There is something simple that we must keep in mind at all times; this Guild has essentially three goals:
1) Developping the tools necessary to make Ages.
2) Sharing the knowledge about these tools and how to use them.
3) Creating Ages.
These are three very different but inseparable, and the can be attained perfectly without a structure; all pushed forward separately by individuals or independent groups (although these groups might need a structure for them that's unrelated). That has successfully worked for two years now, except that all the people involved so far weren't named the GoW.
We don't really *need* a structure for that; but it will be a welcome help. What we really need a structure for is to interract with other guilds, and Cyan (and possibly the DRC), and essentially to ease things and help people wherever needed. Also other important duties (like forum moderation) don't really fall under the responsabilities of a guild, but since we are going that way we might as well harmonize everything.
But for the core activities of the guild we don't really need a structure. And as such I think that whatever structure will be in place will have little actual authority or power (OMG the P word..) over that. So, in my opinion there is no need to be scared about the potential for corruption or the amount of power people will have in their hands. Finally, as D'lanor rightfully mention we are all here on a voluntary basis, so authority will always be a very relative thing. If we see that the members of the council in place are somehow doing wrong it will be easy to put them down. And I certainly hope it'll never come to this.
Now if we start a deep debate over that structure and how it could be better, we still won't have a structure when Live Season 2 will start. Trylon and the gang are trying to put a structure together to make things go further and because the other guilds are asking for it. So let's go with it and we'll see how things evolve..
[quote=Kato]Also, I think that the idea of a "voting people," group is inherently discriminatory[/quote] Everyone who would wish to vote would be welcomed, people would just have to post their names on a thread; it would take 5 seconds. No discrimination here. It is just a way to get more precise numbers about the 'active people'. We might have 100 active forum posters, but if there are only 19 who are interested in voting, and we need 20% of voters to agree, then the system doesn't work.