User:Rapta/Disclaimer

This user is an avid contributor to the Guild Wiki builds section. It is understood that some votes may be considered offensive to your build, but remember that it is just a vote, and that is how builds will be vetted.

Section 1: General Cases
Responses to voting:
 * If you don't agree with the vote, that's fine. Feel free to comment on that page in a calm manner on how that vote may be flawed.
 * If you decide to take it too seriously and begin complaining to every user that voted unfavored on your build, that's not fine. Ranting needlessly is bad.

Build Writing:
 * Creating a build for the sake of creating a build is not good. A build has to be designed with a specific purpose in mind.
 * A build that you have found to be good for the specified class, but fails to do its job better than any other class, its not a good reason to make such a build, especially if there are much better things that class could be doing.
 * Remember, a build is built around the situation. The situation isn't build around the build. Putting up extremely conditional builds is not a smart thing to do.

This user is not:
 * A build-hater. Just because many people have written extremely poor builds, and this user has voted "unfavored" rather than "favored" on such builds, does not mean that this user dislikes builds. It just means that the quality of builds has to improve in order to get positive votes.
 * Narrow-minded. Often the case is, a person has written a build with an abstract concept in mind. Usually, all of the good builds would have been written within a specified amount of time, after the release of a campaign. There is a good reason no one has written it.
 * Inexperienced. Most of the time, it's the writer liking their build so much, they become overly defensive. Suddenly, the writer accuses the voter of being inexperienced. The fact is, anyone can look at a bar and tell how a build is used. Just because a person has not tested a build does not mean they do not know how a build works.
 * Hater. It really doesn't matter what "dawgs" you have in your guild that may be offended by an unfavored vote on your build. It also doesn't matter if you have a specific class in mind to do a specific task in a specific campaign using specific skills. Why write a build that 99% of the Guild Wars populace will never use? Why write a build if hundreds of other builds can do it better? If a build works, it's good. If it doesn't work, then it's bad.

Section 2: Specific Cases
"Invincible" Builds:
 * There are hundreds of ways a 55 or 105 build can be written. Just because the Wiki hasn't covered it yet, does not mean that it is special in any way or form.

Build Merging:
 * There is no current policy on whether a build should be merged. Simply put, there really doesn't need to be one. If there are people offended by the merge (other than the author), it should not take place. The Wiki is built around the community so people can find what they want, when they want. If a few builds look somewhat similar, it does not mean those builds should be merged.
 * The case is especially true if it is regarding a highly popular build. Builds on such levels are much better off separate, rather than cramming as much information onto one page as you can.

Unfavored Builds:
 * If the build you are writing coinsides with a build already in unfavored, it is often better to not write the build at all. Re-submitting a build is usually a waste of time and not a good way to write builds.
 * However, if you believe that the unfavored build can be revived and improved on, do not create a new build page. Go to the unfavored build and move it into build stubs, and work on the build there. It saves both time and server space.