People are bypassing the character limit in the term filter...

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Originally Posted by Jargal

Oh gee what a great idea, how haven't I thought about it....... (there's a limit on the amount of filtered terms btw).

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...2bebc527a7066&

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There you go, "discord.gg" and "carrd" are extremely common in spam posts like this.

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Originally Posted by NegativeS

There you go, "discord.gg" and "carrd" are extremely common in spam posts like this.

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I made filters for the names of the housing areas instead. Since all of them have it in the adress, so far so good, haven't seen I single shout. Hope it stays that way.

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Originally Posted by DreadCrow

I'll never understand why people are bothered by shout ads and are incapable of tuning them out. I can't tell you the content of a single shout ad since my brain just makes them a void when I see it.

Hell, I barely see shout in general, since even big city shout chats are usually just pointless crap.

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Yeah, this pretty much. After a while, I just don't see them anymore unless I'm purposely looking. And even then, they only ever show up in the three cities.

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Originally Posted by gllt

I think it's a little conspiracy brained to assume every person posting shout chat ads is trying to circumvent your personal filters to advertise to you

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Yes and no. Not every advertiser is doing it on purpose but some definitely are. A good chunk of higher venue management are advertisement optimizers because it directly impacts having consistent incoming traffic to the venue as opposed to spikes that fade away because people leave at various times. Things that I did personally or knew that other people did in terms of optimizing/competition (some of these are considered bad by the community but still done by some parties):

- Controlling the locations that a shoutrun is performed at
- Controlling the length of the post based on feedback
- Controlling the details of the post based on feedback
- Controlling the location of the details in the post (what catches eyes/attention first)
- Controlling the timing of each shoutrun lap
- Controlling the amount of PF's posted (the more PF's hosted, the more you're at the top of the list)
- Controlling the spacing of PF's posted (spreading them out averages a higher time at the top)
- Controlling the timing of the shoutrun post itself to push out another venue's ad from someone shout's chat (posting right after so the game auto-scrolls and kicks it out)
- Posting more eye catching PF designs before and after someone's PF to dwarf that singular PF attention wise
- "accidently" hitting in-venue advertising macros while at other venues
- shoutrunning route edited to include shoutrunning in housing wards that are known to be populated by a venue/collab doing an outside event
- having multiple shoutrunners unrestricted on the same data center that leads to chat spam and overlap such as double posting from different people
- someone on twitter mentioned a location having someone sending tells advertising in Limsa instead of shout chat
- Yell/Say and Shout chat advertisement message to bypass people who have Shout chat disabled

Yeah I'm not denying that it happens and RMT stuff exists etc

Again, I think the filters could be expanded, I'd like to see the character limit bumped up. Regex would do a lot of good too.

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Originally Posted by VoidsentStatus

Yes and no. Not every advertiser is doing it on purpose but some definitely are. A good chunk of higher venue management are advertisement optimizers because it directly impacts having consistent incoming traffic to the venue as opposed to spikes that fade away because people leave at various times. Things that I did personally or knew that other people did in terms of optimizing/competition (some of these are considered bad by the community but still done by some parties):

- Yell/Say and Shout chat advertisement message to bypass people who have Shout chat disabled

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On that last one, I have to yield and say it is frankly annoying. Especially when in my Tell(Whisper) channel.

I wish we'd get a proper filter that can use regex.

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Originally Posted by Jargal

People are bypassing the character limit in the term filter...

And to you scum that do this, no one cares about your venue or your boring gpose pictures, go touch grass, perhaps practice photography in the real world to be worth something, you are not a real photographer and your gpose pictures are terrible.

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As a professional photographer irl myself, I find it concerning that you choose to criticize others in a video game and label everyone as bad. If you find their posts bothersome, you could simply mute or block them.

It might be worth considering whether you're the one who needs a break from the screen if such things affect you this much. You simply lost credibility once you started insulting others.

But hey, you do you boo.

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Originally Posted by NegativeS

There you go, "discord.gg" and "carrd" are extremely common in spam posts like this.

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Worth considering dropping the d and just filtering "iscord.gg" for the bonus of catching both "discord" and "Discord"

Put discord.gg/ and partake.gg in the filter and you will block 90% of all ads.




Cheers