Advertising other servers on RS5

[Caesar.]

Hyuga we know you wanna be admin just don't be b!tch.

[Hyuga.]

Hyuga we know you wanna be admin just don't be b!tch.

I'm happy with my current position.
I'm not being a bad girl, as you say. I'm trying to protect certain players from unnecessary bans.

[Devin]

Hyuga we know you wanna be admin just don't be b!tch.

Do I smell jealousy or someone having a hard time sitting down as their rear end is still red?

[Zaila]

Hyuga we know you wanna be admin just don't be b!tch.

If i see one more message like this from you, you will loose your privilegies to post in this forum.

[Kirgiz]

If we would allow players to do it, it would bite us in the ass in the long run and cause even more problems.

Let me make something clear here before there is rumours starting spreading about all this.

We have nothing against players playing on other servers. We have nothing against other servers (unless a server is used for malicious reasons). You can see it as a competition and we in fact respect other servers for what they have been able to achieve. We do not think we're the best and flawless since there is always room to improve on several areas and we're always working on improving ourself.

But what we have against is players using any Argonath related service to try to gain players for their own server. In example, sending a PM to the players and say 'Come on <ip> and get admin rights and 1 million dollar!'. Argonath has worked hard on it's way up to success without using other servers to advertise on. After all the hard work put into the server and all the hard work that is currently put into the server, we do not tolerate players trying to use it against us to get players on a server that will close down within a week or 2 again.

Please answer, yes or no.

Bringing up a name of another server, for example, during a discussion, is advertisement?

Example

Player1 (X): I, for instance, cannot really understand why people play on BengonathRPG than on ArgonathRPG? I mean, just look at their scripts

Player1 (X): They have that funny script on BengonathRPG where you type /shit and it launches you into the air and blow up!

[[WS]Jacob]

There's a quite simple solution around it like Hyuga has mentioned. Another example would be to have a 'codeword' in replace of the server name.

[Pingster]

Why not just avoid discussing other servers whatsoever? You ensure there's no grey area that can get you banned. Whatever the case, you can make it seem like that you're either badmouthing a server or indirectly advertising it. Just don't do it, simple as that.

[Ted]

EDIT: I also find it ridicilous that mentioning a server name leads to a permanent ban in a PM of all places. That's way to quick to write someone off.

What do you mean by "in a PM of all places"? The mode of chat doesn't matter the intention does.

[Leon.]

EDIT: I also find it ridicilous that mentioning a server name leads to a permanent ban in a PM of all places. That's way to quick to write someone off.

Well, the user was permanently denied due to a variety of past offenses and the content of his "unban request," if my memory serves me well. But even so, indeed, it was way too quick to write them off...

What do you mean by "in a PM of all places"? The mode of chat doesn't matter the intention does.

I believe what he means by that is since it was through PM and not on public chat, the server wasn't necessarily "advertised" - in the same way that PMing someone "BillyBob1 is a scammer" would be referred to as simple shit-talking, while going around saying it on the forums and on the public chat would be a blatant attempt at ruining the player's reputation.

[Kessu]

Just to give my point of view on how 'advertisment' has been dealt with for as long as I can remember argonath (hello 2008)

Any bad mouthing towards other servers isn't allowed. As isn't praising them for obvious reasons.
Thus mentioning a server's name can and in 99% of the cases is seen as a rulebreak since it automatically gives other players a place to check (in other words, you just advertised the server to someone)

Short version; mentioning a name of the server is (in 99.99% of the cases) a rulebreak and admins will deal with it.

What chatmode you're using doesn't matter one bit, if you want to talk about servers not related to Argonath you do it elsewhere, in a non-Argonath related chatting place.

[Ted]

Just to give my point of view on how 'advertisment' has been dealt with for as long as I can remember argonath (hello 2008)

Any bad mouthing towards other servers isn't allowed. As isn't praising them for obvious reasons.
Thus mentioning a server's name can and in 99% of the cases is seen as a rulebreak since it automatically gives other players a place to check (in other words, you just advertised the server to someone)

Short version; mentioning a name of the server is (in 99.99% of the cases) a rulebreak and admins will deal with it.

What chatmode you're using doesn't matter one bit, if you want to talk about servers not related to Argonath you do it elsewhere, in a non-Argonath related chatting place.

This is it summarised.

[Devin]

Precisely as Kessu has posted, there's no need for one to mention another servers name, whether that be talking trash about the server or talking positively about the server.

If you for some strange reason have to talk to them about this other server/community do it outside of the Argonath domains.

[Matt Murdock]

I cannot believe even this thread which should be BASIC knowledge for anyone has 3 pages of discussion going on.

Things people do to post hunt these days. -_-

[Petarda]

If you for some strange reason have to talk to them about this other server/community do it outside of the Argonath domains.

One guy got banned for advertising his server to Argonath players via Facebook or Skype.

[Aiden.]

One guy got banned for advertising his server to Argonath players via Facebook or Skype.

Can you tell us his name ?