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Good Post Bartholomew:
I've encountered this sort of thing a few times too. Mostly on Abassa in Tortuga and Port Royal.

This was one area I touched on a bit in my thread Questions and Suggestions regarding guilds. I kind of wanted to get into some of the issues we face as Guildmasters and Officers and get some feedback on these areas with that thread.

At one time my pirate Ben Swordmonger wore sort of a green uniform, I've been in Tortuga on Abassa and looking through the public chat actually seen the griefers at work one of em telling another one " See that guy wearing green go get him to guild you" At which point someone usually a low level and often a basic access player would approach and start begging me to guild them, When the begging failed then they would get pretty obnoxious about it. Keep in mind this was in a crowded Tortuga with probably well over 100 pirates on the beach with plenty of different guilds represented there, and out of all those pirates and guilds they single out someone who just arrived there. I've had the same sort of scenario play out in Port Royal and Padres as well. One night I was with a group of high level friends on Padres one of us had just hit level 40 and we were waiting by the shipyard while inviting more of our friends to join us as we were getting ready to sail to a wild island to have a level 40 party for our friend. While waiting there we were approached by a couple low level unlimited players who began by interupting our conversation with public chat, Our group was all talking on crew chat. We politely informed them that we were having a private conversation within our group, hoping that they would take the hint and leave us. First they began hitting us with friend invites which we politely refused, then they began begging us to crew them which we also politely refused. Our group represented several guilds and these two individuals then began asking different members of our group to guild them, again they were refused. The situation escalated as these two began having their friends teleporting to them and soon we were surrounded by a group of low level mostly basic access players and being harrassed by them. They were also getting pretty nasty in their whispers to the lady pirates in our group. This was back before the boarding permissions were fixed and it was possible for people to simply click on you and teleport onto your ship uninvited. We tried teleporting to another location only to have them follow us there by clicking on members of our group before we teleported. We launched a ship and had three of them teleport onto the ship, we docked and got rid of em. We sailed to outcast for our friends level 40 party. Apparently one of them had been following our ship as soon after our arrival one of them also landed on outcast and had a bunch of his friends teleport to him. At this point we reported them. The whole situation had began innitially with our refusal to friend and crew a couple of obnoxious and pushy players and escalated from that point.
After that incident I don't hesitate to report people for harrassing behavior.

I never guild strangers who act too eager to join or who approach me begging me to guild them. Always considered that a warning sign of trouble.
You're right No other player has a right to be included, membership in our guilds, our friend lists and our crews are a matter of our choice alone.

One thing that I've found that helps within the guild after you have guilded a new member is a rule in which they cannot be promoted to officer until they have been a member for 30 days. Most griefers and guild jumpers don't have the patience to wait 30 days. Also works as a probationary period.