Hmm, welsper let me ask you a question, and i'm not a programmer but I know that it is feasible to manipulate chat functions, in dungeons through Duty Finder you can't even use the private message option for example. Would it be out of line to think that if gold spammers became something more monstrous due to implementing systems which make crafters more necessary, that they could just create a function within the general shout chat in which if you are spamming any message over and over or just producing content in the shout chat quicker than say 30 seconds at a time after the last time you pressed enter that your function to use shout just gets blocked for a day or something?

**edit** after re reading what i posted i realized even if you managed to stop them from advertising themselves with shout they could still just private message you an invitation to purchase gold from them huh?