Guild Wars 2

(reposted to the more correct sub-forum)
I’m not really sure if this is the proper place to put this as I don’t believe that it’s technically a “bug”, but i do believe that it is something that needs to be taken a look at.
I both like, and dislike the current guild system. I personally like the old alliance system a little better (my opinion, w/e).
I do like that you can add your own rank structure with names and symbols which is awesome, however I think there is a major flaw with the “leader” position. I like that multiple people can be put into the “leader” slot BUT the fact that the CREATOR of the guild cannot demote or kick or even put in a vote to demote/kick another person in the “leader” position is a serious flaw.
What if hypothetically you accidentally promote somebody to “leader” who should not be there. The only thing that you can do is kindly ask them to demote themself. If they don’t want to, then it’s too bad. They can then go ahead and promote the entire guild to “leader” if they want, or just kick everybody then could would be serious issues.
Yes one could simply remake the guild, but that seems to be a waste.
And yes I speak in “what if’s” but I believe this is something that should at least be taken a look at and seriously considered by the devs. The trolling potential is outstanding.
anybody have any thoughts?

I was just about to post something about this, but it would appear you have beaten me to the punch.

Anyway I help run a guild with an unusual structure, where there are 3 people in the highest rank. I ran into a situation where someone got mistakenly promoted to the Leader rank, then refused to demote themself. I would rather not get into the specifics of the story too much but needless to say this has lead to a lot more arguments than I would like.
After some discussion my fellow guild leaders and myself came to the conclusion that a vote system, similar to how it works when you attempt to kick someone from your party (little box pops up asking for someone else in the party to agree) would be quite usual for the purposes of managing members in a diplomatic way. eg: demoting, promoting and removing people.

Now this system is not without a major flaw, since there is a danger that in larger guilds this could become something far too over political.

I will add this to my big list of guild changes https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Guild-System-Improvements/first#post542511

Glad to see I’m not the only person who has seen this to cause issues. and thanks Bio for adding it to your list. I’m hoping we can get some community support behind this and see if we can’t get a dev to read the forums every once in a while to take a look and possible do something about this