Guild Wars 2

When people post a guild recruitment message in map chat, how long do you think they should wait until they post another recruitment message?

I haven’t had any issues with this, but was thinking of making a guild and I don’t want to be rude when trying to recruit. I’ve never really put a clock to how often other guilds post recruitment messages so I’m not sure how frequent would be too spammy.

I would say at least an hour for the same map. It’s one thing to post it every now and then. However when you have several guilds doing it every 15-20 minutes or so it really pollutes chat, especially given the length of most guid spam recruitment messages. So if you see a flood of guild spam recruitment messages I’d defiantly wait until there was a significant break from them as well. That’s just me though.

Length doesn’t really matter, just be sure you put what the focus or interests of the guild are, what server you originate from (for wvw), and something catchy. Try to avoid a guild message that starts fights or flame wars… Send it every so often, I’d strongly recommend a timer of some sort maybe 10-20 mins ish… Try to avoid spamming it on map changes if you are chasseing world bosses, most of the people on the boss train probably came from the same map you did :P…

I’d wait at least 15 minutes in between, maybe even 30. Sure you might miss some people that aren’t in the map for long, or who were busy fighting and missed a post, but if your goal is 100% coverage you should be using forum sections anyway so anyone looking for a guild can find your listing at their leisure.

I speak as someone who only joins guilds with friends who RP and doesn’t really want to see more guild spam than actual conversation in Map Though I do enjoy the cleverly humorous listings so long as they don’t fill my screen.

Also — pay attention to what else is going on in map chat. If there’s a strong discussion on a focused topic, or if you’re in a map doing daily events with people calling out event locations, it would be polite to withhold advertisements so people can see the more immediately important information being presented.

One an hour is probably good. If I start to see to many I’ll just start to temporarily put the recruiters on ignore so I can play in peace.

I would say once every 20-30 minutes, if you stay in the same map.

I report for spamming if there’s less than 5 minutes between messages. I’d say 20+ is a good amount of time. Make sure you’re also advertising on reddit and forum websites that have similar interests, because sometimes people go shopping for guilds.

Yeah. I can see waiting an hour if there’s busy chat or it’s in an active WvW map. I was thinking 20-30 minutes too though in general. I definitely agree tapering back depending on what else is going on in chat and if other guilds are filling up chat with their own messages.