Party Finder isn't supposed to be used like this. (I guess...)

[chocomaid]

I see no problems with it, there are no rules stating that Party Finder is solely for doing dungeons. It is there for people to group together and find ways to interact together without the need of an almighty RNG based system that is Duty finder. The crafter is simply using resources that is available to him, he is actually making effort to be heard in a way.

The only thing I got from this is you don't like a long list.

I see it often and it doesn't bother me one bit, I simply scroll down and continue to play.

[Welsper59]

I see no problems with it, there are no rules stating that Party Finder is solely for doing dungeons. It is there for people to group together and find ways to interact together without the need of an almighty RNG based system that is Duty finder. The crafter is simply using resources that is available to him, he is actually making effort to be heard in a way.

The only thing I got from this is you don't like a long list.

I see it often and it doesn't bother me one bit, I simply scroll down and continue to play.

I think SE figured people would understand that the name itself is implication enough of the use. There really shouldn't be a need for them to explicitly say what something called "Party Finder" is meant for, especially when you consider the options for activities you have available to select. Advertisement of services for things that are not part of the feature itself is misuse, harmless or not. At that point, it becomes a question of how abused (and disruptive) it becomes to determine whether or not GMs/SE need to step in. Imagine RMT spamming the party finder lol. They'd simply be using the resources available to them afterall. Yeah, you could filter, but I don't think anyone wants things to get to that point. A few people advertising things isn't a problem at all, and I doubt SE will do anything. But if it gets out of hand... you can bet that they'll have to step in. I doubt legit players would end up getting things to that point though.

[darkstarpoet1]

I think SE figured people would understand that the name itself is implication enough of the use. There really shouldn't be a need for them to explicitly say what something called "Party Finder" is meant for, especially when you consider the options for activities you have available to select. Advertisement of services for things that are not part of the feature itself is misuse, harmless or not. At that point, it becomes a question of how abused (and disruptive) it becomes to determine whether or not GMs/SE need to step in. Imagine RMT spamming the party finder lol. They'd simply be using the resources available to them afterall. Yeah, you could filter, but I don't think anyone wants things to get to that point. A few people advertising things isn't a problem at all, and I doubt SE will do anything. But if it gets out of hand... you can bet that they'll have to step in. I doubt legit players would end up getting things to that point though.

completely ignorant to compare the 2. 1 is a player actually playing the game and going about doing things the right way and the other is breaking tos selling gil for real money. one is a bannable offense and the other is not.

rmts are not using it
it is not an issue

agreed completely.

also add in that if rmt's were using it then it would be bannable in the first place as even them sending tells is bannable because rmt's are against the tos. it's not even worth it to compare the 2 since one is legit and the other isn't.