I am glad so many people are finding SOTA and they are excited about it. Please don't make the same mistake I did. When you start a group, advertise it once in the chat. I tried advertising every five minutes and even that wasn't enough. I know you dont mean anything by it and are just excited. Be aware that you may be ostracized from some groups. People may not even say anything to you in-game before blocking you.
The most important thing would be to turn it into an OPEN group. Some people forget that and wonder why noone joins them... Like I did once when fishing and someone approached me to say that a closed party canĀ“t be joined only invited to... And then think about time. There may be some people of different continents around but as far as I notice the majority is coastal US and their timezones.