I see that these new forum rules have been sprung upon the Recruiting forums, but there are a lot of holes in the rules and questions left unanswered.
For example:
What exactly counts as a bump? Is it a bump if the same player double posts, but not a bump if it's different players posting? Does *any* post at all count as a bump?
With that in mind, what about members of other factions posting in my faction's thread... does that count as a bump, or just a post? If it's just a post, how will moderators know who's in what faction? And if it counts as a bump, what's to stop Player X from going into the recruiting thread of a faction he/she doesn't like and bumping to get the thread locked?
It's great that there's some initiative to reduce spam, but is that really necessary? If we limit the amount of "spam" that occurs in recruiting threads, I think that'll just carry over to the other forums, where one isn't necessarily penalized as much for spamming. These policies don't seem to be defined that specifically.
For example:
What exactly counts as a bump? Is it a bump if the same player double posts, but not a bump if it's different players posting? Does *any* post at all count as a bump?
With that in mind, what about members of other factions posting in my faction's thread... does that count as a bump, or just a post? If it's just a post, how will moderators know who's in what faction? And if it counts as a bump, what's to stop Player X from going into the recruiting thread of a faction he/she doesn't like and bumping to get the thread locked?
It's great that there's some initiative to reduce spam, but is that really necessary? If we limit the amount of "spam" that occurs in recruiting threads, I think that'll just carry over to the other forums, where one isn't necessarily penalized as much for spamming. These policies don't seem to be defined that specifically.
