123056-what-is-considered-spam

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Obviously sending the exact same message to the same person or /zone multiple times is spam.
 
But lately I've been using the /who system to find players to queue up for Practice Battlegrounds and even to find certain classes to round out my adventure/dungeon groups.
 
So, for example yesterday I wanted to do a Malgrave gold run. Given that the Explorer path is now required to achieve gold, I did a /who explorer which brought up a list of players with the Explorer path. I then went down the list asking each player if they would be interested in joining.  I must have asked at least 10-15 players before I finally got someone interested. Keep in mind I only asked each person one time
 
Is that considered spam and am at risk of being banned?
 
 	
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I'd personally say no.
You're using the tools given to you and simply talking with people.	
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Obviously sending the exact same message to the same person or /zone multiple times is spam.
 
But lately I've been using the /who system to find players to queue up for Practice Battlegrounds and even to find certain classes to round out my adventure/dungeon groups.
 
So, for example yesterday I wanted to do a Malgrave gold run. Given that the Explorer path is now required to achieve gold, I did a /who explorer which brought up a list of players with the Explorer path. I then went down the list asking each player if they would be interested in joining.  I must have asked at least 10-15 players before I finally got someone interested. Keep in mind I only asked each person one time
 
Is that considered spam and am at risk of being banned?
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			Were you polite? If yes, then I don't believe it was spam. If you were rude about it then yes it was spam  :P	
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Message was along the lines of
 
"Hi there, I'm putting together Vet Malgrave gold run. I'm in need of an explorer. Would you be interested in joining us?"
 
Reason for this post though was I received some very negative responses along the lines of
 
"Uhm, who are you? dont message me"
 
"Yea nice one... abusing the /who system to bother people"
 
"If I wanted to do Malgrave, I would have queued for Malgrave thank you very much" /ignored 	
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Message was along the lines of
 
"Hi there, I'm putting together Vet Malgrave gold run. I'm in need of an explorer. Would you be interested in joining us?"
 
Reason for this post though was I received some very negative responses along the lines of
 
"Uhm, who are you? dont message me"
 
"Yea nice one... abusing the /who system to bother people"
 
"If I wanted to do Malgrave, I would have queued for Malgrave thank you very much" /ignored
 
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			I don't think it was spam but I do think some of those replies were unnecessarily rude	
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I dont know about spam, maybe light harassment or unsolicited messaging. 
 
I think that generally speaking people dont like blind whispers asking if they want to stuff. I've had the same thing happen too with people asking me if i wanted to do a dungeon run because they did a /who and saw that i was a certain class or a certain level bracket.  Of course i just say "no thanks" or if i'm too into leveling i dont even bother replying back.  If you dont want to offend anybody or risk action (which i doubt would happen) then just type your message in Thayd or Illium chat and the public LFG channel, or zone chat if you are located in the same place as the dungeon.	
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I hate it when sales people come to my door unsolicited. I hate it so much I even turn away girl scouts. So that gives you some kind of idea what type of guy I am.
 
I would absolutely not be bothered by you messaging me in an MMO, and I do not think it's an abuse of the tool. Those folks were unnecessarily rude and you were better off without them.	
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I got a warning for doing just that, whispering to people on my /who list. I had a lot of back and forth with people at Carbine in E-mails and they said the warning stands. I no longer spam for PvP because I'm sure I'll be banned eventually for trying to get people to que up with whispers to people on the /who list. I also took a week off playing the game partially due to this. It unmotivated me to play the game resulting in some what of a self ban.
 
I'm looking forward to getting my 1800 gear for free soon. I doubt I'm going to see much of a difference in PvP but I guess we'll see. Nice thing is more PvP is popping already and it looks like next week is pretty promising that we will have the new PvP changes so we can get all our ability points and amp points through PvP and then welfare PvP 1200-1800 gear.
 
Get ready for people complaining about class imbalance because they wont be able to blame their poor tactical choices on gear soon so expect it to shift to complaining about class instead of considering they are making poor tactical choices with timing CC's, positioning, situational awareness,  aiming and team work.	
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I got a warning for doing just that, whispering to people on my /who list. I had a lot of back and forth with people at Carbine in E-mails and they said the warning stands. I no longer spam for PvP because I'm sure I'll be banned eventually for trying to get people to que up with whispers to people on the /who list. I also took a week off playing the game partially due to this. It unmotivated me to play the game resulting in some what of a self ban.
 
I'm looking forward to getting my 1800 gear for free soon. I doubt I'm going to see much of a difference in PvP but I guess we'll see. Nice thing is more PvP is popping already and it looks like next week is pretty promising that we will have the new PvP changes so we can get all our ability points and amp points through PvP and then welfare PvP 1200-1800 gear.
 
Get ready for people complaining about class imbalance because they wont be able to blame their poor tactical choices on gear soon so expect it to shift to complaining about class instead of considering they are making poor tactical choices with timing CC's, positioning, situational awareness,  aiming and team work.
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			Is it that bad? Are people really reporting you for this???	
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1 Person 2+ times is spam.
10-15 Different people 1 time is not spam.
 
You: Wanna _____?
Them: No.
Done.
 
If you got a warning for doing that you were probably doing something you shouldn't have like;
Asking more than once.
Answering their "No" with "Why?"
Calling them names(in a possibly joking manner).
Among other things...
 
Say you're going through a list of people and you take a while doing so, so you start to think "Maybe they've changed their mind" and you decide to chat 'em up again about the same stuff, at which point it becomes spam.
Ask me once? That's fine.
Ask me 2 or more times? Now you're a problem.	
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Interesting so what about this..
 
Crimelords run. You need a tank. So you message warriors engis and stalkers asking if 1. They are a tank and 2. If they are would they like to join.
 
you finally find one after asking around 30 players.
 
So you do the run and have a blast. 25 minutes later the run is finished and your tank has to log. You still want to run another adventure though. You queue your group (minus tank) and wait severa minutes with no pop.
 
It's been 35 minutes since you last used /who and by this time and you have no idea which players you had asked for the previous adventure.
 
Is it okay to start sending tells out asking the same thing as before to most likely a few of the same people?
 
It is a separate event... But to those players it would fee like spam	
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