My 2cp:
It's advertising. It's being done by a player, so it's a testimonial, the nicest kind of advertising.
Some people are simply overly sensitive to any form of advertising, and are highly cynical about it, after a lifetime of annoying dishonest advertising being thrown at them from the popular media. Thus the popularity of ad-free options such as Netflix, DVRs, mp3s, etc.
I don't fault one person for telling people how they feel about a server they love, and I don't fault another for feeling cynical about what they perceive as a commercial.
I also don't see the two devs who are posting as being people who are saying "I am a dev therefore you must listen to me", either. They just stated their opinions on it. They don't have a non-dev account for posting personal thoughts under to keep them separate from dev-related posts.
*shrug* Just an outsider, dropping yet another opinion. They're like assholes, ya know.
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