Please add an emote spam filter.

Thankfully while most people are sensible enough to have emote text turn off, not everyone is as nice. It's really difficult to talk to your friends then have a bunch of randoms come up and start spamming their emotes. Especially now, during the winter season when it's fun to spam throwing snowballs at friends. While I'm glad people are having fun, if I get 200 unrelated emote texts while I'm trying to talk to people, and our messages disappear in the log and we have to chase them down, well, that's not so fun, is it?

I know we can remove emote text from showing in our chatlogs entirely, but that disables our own friends emoting at us, and it's easy to miss things then. I hope you can see why this isn't a solution.

Basically I'm asking you to consider adding a spam filter which forcibly mutes emote text, so when people spam the emote buttons it stops showing them in chat entirely for some seconds. A minute at least, ideally.

Edit: by sensible enough to turn it off I just mean when overusing them, of course. Not for normal emote uses.

how does one even do this?

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Originally Posted by blu789

how does one even do this?

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Do what? Turn text off?
In your emote list at the bottom there's a box that says "Display log message." Turn it off.

Alternatively add the motion sub command to the text command. "/throw motion" as an example.

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Originally Posted by Wyssahtyn

Alternatively add the motion sub command to the text command. "/throw motion" as an example.

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Right, because people are gonna type that in instead of just spamming the existing emote key :(

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Originally Posted by superbowlide

Right, because people are gonna type that in instead of just spamming the existing emote key :(

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It's useful for if you just wanna do an emote or two without also announcing it through chat.
You can do the emote motion only without having to go through a menu to toggle log message off, do the emote, and then toggle log messages back on.

I blist ppl who spam emotes, promote their "fun social cafe" (which are usually brothels from what I have read) and talk in /say. You literally emote or /say more than 3 times in a row and I will right click and blist you. To me it's rude outside of rp areas/servers. But I am also the type who shuts down global chat in games who have it as well since it's usually just atrocious lol

So yeah we could totally use this, or add the ability to blist in instances cause there are times where the same person will shoot off 10+ emotes before the entry gate even goes down.

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Originally Posted by ItMe

It's useful for if you just wanna do an emote or two without also announcing it through chat.
You can do the emote motion only without having to go through a menu to toggle log message off, do the emote, and then toggle log messages back on.

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I don't see how this is related? In general, yes, being able to do motion in text commands would be a neat idea.

However, the issue I'm bringing up isn't me having to open emote log, turn text off, emote, then turn text back on, which is what it sounds like you're trying to point out. The issue is people, random people you don't know, spamming emotes and choking out anything else that is being said or is happening.

These people aren't manually typing in /slap /slap /slap /slap into chat (or using the arrow keys to bring up what was previously typed in, if I truly need to point this out), they're using the emote buttons, possibly even have them on their hotbars specifically so they can spam their friends with it. But if you're in a normal area--and let's exclude cities, as there's lots going on in the cities--or even an instance like

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Originally Posted by MicahZerrshia

or add the ability to blist in instances cause there are times where the same person will shoot off 10+ emotes before the entry gate even goes down.

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pointed out, this becomes a major issue. This is why I'm asking for an active chat filter.

... But I do type my emotes, and repeating it is as simple as pressing enter, up and enter again.

Eh, I just learned to tune it out. If I go to the market board in Limsa and a bunch of people are emoting at each other I see it as little different to when I go for a walk in the nearby forest and locals greet me and each other in passing. It pretty much only happens in busy areas from what I've seen.

Let's not forget, FFXIV is the only way some people can connect with friends and family right now due to how 2020 has gone so far and there's still no sign of overbearing restrictions being lessened anytime soon in many parts of the world.

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Originally Posted by Ammokkx

... But I do type my emotes, and repeating it is as simple as pressing enter, up and enter again.

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Not the point of the thread. It doesn't matter what way you spam your emotes. The problem are the people who refuse to turn their text off and spam the chat log. I really wish I took screenshots of the event that finally made me make this thread... I'm not exaggerating that they got minimum a hundred emotes off within a few minutes, as there were several of them. The point is their spam, not the way they spammed.

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Originally Posted by Theodric

[...] Let's not forget, FFXIV is the only way some people can connect with friends and family right now due to how 2020 has gone so far and there's still no sign of overbearing restrictions being lessened anytime soon in many parts of the world.

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They can connect all they want, buddy, but not like this. The reason I made this thread was because I, too, was trying to talk to people, and it all disappeared because of their emote spam. Are they more important than my friends for some reason? I know this isn't what you were getting at, but it's still a ridiculous thing to point out. It has nothing to do with the thread.

They have this via chat tabs

character configuration > log window settings > log filters > pick any or all tabs > chat > turn standard emotes off

Haven’t people been reported in the past for emote spam?

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Originally Posted by MicahZerrshia

I blist ppl who spam emotes, promote their "fun social cafe" (which are usually brothels from what I have read) and talk in /say. You literally emote or /say more than 3 times in a row and I will right click and blist you. To me it's rude outside of rp areas/servers. But I am also the type who shuts down global chat in games who have it as well since it's usually just atrocious lol

So yeah we could totally use this, or add the ability to blist in instances cause there are times where the same person will shoot off 10+ emotes before the entry gate even goes down.

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I love you, marry me pls.

Absolutely, right... and if special RP areas/instances are asked to much, pls extent our blacklist.

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Originally Posted by Zomkei

character configuration > log window settings > log filters > pick any or all tabs > chat > turn standard emotes off

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Please reread my original post. I pointed out why this isn't a solution.

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Originally Posted by superbowlide

Please reread my original post. I pointed out why this isn't a solution.

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I think that is the solution though. Chat spam is against policy and if someone is doing excessive emotes, you report/blacklist and move on.

What you're asking is some kind of code to be implemented that measures how often each and every player sends something (emote/text/shout/whatever) to the chat system to be displayed. You're also asking it to police some limit of text inputs over some period of time. (eg. how often and how many times can I throw a snowball in succession? 1 per 10 seconds? What if I'm having a legit snowball fight with my friends in the middle of the wilderness with nobody around? Does this only police city areas?)

Even more server processing if it needs to discern if the messages are identical (same emote over and over) or just a lot of chat. Individually this isn't huge, but when we're talking every single player it's asking a lot of the server.

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Originally Posted by superbowlide

Please reread my original post. I pointed out why this isn't a solution.

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Not really, the solution already exists. Have two chat tabs, one as normal and one with emotes disabled.

They’ll resolve your sensitivity to chat spam without requiring additional features that should be resolved with tab filters anyway.

I'd be pleased if they stopped adding sounds to emotes. People spamming the new paintbrush emote sounds awful, lol.

It's already built into the game. vs asking please add maybe look for it or ask if it is there.
I'm sure a quick shout in a bussy town someone could have helped you.

https://i.ibb.co/j6ZfZ99/emote.png

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Originally Posted by Shofie

I'd be pleased if they stopped adding sounds to emotes. People spamming the new paintbrush emote sounds awful, lol.

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They do have this.
System configuration > audio > Player effects volume > other PCs. turn it to zero.

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Originally Posted by superbowlide

Please reread my original post. I pointed out why this isn't a solution.

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it literally is though? you can change tabs whenever you want. just have one tab with it on, and one with it off for when people spam it.

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Originally Posted by superbowlide

While I'm glad people are having fun, if I get 200 unrelated emote texts while I'm trying to talk to people, and our messages disappear in the log and we have to chase them down, well, that's not so fun, is it?

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I know people spamming it is annoying but you have 4 chat tabs available. Just create filtered tabs and switch.

I have one for guilds, one for contact circles, one for RP and one general tab. (I don't need the ingame combat log)

The sad part about this is SE lets this happen, yet if they are reported to the GMs, they potentially get a suspension (it's happened). At least let us filter them on the client end so we don't see other people spamming this.

You can put emotes in their own separate chat tab.

What’s the difference between standard and custom emotes?

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Originally Posted by AngelCheese77

What’s the difference between standard and custom emotes?

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standard is things like /poke /wave /throw etc, while custom is what it says, custom emotes. usually folks who rp use them. /em walks towards you. etc

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Originally Posted by Greyhawk

The sad part about this is SE lets this happen, yet if they are reported to the GMs, they potentially get a suspension (it's happened). At least let us filter them on the client end so we don't see other people spamming this.

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I mean... you can. The setting is there. It's just that for some reason the game never mentions about Log Filters existence during initial guide, so a lot of people (and this thread shows it) don't even know that they can decide what they will see in their chat logs.
https://i.ibb.co/Fxvs6p3/2021-01-02-133553.png

As for animations - there's not much they can do except allowing to turn off players's sounds and animation effects, which is also already implemented.