How Do We Remove Guild Members Who Have Left?

trolloc.llane · Post by **trolloc.llane** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 5:26 pm

How do we remove individuals who are no longer in the guild and / or their character is no longer on the same server?

Dromic · Post by **Dromic** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 12:41 am

trolloc.llane wrote:How do we remove individuals who are no longer in the guild and / or their character is no longer on the same server?

Even time a census is completed it records guild changes. Then when you upload to site the database here also updates the guild change.

There is no way to remove people on server changes. The reason is the addon would have to know the user logon account name (that is something that can not be recorded). Not 100% sure if rollie has the database prune or not. I know the armory if you are not online is so many months no longer shows you (just a message not been online in a long time) If this site does not prune the database maybe that is also an option.
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Post by **Rollie** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 9:47 am

Yeah, there is no current way to do so. I have been planning on using armory data to prune characters from guilds but have not gotten it done.

uigrad · Post by **uigrad** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 10:02 am

Well, my first WoW character is listed at WarcraftRealms with a last seen date of December 2005. Another friend from that guild has a last seen date of June 2005:
http://www.warcraftrealms.com/charhistory/2654503

So, clearly there isn't any automatic pruning. I'm glad there isn't, since I want to see the history of the people that I knew in that guild. If my friend with that character wanted to let people know that they had moved to a new server, he could claim the character here, claim it on a new server, and then list the one as "moved" in his profile. That way no information is lost.

As it currently stands, to move a character out of a guild, the owner of the character would need to log on to WoW, drop guild (if he hadn't been removed already), run a census, and upload it to WR. Obviously this isn't practical if his account is terminated, so nearly every guild listed in Warcraftrealms contains names of people that have left.

There isn't any feature to manually move members from "current guild members" to "ex-guild members". If you click on your guild's name, you can add a link to your guild's website, add a short description of the guild, and record the dates your guild progression for level 60 content (Onyxia, Azuregos, Lord Kazzak, Molten Core - Ragnaros, Blackwing Lair - Nefarian, AQ - C'Thun)

If Rollie allowed warcraftrealm users to remove people from a guild, there would be no way to verify it. Someone who wanted to cause trouble could really do damage if that was allowed. If it was important, I would think Rollie would be more inclined to make an armory crawler that would query the guild name (ie http://www.wowarmory.com/guild-info.xml ... d+Name&p=1 ) and then use that for marking non-members as status unknown, or something of that sort. I don't think there is a lot of benefit to it, though since people who want the current guild roster would just use wowarmory in the first place!

trolloc.llane · Post by **trolloc.llane** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 4:10 pm

Thanks for the information...one other quick question...I thought I saw a "page" where one could "add" people to to be updated. There were text-entry blocks for maybe 6 or so names. When I first started using WarcraftRealms, I chanced on this page but am unable to locate it anymore.

Thanks again.

Post by **Rollie** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 9:32 pm

Hrm... I am not sure what you're thinking of as there is no such area on the site.

uigrad · Post by **uigrad** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 11:50 am

trolloc.llane wrote:Thanks for the information...one other quick question...I thought I saw a "page" where one could "add" people to to be updated. There were text-entry blocks for maybe 6 or so names. When I first started using WarcraftRealms, I chanced on this page but am unable to locate it anymore.

Thanks again.

You're probably thinking of other sites. I've seen quite a few that let you submit names, and then their armory clawler will pick up data over the next day. For example:

http://wowmetrics.com
Antiarc's WoW Armory Tools ( http://wow.tachyonsix.com - now defunct)
http://wowjutsu.com
http://armorylite.com
http://gankbang.com
http://mywowarmory.com
http;//armoryclone.com

The first one on that list is likely the one you were thinking of. I think it originally had blanks for 3 or 4 names, although now it is just one. The site doesn't seem to work anymore either. All the data there is pre-WotLK.

Hybuir · Post by **Hybuir** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 10:59 am

I've always been a WCR fan so I didn't know. As for removing guild members, I'd think that having a method of getting *only* the guild tab and doing a reverse comparison (server to upload) would be efficient, however flawed to data manipulation.

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