I think what your gut is telling you is that it would feel more like an infringement on freedom of speech outside of the game to try and curb OOC recruitment.
That's not it at all. I could care less about "freedom of speech". You have no right to it here. This is not an organization run by the US government, or any other government. In fact (and other devs and magistrates can confirm this if they'd like) I'm typically heavy-handed when it comes to community moderation.
I find it hard to believe that even 1% of players choose a realm for a new character based on only IC information. I've only done it once myself and that was as part of Oligarch's WCC revenge plans. The WCC sure as hell wasn't standard back then and its like is even less common now.
