It needs to be mandatory, otherwise there will be groups who deviate from what the community is doing, and thats the goal: To bring the official factions in line with the overall community. The fact is, there are faction posts up that no longer make sense, and by making it optional, we allow those posts to remain as is. While intended to be helpful, its meant to help the community, not any faction. Help the community by applying what the factions should already be doing with a little more pressure. Anyone who would opt out is hiding something, or far to lazy to run a faction well.
