The Long Road to the Top if You Wanna Rock n Roll

I send 40000, but only of one resource.  To each their own, I guess.  

Myrin wrote: Rill, your statement that you disagree with their philosophy proves that there are two different ways of looking at it. They mentioned no other alliance and didn't say that those who thought differently were wrong. You came into their recruitment post and turned it into something controversial. Personally, I think your post on page one should be removed.

You're of course entitled to your opinion. A little context and a different perspective:
The recruitment thread was started Jan 19th. The secondary post, that Rill responded too, was posted Apr 15th, nearly 3 months later. To imply that Rill tried to hijack the recruitment thread ignores the sequence of events, IMO.
Additionally, if you had been lurking around Global Chat at that time, you'd know that there was a considerable amount of criticism directed at certain players for the practice of welcome vans. I myself was accused of using it as a recruitment ploy. As I told Eternal Fire at the time, I send plenty of vans to players for whom I think my alliance is probably a bad fit. And tbh, I'm not generally an aggressive recruiter; no one in my alliance is.

Primarily, though, here's the rub: according to the Apr 15th post, there are two basic attitudes; 1) welcome players warmly with hugs and gifts, 2) Encourage players to be self-sufficient. The two are not mutually exclusive!!!I believe Rill is justified in objecting to the idea that (for example) when I send 1500 of the 4 basic res to a new player, verbally welcome them to the game, and answer any questions they might have, that means I'm making a player who will be dependent. It's hogwash.

I found this thread a little late, however, I think Rill's post on page one was way out of line. I didn't see anything said that they were condemning how other people play the game. The members of TLR merely stated how they work in their alliance. I find your statement to be confrontational and inappropriate particularly since this was a place for them to recruit like minded players. 

I think, just my outburst here, that this *helps* the recruitment thread.  one, advertisement: all these people been posting here so it's a fairly regular item and two, it shows how some of the people think in the alliance.

abstractdream wrote: I admit the word "hug" may need to be Illy-copywritten. I do have a bit of hugophobia going on, but honestly I was not trying to call your alliance out. I was actually tring to call out everyone who snuggles, huggles, sniggles and whatever other dripping form of greeting there is. I'm just not a snugly chat fan but I do not have a problem with all of the lame touchy feely crap that usually goes on in the snugly crowd. I can ignore it. My refence to hugs was taken wrong and I should not have gone there and for that I appologize.

So I got a bit uppity and I apologize, again. If the two sentences in question were removed?