 11-P.T. Diddy

PTDDruidclip This week we have P. T. Diddy himself, the uber master of posts, Part Time Druid. Some great topics, a tip, listener mail and Fim wants to know if you feel “lucky.”

— Continue reading Episode 11-P.T. Diddy —

Netherhood Welcome Wagon – DruidChick of Drewedblog

Welcome DruidChick of Drewedblog to the Blogging Netherhood.

DruidChick is a 25 year old living in NYC. When she’s not playing WoW or writing about WoW she’s working a desk job with a periods of extreme busy and extreme boredom. (That sounds about like my cube days too). She’s also dating “golf dude” who is occasionally the topic of blog conversation.

The blog is unabashedly punny. Corny jokes litter most entries and make me groan and giggle at the same time. (Regular punsters will note that this is the highest praise that can be given to your puns.) Once you’ve gotten past the puns and corny jokes, you’ll find the pictures. DruidChick’s lastest post is a Calvin and Hobbes inspired illustration that I adore. She’s also included an illustration of her druid and pet peanut. I found myself first drawn to her blog when I found her describing a raiding personality we all know, the opinionated loudmouth, and wondering what exactly she could/should do about this player. Since then it’s been fun to follow her through archetypes of players we all know and love (or don’t love so much) as she and her guild progress through SSC/TK.

So, welcome to the blog-o-sphere DruidChick. May your readers be numerous and your typos be few.

Every Friday, the Twisted Nether Team has provided me (Auzara of Chick GM) with an opportunity to highlight a new blogger and welcome them to our blog-o-sphere. If you have a wonderful new blog I may have missed, please drop me a line at ChickGM at gmail dot com with a title of Welcome Wagon. I can’t promise to highlight them all but I’ll certainly try.

Blog Tipping – best posts

Hello Thursday TNB Readers!

Another Statistics blogger tip for you this week (aren’t statistics fun!) – this time having to do with your best posts.

One of the things you can look at when you’re reading through your stats are your Entry Pages – these are the pages that people either typed into their browser, bookmarked, or clicked a link to directly. Obviously the #1 entry page will be your blog homepage, but other entry pages will give you an idea of what people are finding interesting about your blog.

Another thing to look at are your google searches, though, much like your entry pages, these can contain weird flukes and sometimes provide amusement.

What’s the point of looking through this kind of stuff? Well, one of the things that will keep people coming back to your blog is how accessible the information is. If you know that the majority of your readers keep coming back because of your blacksmithing tips, you might consider adding a widget or blogroll section of “All Star Posts” – things that have proven popular over time.

The other kind of “best posts” are the ones that you like best from your blog – don’t be afraid to include those as well! These are things that you either know you did a fantastic job writing, or like to go back and re-read, or are particularly proud of. They’re the “condensed” version of your blog.

Sometimes your favorite posts and your readers favorite posts will line up – and sometimes they won’t. That’s ok, both you and your readers make up important parts of your blog!

Every Thursday, one of the Annas from Too Many Annas stops by with a mid-week blogger tip. If you have questions or suggestions for future tips, email Anna ( tips at twistednether dot net ) with a message titled “Blog Tipping”.