The Tribe

We expect that all Tribe members will possess the following traits while playing characters with membership in the guild. Rightly or wrongly, your actions toward all others while wearing The Tribe's guild tag will reflect on the guild as a whole and we expect members to be sensitive to that fact. Not following the letter or the spirit of these behavioral guidelines can be grounds for disciplinary action, up to and including dismissal.

• Be fun. Be the kind of person who not only participates in good-natured silliness and playing around, but also the kind of person who knows when it's gone on too long or has started to become mean-spirited.
• Be friends. Appreciate your guildmates and remember that they are here because they believe in these principles too. Enjoy their successes as if they were your own and help them recover from their defeats.
• Be appropriate. In a guild with members from their teens to their fifties, you're going to have to moderate your language and subject matter a bit. Try to keep guild chat, say, and emotes PG-13 and use your best discretion in whisper/party/raid/voice chat.
• Be respectful. Treat others as you would want to be treated. Don't insult other people, especially guildmates, and especially not in public. If other people ask you to moderate your behavior in guild/party/raid/voice chat, then please comply and work out your issues later, if necessary. Be aware of the potential impact of your words and actions before you commit to them.
• Be trusting and trustworthy. Assume that if a guildmate upsets you, then he/she didn't do it on purpose and there was a misunderstanding. Assume that your guildmates are being truthful in all of their dealings with you, and be truthful in all of your dealings with guildmates.
• Be resourceful. Feel free to ask your guildmates for information or assistance, but don't neglect the other tools and resources (web sites, LFG channel, etc.) that you have at your disposal.
• Be gracious. Accept help (in any form) graciously. Accept a lack of assistance from guildmates just as graciously, no matter what the reason.
• Be generous. When you get a great item, the decision to keep it, sell it, or give it to a guildmate should be a difficult one. While you're not required to give any item away for free, many Tribe members have given away BoE epics and passed on valuable upgrades anyway, solely for the betterment of their teammates. That is the true spirit of The Tribe.
• Be open. Visit the Tribe forums often (at least weekly) and participate openly in guild chat. Communicate with your fellow guildmates.
• Be constructive. If you have an issue with the guild or a guild member, then don't bottle it up or complain endlessly about it - contact the Chief or a Chieftain for assistance, and be prepared to offer potential solutions to whatever problem you're experiencing.
• Be tolerant. The Tribe has lots of different kinds of people in it. Malicious or degrading comments about people's race, religion, gender, etc. have no place in The Tribe.
• Be legitimate. Don't support the professional farmers by buying money, items, or characters with real currency. Don't use or do anything that you know for sure is an exploit or is in violation of Blizzard's Terms of Service.