What are your thoughts on guild spamming?

I'm getting somewhat tired of seeing people who continue to spam local channel when they continue recruit dialogs in 10sec or less. Maybe some people worry too much that "potential recruits" are going to be missed out on but it's a major pain in the @$$ when you have to continue scrolling local chat just to catch up on what others are saying, so seriously recruiters do need to be more respectful and knock it off.

This makes me wish Anet had a policy in place to keep it in trade where it belongs.

The system for advertising for new guild recruits is flawed. As well as the trade system, but thats another topic.
Could be fixed, but we know thats not likely to happen.

The problem isn't that there's recruiting going on in local chat, it's n00bs who think that they're going to have better luck getting people to join their guild by being obnoxious pains in the butt.

The bottom line is this: Whether it's flooding local chat with the same recruitment message every 10 seconds or spamming trade messages, there's a /report feature for dealing with the problem.

(hmmm... seems like I've said similar things about the same issue on these forums before.... must be de ja vue all over again!)

if its spammed...then /report
if its not spammed... then its not a problem

Yes it is flawed but they are supposed to be using that group function for trade/lfg but as always for 4 years, in one ear and out the other.

I find myself turning off local chat when passing through places like kamadan. But if your trying to talk to people using local chat...Then thats not good.

The problem is that there's not an easily distinguishable line between the two in the eyes of many different people.

There are systems that could be put in place to make recruitment and trading easier for everyone and would easily reduce spam. A Marketplace or bulletin board could do this. Those aren't things that are going to be added to GW with any swiftness, and the spam is hardly an issue in comparison to other things, such as game balance.

It's fine.

If anything, it's problem #926 on the list of things that need to be fixed in GW.

It's pretty annoying but tolerable for me. I tend to mock the spammers then they stop spamming and flame me. Good Times....

Spaming guild invite...
Well, I think that there are few guilds on GW that are more guilty of spaming than others. The main law breakers seem to be KISS, Yarr, NiTe, TWD and a few others. I think the reason for this is based on the fact that these guilds work on numbers, they need tons of people always. But what annoys me just as much as the guild spamers are the local yuts that always seem to fight with recruiters making for long periods of QQ and mean things typed in #local.

Personally, I never recruit in any town i spend time in...don't poop where you sleep you know

turn all chat off and talk in pms or make a team for team chat or move towns or....nvm, just QQ ;-)

How else do you expect people to recruit members to their guild? Party Search? Not a lot (well, from my observation) look into it often, if at all. Unless you're in Kamadon and need to find that specific item(s) to buy, or in a PvP arena looking for teams.

Bottom line is there is nothing else that is effective as continuously posting your guild in all chat. To turn that down for the purpose of peace in the chat window is unrealistic.

It pretty much is the only way to recruit.

If its done right - say every 20 secs then its not too bad but when its every few secs its bad - specially when in a quiet outpost.
Worse if you get a recruitment fight with 3 or more guilds spam recruiting then its bye bye local chat.
What they should do is set recruitment when u can only say it once in an outpost and it will show in a recruiting section and maybe once it sends it to all dists.That may cut down slightly on it.
But wont stop it bein spammed really in local chat.
Or even set a special npc in outposts that holds a list of guilds recruiting and who to contact - when that chr leaves outpost his advert is removed ( similar to first idea )

I honestly don't care. Doesn't bother me. Would rather see more important things attended to - making spirits viable in PvE, fixing Spawning Power, 7-hero parties, etc.

It's not like they have an option, right? I mean, what we need here is a massive, Guild Wars-dedicated forum with a section for Guild recruitment.

Oh wait...

It's nice to see that there are still players that want to do things with other players. May it be playing or just communicating.

I keep local chat turned off 90% of the time because otherwise the actual conversations I'm trying to have (teamchat/whispers ftw) get lost in the sea of guild spam and random blathering.

To be honest I really don't care, though it does get a bit tiresome when it's the same person advertising constantly. And when every message on local is from the same person when they're in Kamadan AD1...then they're really overdoing it.

last I checked the party window had a section in it For guild recruitment, people neeed to learn how to use it. I just report them the same way I report any other spaming jerk

The problem with the party menu is that you can only fit like 1/3rd a sentence in there, and people not trading generally don't look at it.

They need to fix the problem at the source. You simply can't fit enough in the party search for it to be very useful. A lot of times, it's hard for trading even...

The recruitment spam is annoying, yes. But, they don't have many successfully viable alternatives at the moment. Hardly anyone checks recruitment sections on forums, almost nobody checks the party search trying to find a guild.

I do think the spam side of it is certainly uncalled for. Those that say their message once and then hop districts and aren't back for a minute or so are absolutely fine...