In terms of the hugging, both tribes did it - I think Bandit was the most annoying one because it affected me the most at the time.
Having said that, I was genuinely surprised when Mayhem recruited some of the IK players (Kiam's tribe, i was on the Kiam account) because they could have fought us and would have easily won due to being outnumbered. They were selective when it came to recruitment but still it is hugging at the end of the day... War then retaliated and took Bandit in which just made that area of the map stale with basically no movement. After a while i quit the world because it was just too boring; like you said Clara, if you're not enjoying the world then leave it...
Mayhem have a lot of good players and i did enjoy being apart of them, but I don't think they needed to recruit everyone they did (including myself lol). WAR retaliated by doing the same thing (could argue because they had to) but overall at that point it was just too boring and lots of good players quit :-/