Government:Delegate Todd McCloud's Statement on Regional Message Board Advertising

The following statement was made by Delegate Todd McCloud on March 17, 2013, regarding the Nazi region of Greater German Reich breaking the East Pacific's advertising rules of the time.

The original statement can be found here.

Statement

So anyway I'm kind of tired of having to suppress their posts on the RMB, and I'm pretty sure you all are tired of reading them. They've continuously disregarded our adspam rules and by doing such have displayed an outright disrespect to our region.

Most regions actually do adhere to our rules; some even ask me beforehand to make sure their ads are alright. I don't mind that, because that's more or less their way of saying 'alright, we know we get our numbers from your region and regions like yours. Least we can do is respect what you ask us to do.' Now, I don't believe recruiting via the RMB is a good idea but this isn't really a time to argue that. Bottom line is this: it's legal in-game, and regions still do it. Most adhere to our rules, and that equates to zero problems with me.

But what I do have a problem with is the amount of disrespect our RMB has received over the course of... well, years. Clearly nothing seems to be working to discourage this behavior. Suppressing their posts doesn't work. Catching their puppets at the right time and banning them doesn't seem to work either. Insisting that they stop hasn't worked. What else is there to do?

This goes outside of ideological differences. I do not like Nazism and, despite talking to Max and a few others, there doesn't really seem to be any consensus to remove the ideology from the game (note: the ideology, not the players who are currently aligned to it). So, we have no choice but to coexist. This is merely an issue with the RMB. Our RMB is like our main control center for this region. When The Empire took over back in 2008, it was used as a means to spread the word to take our region back, to endorse well-known TEPers, and to connect our forums and government-in-exile to the regional page itself. Culturally speaking, it is sacred to our identity as a region. It deserves to be treated as such.

After a laundry list of offenses, pressure can indeed mount up, and pressure, left untreated, can indeed lead to escalation. So be it. I am definitely a forgiving type, but I am also a type that does not like to take things sitting down. There simply must be more that we can do to underscore the fact that this is wrong and we as a region won't take it anymore.