I agree with you on the OP as well. If she had come on with a different attitude, I think all of us would have sympathized with her. Wanting to get people banned sends up red flags and is never a good way to start an opening post, particularly when the post is so vague as to the specific injury. Recruiting by itself is not a bad thing in general, as she seemed to say, but recruiting from a viable fellowship like hers is not really a good idea and I CAN sympathize with her on that. In her case, I think her fellowship is trying and gaining ground. I personally would never recruit anyone in her fellowship. I looked it up on Elvenstats and it shows as fairly decent ... not the kind where players are crying out to be rescued.
As far as people recruiting your archmage, I am the archmage of a fellowship with every member active, consistently getting 12 chests and gold in spire once a month (silver all the other times, except an occasional extra gold thrown in.) I was recently asked to join a gold spire fellowship by an acquaintance from the forum ... I thought it was funny, actually. I just said no thank you and went on my merry way. But I do have to admit I was surprised. I think the top groups are getting desperate for gold spire or high-level tourney players. Let's face it, the high level groups have a far smaller pool from which to recruit. If you're willing to take on newbies, as we do on occasion, you have a far bigger selection of players from which to recruit. If you are only going for gold spire members, you're going to be desperate. So that gives me some sympathy and understanding for the recruiter, despite my surprise.
In the end, I think it's all good .... you wanna get my best players? Give it your best shot, lol. Anyone who is unhappy with me ... should leave. I want them to go find happiness, with my blessing ... and let me have the open slot so that I can find a player who WILL be happy here. My fellowship isn't for everyone. When I say I'm going to do X, I do it. If I say you need a minimum 1000 points in the tourney, then if a month later you're still getting a couple hundred, I may drop you to get a more active player in. If you cause drama within the fellowship, you're gone. If you don't stick to the rules, you're gone. For example, we have a rule that you can't post zero star trades unless they are for the spire or tourney. If you post crazy trades and say they're for the spire, and then don't go in the spire at all, well, unless it was just an oversight or something happened, you're gone.
But I doubt anyone would leave unless for health, extra job, family problems, and all the normal reasons. I once left this fellowship to go chase gold in spire. It's possible someone might do that someday, and I will certainly encourage them to do it and then come back when they miss us (just as I did). I think most of my players couldn't be swayed to join another fellowship even if you offered free virtual snacks, lol. We have a ton of perks in our fellowship. My people have told me that they've never felt so good about being in a fellowship before. They never had their fellowship anniversary acknowledged with anniversary gifts (kp). They never had their 100K milestones recognized, again with kp milestone gifts. They never had crazy spire parties in which you can get kp for reaching the top as well as kp for silly stuff, like fellowship stories, spire drinking songs, etc. etc. We once had about 80 posts on one week's spire climb story about the whole fellowship going camping in the desert ... one member bringing a magical piano in a pocket, another one meeting up with wild animals that we magically transformed, etc, etc, ... it was a blast. Another spire climb party week we had asci art ... rabbits, fish, bears, etc.
Sure, it costs me a lot of runes, but who cares? It's not like I'm going to build a Tome of Secrets or an Endless Excavation at this stage, lol. And even if I do have to give away other runes, the joy that we feel in our fellowship is absolutely worth it. So yeah, give it your best shot ... I really don't mind. Even if you do succeed in recruiting one of my players, I figure they will always come back when they realize how much they miss us, and the little side trip might even make them happier than they were before. There's nothing like going home and realizing that it IS your home.
And if they don't miss us? That only means that they were never meant to be here in the first place. I hope they find their home ... I mean that. Everyone should find their very best home, as I have in Thornwood.