User blog:TheDarkness909/Issue 1: Group Advertising

A HANDFUL of users have put out blog posts (not articles!) that explain the inner-workings of the groups they own or are associated with. I have written in my own article about this, but I personally feel this is an issue we have to address.

Let's get down to the basic fact;

If you're part of a group, we welcome you to the land of information. But if you're looking for members, here's where you're going wrong:

A wiki is a place to present facts. It is the home to information, but that's all it is. It's not a hub for groups to just post bulletins that give the most subtle message ever: "We're hiring/recruiting!"

Most of the users are not here to look for groups that are open, they're here for what they're looking for; facts... KNOWLEDGE! If you look up "truss" for example, ROBLOX Wikia should have an article about that. But if you look up "groups recruiting", you should not find an article on ROBLOX Wikia about that. That's where the problem comes in: THOSE ARTICLES ACTUALLY EXIST .

This is exactly the same case on Wikipedia: If you create an article there saying you're hiring or recruiting, they're GOING to remove that the moment it's spotted, because they don't take advertisements. This isn't Kijiji or Craigslist. When you come on the site, you don't post "Item for sale" or "Looking to trade currency". You post "this item was for sale" and "this person was looking to trade currency", because those are FACTS. They may not be interesting, but they're still facts.