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Cold Call whispers. Thoughts?
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Post by
Zokudu
Hey what are everyones thoughts on just randomly whispering someone? In my case I am looking for members for my guild. Rude? Do you get offended if you get a whisper on a guildless toon about it?
I always felt that the random invites were a pain but a whisper seemed more kosher to me especially if it's worded politely and they are not continually spamming me. I just had one person go off the deep end on me. I just apologized and moved on but I dunno i kinda expect if I'm running around guildess to get a whisper or two.
Post by
underpass
I hate real life cold calls, and am sometimes rude to the cold caller. In Wow i think its perfectly ok as long as it's not spam or rude. I got into my first guild this way. I've since left to join one with friends, but i see nothing wrong with it. They can always ignore you and not allow comm w/ you. I get cold whispers for portaling people all the time, no big deal.
Post by
Magician22773
Instant ignore in my case. Your guilds rep will also be ruined by this tactic.
If you want members, a short message posted in /2 is fine, just dont overdo it. Just advertise as a social leveling guild,.......and then BE a social leveling guild. Dont expect 100 members overnight, and e kind and helpful to every member you get.
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Post by
Zokudu
I hate real life cold calls, and am sometimes rude to the cold caller. In Wow i think its perfectly ok as long as it's not spam or rude. I got into my first guild this way. I've since left to join one with friends, but i see nothing wrong with it. They can always ignore you and not allow comm w/ you. I get cold whispers for portaling people all the time, no big deal.
lmao...wouldn't every call be a cold call..unless your telepathic or ...wait..your opening remark makes no sense.
The term cold call in this context is referring to whispering/calling people without having any contact with them beforehand. If your best buddy calls you asking to go drinking that's not a cold call because it's not just a random call where someone is trying to convince you of something.
Post by
Monday
I hate it when people just whisper me and ask me to join a guild. In my experience, people who join guilds like that never stay for long or do very much.
Just my $0.02.
Post by
calilac
Never ever macro whisper. I've had too many times when someone sends out a mass macro whisper and then I whisper them back and they're all "huh? what do you want? who are you?" or I'm outright /ignored like they had no idea they sent it out. I advise you to be polite and brief in a single first whisper.
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Post by
Thandion
I don't mind getting whispers from people when I'm on a toon which is guildless. What annoys me is the auto-invites you can get bombarded with.
Ask me if I want to join by all means, but don't throw guild invites at me.
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Post by
badbee
I personally find them an irritant, you can turn off guild invites that stops them being spammed. It's possibly the quantity that does it, but in some of the lower lvl areas it feels like you are getting three or four a minute at times.
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Post by
GravenTerenas
I don't mind the ones that are polite, and to the point. I will always reply in the same manner, to decline but thank them for the offer.
What I hate are the ones that just start with "Hi" and make you whisper them back to find out if it's someone you know on a new alt or whatever, only for them to reply with a macro about their guild. These are the equivalent of those infuriating RL cold calls where they use a mass-dialler to call hundreds of numbers, so when you first pick up all you get is a machine.
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