Quote Originally Posted by van_arn View Post
It can, but the issue at hand is how a small group of creeps (public advertising explicit rp) is finding safe harbor in a larger group. The bad apple analogy isn't far off; they're the bad apples spreading their rot to the rest of the RP community. Since they're not getting removed from the barrel, it no longer really matters which individual apple is rotten; the whole barrel might need to be tossed out.
The thing is this will not work unless SE explicitly ban all forms of open erp advertisement. If these people are only blocked from using PF they'll just use something else feeling safe knowing they can't get banned for it. Sure other forms of advertisement aren't as far reaching as PF, but go to Limsa in peak hours on the weekend...so many potential customers!

If SE banned open advertisement of erp in any public channel, then we could still have other rpers use PF without having to endure the prostitute listings, as long as players report them of course. If people find out that they could get in real trouble if they're caught that will certainly be enough of a deterrent for many players.

There is no need to sweep all rpers and toss them in the same box when it's possible to target the actual problem.

And lets say SE do ban all rp advertisements from PF, well we would still have to hope they would get reported which is the exact same as hoping erp advertisements would get reported...so I see little point in banning all rp listings if the method of dealing with only erp would be the same. No need to punish everyone.