Despite the fact that general was an annoying, spammy chat, I opine that it was great for advertising. Players usually go ingame when looking for rps, and I found that I got more recruits there than when I tried using the forum.
I find using the video clips quite irritating, because the space is so limited, and video clips don't always work for everybody. My friend once had this problem; they couldn't play the movies, and it kept giving them an error message, which I received once too. But I must say, the chats don't zoom by so fast when people aren't spamming in Gen. x3
However, I'm sure deleting gen won't solve the spamming problem. I was in fluorite today, trying to advertise, and people were already video spamming from time to time, and saying unnecessary things like "Ello, nice to meet u" in their vids.
When it comes to rping, people can use either Local or Group. Local is an iffy topic, because sometimes people like to chat in local and it can annoy rpers. For group, if people don't want do join anything they can use Party.
It would have been nice if you had alerted us somehow before it had all begun. I'm curious to see the outcome of this.
~Game