Quote Originally Posted by VoidsentStatus View Post
Yes and no. Not every advertiser is doing it on purpose but some definitely are. A good chunk of higher venue management are advertisement optimizers because it directly impacts having consistent incoming traffic to the venue as opposed to spikes that fade away because people leave at various times. Things that I did personally or knew that other people did in terms of optimizing/competition (some of these are considered bad by the community but still done by some parties):

- Yell/Say and Shout chat advertisement message to bypass people who have Shout chat disabled
On that last one, I have to yield and say it is frankly annoying. Especially when in my Tell(Whisper) channel.