Maybe its my guild; a day-one guild with a good number of people that have been raiding for a long time.. Maybe its the environment; most people do get along, and when they don’t the management work hard to smooth out the wrinkles where they can.. Ours (IMO) is a steady guild, not immune to poaching, but fairly resistant to it..

Granted, we’ve had our fair share of drama.. We’ve lost people because we weren’t “hardcore enough” (those people no longer play, imagine that).. We’ve lost people to drama.. We’ve lost people because we’re too hardcore.. We’ve lost people due to attrition (40-man vs 25 man) and we’ve lost people to RL..

But the majority of our player base is fairly constant.. We have fun more often than not, and that is probably what makes us “poaching” resistant.. If someone wants to leave for better or greener pastures, let ’em; there’s always people in the wings that are there to take their place..

But the environment has more to do with resisting “poaching” than hiding DKP or attendance.. If they’re succeptable to “poaching” hiding DKP isn’t gonna slow that down much..

I suppose if you see the raiding game as competition this can be more of an issue..

Hey look, OtherGuild#4 has 7 level 70 mages and only 3 of them have SSC gear…

Don’t we need a mage?

i disagree that you should lock up the recruiting board. not all guilds use a forum to recruit people, but those who do – and leave them out for public consumption – make me happy. i have a list of “rival” guilds’ recruiting boards that i check regularly. i see who is out there looking for a guild (potential recruits!), i see if any of my members are scouting other guilds, and if someone applies to our guild i can see if they have applied elsewhere and gather any extra info that they filled out in other guilds’ app templates.

our dkp isn’t locked up either. sometimes people who aren’t in or are no longer in the guild have earned dkp with us. i don’t want to keep them from being able to see it, nor do i want to employ some complicated pw system where i have to keep track of who has/doesn’t have access.
we never raid with more than one or two non-guildies (if any), so your scenario doesn’t apply. i can’t really think of any reason to hide our dkp from the public. i mean, who really cares?

Watching other guild’s drama is so much fun.

I’ve gotta get our guild to lock down some of our site, I definitly don’t want our Guildwhohatesyourguild (Yes! We have one too…) trying to snag our precious priestys.