Why would anybody want to come here? ER members backing a merge don’t even know if there is an ER discord yet
The person you are vagueposting about from another thread said they were new to ER. You cannot expect them to know everything about the server after a short period. All they did was answer one person’s post asking about a community Discord honestly, with the info they had. I replied shortly after with more information because I’ve been here forever and also happened to know more, but my reply and subsequent information was ignored in your post here. Please don’t exaggerate by using one cherry-picked line to support your point of view. You are entitled to your opinion but not entitled to step on a new person to the server to try and support it.
Here’s more info about ER Discords so misinformation isn’t spread. It’s also my reply to the same thread.
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/mergeearthenring/90295/214
we’re being told that there is a huge movement to merge on discord.
There is a fairly large movement. There are a handful of guild Discords with allies who have cross-posted and coordinated with one another about using the forums and in-game suggestion tool. It has been going for some months. I’m not sure if I would classify it as “huge,” as my guild Discord is just short of 200 members and I can’t speak for numbers of others or every place it’s been posted because I’m not a member of every ER guild Discord. But the movement is there and still active.
What have any of the pro merger crowd done to promote Earthen Ring in a positive light?
This feels diminutive at best. Just because you do not see it in front of your nose does not mean it hasn’t happened or continues to happen. For one slice of it, which I offer at the risk for you to cherry pick as well – but I post on my GM main, for the purpose of accountability and transparency so have at it – see my 2-year post history of events, realm cross-posting to invite CRZ neighbors, and other moments of bonding as best I can here on the forums. I unfortunately only have 2 years of post history on this particular account since Blizzard’s forum revamp two years back, but my habit of posting on the forums didn’t just kick off November 2018. Also, if you wonder why this character is level 51, my in-game main this expac has been Claret. I’m just better known as Arialynn around here so I keep it simple.
You can also check the post history of other frequent pro-merger folks who also use the forums to communicate events and support one another. The Court of Lions is another great example of a group that puts in its all to the server and bringing all the people they can.
Off-forum, Templars often posted recruitment threads on places such as Reddit to get folks to come here and extolling the virtues of our server, and you can find our post history there.
EDIT: A casual site search of Reddit also turned up posts by the Court of Lions as recently as 5 days ago recruiting to ER and their mission of new roleplayer outreach. We are not doing nothing, but nor should it be required of us to help ourselves to some level of judgmental degree in order to have our opinions of wanting a merge be worthy.
What have any of the “old guard” done to try and rebuild a sadly lost community?
See above. And.
Honestly, this is a rather crappy way to shift the convo from Blizzard being mute on communication and server merging vs. blaming us and our own daily efforts to make this place fun for the folks we actively engage with. To this day, we continue to stay connected with one another and host events for those who are still here. Every day, I work hard to maintain an engaging guild and inter-guild environment where I play part as leader. Frankly, it’s been a second full-time job and even moreso since the server got smaller, and comments like this are just willfully ignorant and piss people off more than continue a conversation towards understanding. If you want to understand, don’t levy accusations or “you haven’t done enough to help yourself” insults if you can easily be disproven. Just holy crap, what a way to get people mad at you when a forum search could have answered your accusation thinly masquerading as a question.
I think our disagreements ultimately come from you choosing this server on the basis of it being quiet, whereas I continue to choose this server on the basis of not wanting to leave and be separated from friends, or rupturing a large community I built and maintained over 10 years. They are opposing ideas and we are going to clash on how to resolve it, but treating us like we’re at fault for our own misfortunes while also not listening to our experiences/reasons why we want a merge is disingenuous and you can do better. I genuinely think us being merged with a few small servers in the same boat as ER would create a server environment better for the whole, and you’d still be on a small(er) server compared to the mega giants so many have moved to. Win-win.