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[Mimilu]

This is one of the strangest hills to die on. I agree they should have a space to advertise, but General Discussion is not the space for that - it's a space for discussion of topics, and advertisements allow only as much discussion as "cool". Until SE expands the forums to account for Data Center visits, or even until Data Center visits are, well, a thing, these should remain exactly where other advertisements like this go - to individual world forums, or off of the official forums and into spaces like reddit and dedicated FFXIV fan forums.

Personally, I don't see the problem with RP groups and venues advertising in the General Discussion forums, its pretty much the catch-all forums at this point, even having threads that should be in other forums. I've even seen people start threads about third-party add-ons and programs like parsers, shaders, and discord/voice chat and no ones batted an eyelash at those, so things outside the parameters of the game don't seem to be a taboo subject either.
It'll also break up the constant stream of repeating thread-themes. :B
(Granted, I don't have a problem with them posting in the PF either, so...)

[Iscah]

Personally, I don't see the problem with RP groups and venues advertising in the General Discussion forums, its pretty much the catch-all forums at this point

The problem is volume. Any one individual ad is fine, but it would only take a fairly small number of these ads to fill up the front page of the forum, especially if people keep bumping them so they stay visible.