As I know that people don't like to read essays and the issue should be well known already, here's my question/suggestion right away:
Does the "Find a crew!" section need an additional anti-spam rule and/or a rule that alliance memberships applications need to be done on the alliance website/discord rather than on the SoT forum?
The problem in a nutshell, for all who're unaware:
(Everyone else might stop reading here as the only change suggestions were all made above )
Some alliances get bumped to the top of that section over months and even years so far because...
- ...membership applications are specifically requested by the OP to be made within the same post instead of the alliance website/discord.
- ...of repeated and constant ad-bot like comments from members that only contain single phrases like "omg, dis alliance so good!!"
- ...of several unnecessary double or even quadruple comment postings (instead of just editing the post) by both the OP and alliance members.
- ...of OP announcements/updates that basically only mirror the information of his/her initial post of page 1 and don't tell you anything new.
- ...any other lesser relevant comment imaginable that's seen as necessary to bump the thread once again over one of another alliance that's also doing the things as mentioned above. Nice runaway effect here.
As a result of this, it's always the same few alliances that are always on top while other alliances' posts with a less, let's just say "questionable", approach or those of single guys that just want to find a little crew are getting buried pretty quickly.
Do you see this as a problem as well?