Recruitment

[Burgerkrieg]

I'm a very frequent Reddit browser and I spend some time on r/Minecraft and stuff. I see lots of awesome buildings sticking out of the shitty mass of wooden boxes like golden towers of architectural finesse and artistic excellence. Sometimes I see Mexxys or Kupos posts, but there are lots of great builders out there who don't know about us yet. What I'm thinking of is some kind of uncle Sam picture that says "I want you for The Voxel Box!" maybe with ridgedog instead of uncle Sam, just for the lulz. Something like that.
The Idea is that us members can post that picture if we find an awesome piece of minecraft building in the depths of the internet that we consider awesome. If you send in the link of the reddit post/forum thread/whatever a member posted the picture would on your build that would increase the chances of greylisting. To prevent abusal, we should write our MC-Username (if not the same username as on that particular website anyways) in the same pot we put the picture in. If there are still doubts, the member can still be asked personally.
I think this is a great idea to enslave, uhm, I mean, recruit good builders we where missing out.

[SoulSoda]

People come and go as they please. This server isn't at a lack of members imo, there's already an abundance of people applying for greylist daily... ( those poor admins). Going after builders on specific servers isn't a good idea. Recruiting people for builds alone is wrong, building shouldn't be the selling point. Its this premier community of fine builders. I wouldn't stay a moment if i didn't have any fun or hold any respect for some of the members here.

We already have a youtube (partner) account, wiki, forumz, spamming MCforums, got some fame during Minecon, everyone going on about this voxel (sniper) mod, not to mention a certain famous shiny captain who likes to play here.

Personal experience says being recruited sucks, it didn't help me feel at home when i tried something new, and therefore keep me interested staying. It was fun but it certainly didn't feel right. It also created a ton of animosity on where your being "stolen away from". My old server didn't like it when i came to learn here for awhile. Being in your face about recruiting may work for awhile, but in the end it'll result in a bad rep amongst other servers.

and to be frank, i like watching our own people progress into mature builders, its pretty sweet seeing the changes in certain peoples techniques in just the few months i've been here.

also voxelbox's recruitment HQ was placed in Kupo's bedroom if there wasn't already enough incentives above.

[Kaspayaz]

I agree with everything Soul said.
It's not about having all the best builders, it's about having the best community of builders.

[rosedragon]

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