- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: MCs Brother
It's so obvious that it was an attempt at recruitment. You might as well have renamed that thread 'Achronos help us please and get our group alot of attention in the process!'. You guys already tried making regular recruitment threads that day before you posted here and they either got l ocked for being in the wrong forum or ignored. Think about it. What could be better for attracting attention than 3 threads in The Septagon and a thread in the Halo 3 Forum saying that your group had been 'hacked' or 'taken over'. It's definitely the most inventive advertising I've ever seen.
I will take care of that member, and others like him. Why? Because that post was before the takeover drill started. That post was made at 7:26 PM on 6/8/06. The takeover did not start until after 10 PM. What does that mean? It means that member was illicitly advertising, and that is unacceptable. As for the claims that this was a massive advertising charade, I cannot repeat enough how ineffective it was compared to conventional methods (alliances, Classifieds, etc). Also, if it were just some massive scheme, I would have conducted it for longer. But I didn’t, and that says something of my motives. It says that I was doing it, as I said before, for benign group-improving reasons. I have learned so much more than I could have from merely hypothesizing, as you might imagine. I now know how the whole forum will react, down to the most granular aspects. And while I apologize for the five-forum cross spam, it was, whatever you may want to believe, an unintentional side-effect of the drill. Please be aware that other groups, like MBT, have staged drills before. That was were I got the idea from, for your information. They were not using it to advertise and nor was I. Are they suspect to your claims as well?
Posted by: Achronos
Don't do it again, m00zor.
There we have it. The final word of God. I now shut up and cease talking. =D
[Edited on 6/9/2006]