Anyone is welcome to promote either a clan chat or a friends chat, including those any which cover the same remit as F2Pironmanfc, with the following conditions:
1. It must be done sensitively in a way that does not disrupt the chat or cause annoyance. FC moderators’ opinions on what is deemed excessive or disruptive should be accepted without argument and their requests to desist for a time should be respected.
2. Our own FC is not denigrated/criticised either overtly or implicitly in order to gain support for an alternative chat. If the promoted chat is found to be facilitating a culture of criticism of our own FC in theirs, promotion permissions will be retracted.
3. Advertising permissions must be reciprocal (ie users of our own FC must also be welcome to promote F2pIronmanFC in the same chat which a player is promoting in our own FC).
4. Our FC thread on the RS forums and our offsite forums here should not be used to advertise other chats, except by permission. Other chats are expected to create their own RuneScape forum threads rather than use ours.
Advertising your clans, in the 'plug your clans here' thread on these forums, is the exception to that.
5. The promoted chat should not be misrepresented, whether in pm/public chat or in the FC. For example, there should be no false claims of official or unofficial affiliation with F2PIronmanFC.
Obviously, we won’t be too bothered if someone has not first sought permission from their clan leaders for any mention of F2pIronmanFC in their clan’s chat before they mention their clan in F2pIronmanFC. Likewise, in the case of a friends chat covering a different remit, which is more of the 'drop in drop out' type for a specific purpose. However if the chat is a friends chat specifically covering the same or a similar area to our own, the above conditions will be adhered to strictly. Under those circumstances we would expect to hear from the alternative chat owner/leader to confirm that promotion permissions are reciprocal and that 'bad-mouthing' f2pironmanfc in their chat will be actively discouraged, before mention of the similar FC is permitted in our own FC.
Please also note that group leaders/owners (FCs and CCs) are liable to be held personally responsible for inappropriate advertising of their own groups that is undertaken by another player. It is the group leader’s responsibility to ensure that all those with connections to their group also adhere to our advertising conditions in FC, and to any further restrictions that may have been placed on advertising their particular group, due to a previous breach of our conditions. We would hope that a group owner would take steps to resolve any such issues internally within their group, so that action against them would not prove to be necessary.