Guild Finder is full of listings for long-dead guilds. Can these listings have expiration dates, please? It would also be good to build in some incentive for guild leaders to keep these listings up to date and even use them. For mythic raiding guilds, this isn’t the tool to use, that’s fine, I’m not looking for that (and I know many others are in the same boat). This would be great for those of us who generally play on our own (sans RL friends), but want to belong in a group.
Just throwing that out there. I’m curious if others agree or if I really am all alone in this.
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Guild postings expire after 30 days, so it’s not possible for “long dead guilds” to still have listings.
Incentives? I’m not following.
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I did not know that. That’s interesting. When I look at guilds on there in armory, I see like zero activity for most of them.
I dunno. I don’t have anything in particular in mind, but I studied economics, I like incentives to get people to do something they otherwise don’t want to do when it would benefit the larger group overall. 
I’m inclined to disagree on that.
They are suppose to drop off after 30 days, but I’m fairly certain that they don’t. I myself was gone for about nine months. Upon returning, I had fresh applicants waiting for me in my own dead guild that one of my alts leads.
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Guild and community finder should be updated, both are very bad.
It’s very misleading when it points out the character amount as that is likely mostly alts. I wish it wouldn’t count those. My guild would show up as having some 300+ players but we only have about 4 or 5 actively playing ones. The vast majority are alts and the rest quit earlier this expansion. My suggestion would be to have the player count not count alts at all but also to reflect “recently active” players only, maybe ones who signed on for at least an hour in the last month? That seems a little too low for me but you get the idea.
It’s also hard to just kinda filter through what you are looking for. Needs to be a better way to search and like stats given.
“Highest key ran as guild group this season”, “x/x bosses downed in current raid”, “something something pvp”. Stuff like that would help us judge how currently active the guild is.
I know some of this can be looked up out of game, but I shouldn’t have to go out of game.
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This for sure would be useful if updated. Maybe x number of active accounts over the past y days.
But it’s also something that the system could automatically update monthly or each patch.
And yet I have a guild that I use for banking and have a bunch of alts in, and it has been on the listing for at least 2 years, and still is today. I keep it up there so I can join any alts I make in it.
My main Horde guild is much the same. The GM doesnt play anymore (she was on for about 5 minutes 3 months ago) nor do 99% of the rest of our 300+ character listings for the guild. If I am ever looking for a guild on an alt server, I tend to do a who for the guild to see how many people are on in prime time. It gives me much more of a true idea than showing the member numbers, and most guilds dont actually tell you are they are largely inactive atm.
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That is not entirely true. Just today I had an issue where I applied to a guild on a horde character I was leveling. I was declined and I sent a tell to the GM asking about it directly. He said they weren’t taking new members and I asked about the guild finder. He told me they had let it expire on their end and didn’t know why their guild was still listed in the guild finder.
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Ive had to go into my guild settings just to uncheck the box that shows it in the finder when i add my alts to it.
I suspect many people are in the same place as me and my guildies, we have a posting on the guild finder because there’s no other way to invite ourselves when nobody is online. Our listing says “we love gnomes and we don’t exist” or something like that. Lol
I think being able to invite your own alts to the guild without them being online, or making a posting, would help reduce the number of closed listings.
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I’m very sure that’s broken. I have a side guild and for giggles, I put it on GF to see if I could get some interest. In typical fashion, I forgot rather quickly I had done it. A few months later I did a search on another character and my side guild was still listed.
They are supposed to drop off after 30 days, but they don’t actually do that.
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I mean… I’ve never actually tried to let or guilds listing to run out of time to test that. I tend to refresh or if it’s been 10 days. So I can’t confirm that one.
Guild finder could definitely use some improvements, as could the guild structure itself.
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Perhaps the surviving members are trying to rebuild, thru the guild finder?
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Given that guilds are the lifeblood of a ge like this, these are great points.
Guild Finder posting expires in: 30 Days
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