idk if i can give out names of accounts or guilds here without getting in trouble for harassment and i refuse to be the one who gets banned here
idk if any of the other platform/servers deal with this at all but on pc/na theres a particular band of guilds with incredibly aggressive recruiters. they dont bother posting ads in chat and waiting for people to respond and apply, they hound all nearby players with unprompted guild invites, multiple times in a few minutes sometimes in my experience
theres gotta be some form of automation, whether most of the accounts of this recruiter are entirely bots or theyre just using addons to fill in names. my username and characters names tend towards the more complex and long side, youre prolly not typing it out after a brief glance as i ride by and yet i still get invite spammed.
asking the recruiter to stop sending invites to strangers when they havent asked for them didnt do anything. other players making fun of how desperate the band of guilds must be in zone chat hasnt deterred them. ive tried reporting these accounts for spam but ive got an email back saying its somehow not against terms of service or code of conduct
there have been times where ive been unfortunate enough to pass by the recruiter multiple times in just a couple minutes and gotten an invite each time. one day i was doing crafting writs in daggerfall while this recruiter was camped by the wayshrine. i handed in my writs and got an invite, i realized i missed one thing so on my way back i got an invite, i returned back to the writ drop off and got another invite, finally i went back up the stairs to find a merchant and i got yet another invite. how is something like thay NOT spam????? how is hounding strangers to join your guild not a form of harrassment?????
im not the only one dealing with this. whenever that recruiter is on you can oftentimes see other players complaining about it zone chat. ive heard other players in my guilds complain about this particular guild and recruiter. its incredibly annoying for everyone unfortunate to get multiple invites and no one wants to be subjected to that.
its one thing to accidentally send an invite to a stranger bc you made a typo in a new recruits name or you clicked on the wrong autofill, its spam when you send multiple unprompted invites to the same stranger despite them refusing each time and asked you to stop