Contact Card Group Inviting Doo-Dah-Majig
Ok, so I do not know the actual name of them. And the name I choose to give them is appallingly foul mouthed of me and I therefore won’t share. But let me explain what I mean. There are gadgets out there now that enable people to invite everyone they basically once had on their buddies list to any of their groups. I believe it does based on calling cards in their inventory, though I could be wrong. It wouldn’t be the first time.
The point is, if someone is no longer on your buddies list, whether you still happen to have their calling card or not, the chances are they don’t want to be in your stupid group. If they didn’t like you enough to be your friend, they probably don’t like you enough to tolerate your spammy group.
This is at its most irritating when it happens to business accounts. There is an avatar, for example, I am required to use for certain land maintenance tasks. The offlines to this avatar, which is only ever used when certain tasks need to be carried out, go to email. And I am getting a little sick of the “Such-and-such-a-body has invited you to join their group, ‘DJ Who-the-Hell’s Fanclub’.” By ‘fanclub’ of course he means the three newbies he paid L$100 each to to be in it and everyone else he spammed from his contact list. None of them are really his fans. They are all either his alts or the people who feel inclined to accept and stay in his group because they are overly polite. And of course by being in the group you open yourselves up for IM after IM from the guy. “Come watch my avatar stand at pixel decks while I stream crappy music in through a free trial of Sam. It’s best in [insert a meaningless and boring adjective here] and your hostess is an automatic group inviter bot! Woot! Come on down.”
Anyway, I’m done bitching now. The moral of the story: Don’t be a prick.