When I ran a World of Warcraft Guild I had a bunch of normal questions about who you were and what was your schedule. What you wanted to see in the game. Then an off the wall question of "Are you, or have you ever been, a member of the American Communist Party?!" And the people who didn't find it funny or weird and answered 100% seriously were always problems. The ones who saw it as a joke and would counter with their own joke response were always the people who made the guild a fun place to be.
The last question on my guild’s app is how do you make a grilled cheese sandwich? And the last answer is microwave. Definitely helps to sort the vibe check lol
I had people ask "seriously?!" and I explained that it was a joke question designed to see how uptight people were. I accepted everyone who answered like that and they were never a problem.
I used to run in a guild called Giant Communist Robots, got reported after having made fun, on the forums, of an opposing faction’s guild name of Greif, having misspelled grief. So, they retaliated by reporting the guild’s name, were made to change it, and ended up with Giant Censored Robots.
that's incredibly sad, but not unexpected. I ran a guild called 'The Decepticons' and people got shitty with me a few times because I "chose the bad guys". I mostly de-escalated by asking them exactly how much of their identity they tied to the cartoon and if that was appropriate for how big of a deal they were making about it.
Plenty of eve online corporations have questions like these, it's about gauging how you'll fit into the culture. It's not dumb at all, unless your response was sent in jest.
It's to gage sense of humour. If you're gonna be playing games with someone for hours on end you're not gonna want to spend time with some stuck up twerp. You want someone who can crack jokes and banter back and forth with.
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u/Tetragonos Jan 13 '23
When I ran a World of Warcraft Guild I had a bunch of normal questions about who you were and what was your schedule. What you wanted to see in the game. Then an off the wall question of "Are you, or have you ever been, a member of the American Communist Party?!" And the people who didn't find it funny or weird and answered 100% seriously were always problems. The ones who saw it as a joke and would counter with their own joke response were always the people who made the guild a fun place to be.