Setting Limits

At what point do you draw the boundaries for what you will do for your guild? Honestly, I really don’t have a problem saying no to my guild mates. If I have a limited amount of time, I tell them so. If I am not feeling well and only have enough brain capacity to do something mindless like mine a zone, I tell them that, too. If I don’t have the patience to deal with them because it’s all been used up by my students, they hear that, too.

However, when it comes to the guild site, I swear it seems like I will jump through rings of fire to get stuff done. This week I did the following despite being on a WoW vacation:

1. Created/approved new accounts on the guild site for new members
2. Added mouseover tooltips to the guild site
3. Added EQDKP to the guild site

The first one, I always do. It’s part of my routine to come home, check e-mail, and check the site. The tooltips were a relatively quick install. One of the officers requested it because they wanted to link items received from the raids run last week. (They’re doing a Loot Council, which is an entirely different post that I may one day write.)

The last thing I did was add EQDKP to the site. That was at the behest of my guild leader. Since I wasn’t familiar with that, I had to do some research and add it to the site. Not a problem.

What I do have a problem with is people wanting things added to the site but yet they don’t take their own time to research it. Sure, a part of that is because they don’t understand the coding or how it’s implemented. Honestly, sometimes I don’t understand it either, but I’ll slog through it to find out how it works.

My other irritation is that people don’t seem to realize that everything that I add to the site takes time away from other things I could be doing (playing WoW, making sigs, reading, etc.). It’s evident they don’t realize that because I’ll get whispers about site issues while in Karazhan. Sure, we’ve got Kara on farm, but when someone is raiding, that’s not the time to ask in-depth questions about something that would need to be looked up on the secondary monitor.

Last, I don’t want to implement something on the site for someone then have to teach that same person. If he or she wants it added, I’ll do it, but don’t expect me to hold his or her hand along the way.

I guess I just need to set limits when it comes to the site. I will probably end up telling people that they can ask, but the answer may be a resounding no.