i dont buy boost either and i get 1 or 2 calender spams every reset day and i don’t think i am their target audiance for a ‘’ heroic or normal ‘’ boost
It is possible that those who never got invites, but then got a bunch after buying a boost, have been put on some sort of “mailing list”. Like when you buy insurance or a mobile phone online … suddenly you’re regularly bombarded with people trying to get you to switch.
But for the rest of us, who haven’t used a boost, it’s obviously got to be some other form of targetting used. Often when I get the calendar invites, everyone else is likely to have been near me in an alphabetically modified /who (search for everyone with a name starting P, for example). I’m sure I’ve seen guild invite addons that utilise a similar principal.
Of course the /who is fairly broken too … so you have to be on the same shard as the person doing the spamming.
These calendar invites happened before, I think it was during Cataclysm. They kind of fizzled out then someone seemed to remember they existed again recently. So the ridiculous notion that this is boosting or community related is just rubbish.
this is beyond infuriating
how difficult is it to code a default opt out for calendar invites from anyone who isn’t in your guild/friends list ?
also, make it impossible to anyone to invite to a raid that he’s not of the appropriate level for, i doubt scammers will bother lvling toons to 70 just to spam the invites (assuming blizz actually ban the ppl who spam the invites)
Being invited to those spam boost events is nothing to do with whether or not a player has ever bought a boost, or ever been part of a community and people just need to stop spouting that rubbish tbh.
Blizzard or an addon just need to give us the ability to block them.
What i do is rightclick report for advertisment and then i mention the webpage and more it removes it and hopefully blizzard becomes aware of it being a problem.