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    ruinedmirage's Avatar
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    Jera Teiwaz
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    Weaver Lv 50
    To my understanding, and I could be wrong, most people on the forums click the "New Posts" button to check out what's up to date, rather than going through each individual section, subsection, and every single server forum one by one.

    I get very annoyed at all the recruitment threads because it takes up about 8 spots on the front page that could be used for more productive and ongoing conversations and improvements. Imagine one of the newer topics, for example the "toxic community" bandwagon, being broadcast across every server. When someone presses "New Posts", they see:
    "The community is TOXIC!!" (server A)
    "The community is TOXIC!!" (server B)
    "The community is TOXIC!!" (server C)
    "The community is TOXIC!!" (server D)
    "The community is TOXIC!!" (server E)
    "The community is TOXIC!!" (server F)
    "The community is TOXIC!!" (server G)

    Not only does it look bad, it's a form of spam, at least in my opinion. But I am curious, how many successful hits do recruitment threads get when they tell someone they can pay $15 to find a static group on another server (which may or may not turn out well)? I understand some groups front the payment for transfers, too, but I'm still wondering the success rate of these threads.
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    Last edited by ruinedmirage; 06-28-2014 at 08:20 AM.

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    Namasu Agepoyo
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    Quote Originally Posted by ruinedmirage View Post
    Not only does it look bad, it's a form of spam, at least in my opinion.
    Pretty much this. If people really want to look for a raid group from other servers they will go check each sub-forum for an overall perspective of what server seems active+competent anyway.
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    Rayom Osiris
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    I do agree the spam is annoying, but that is not the root of the issue i have. I want them to stop moving them back to our server entirely, there is no benefit from them being moved in such a way. Being that i have only made one thread a day for recruitment, its a far fetch from being the spam you proclaim on the "New Posts" feature as of the past few days.

    At first i thought they were moving them to deter us from putting more up because it annoys everybody on our own server when they move them all to our server's forum. We never got a warning, but i chose to lighten the load at which we put them up, only to make one a day on a different server each time. Seems pretty reasonable right? Instead i continue to see them moved daily, after a few hours. Never one warning or message why. This seems extremely unreasonable given that its the server forum's purpose, and no rule governing it otherwise.

    Quote Originally Posted by ruinedmirage View Post
    I understand some groups front the payment for transfers, too, but I'm still wondering the success rate of these threads.
    Seems we get about one person every 4 posts that are very exceptional. Our FC is trying to recruit for an end game ranked progression, and I would like to broaden its awareness since its not quite a very popular idea in this game.
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    Last edited by Rayom; 06-28-2014 at 10:45 AM. Reason: Grammar/Extra Details