The emote spam issue

[Anathaer]

Over the years this has been an issue that never gets addressed. I understand emotes are for social interaction, but people abuse these a lot! And I, for one, am finally fed up.

There a lot of people that don't have their log text off. This is fine, if they moderate their output. Unfortunately there are plenty of people that play like 5-8 emotes in a row. If you're REALLY unlucky, they just emote spam to spam and won't even wait till the movement has ended or are just plain doing it to be annoying. This abuse of the emote system has to stop.

Please, my suggestion is: Do something about the emote spamming. Nothing major, just maybe something as simple as what some chats have as delay. Thus blocking the text of consecutive emotes. I am aware this is not something that will block sound and movement, but it doesn't have to. Just the flood of text. Sounds and motion can be dealt with, the spammed text is intrusive. This is especially annoying when trying to keep up with friend chat.

[Dualgunner]

They should set the emote text to off by default, would fix the problem pretty well.

[ZioSerpe]

Are you seriously complaining about people using emotes?

[Makarrov]

Unfortunately there are plenty of people that play like 5-8 emotes in a row.

I'm guilty of this from time to time. I forget what the animations for the emotes look like so I go through some to look at them.

[Anathaer]

They should set the emote text to off by default, would fix the problem pretty well.

Exactly, that might fix it indeed...

[Anathaer]

I'm guilty of this from time to time. I forget what the animations for the emotes look like so I go through some to look at them.

Actually that is not spamming as badly as I seen it. I can understand wanting to do that, especially for a screenshot or such and unknown to what they do. And if you turn off the text, it still works the same. The spam I always see is like 10 times worse...

[Masekase_Hurricane]

Why dont you just turn your chat filters on :S

[Etoile]

[Nyerieri]

why is this even a topic? You could easily fix this yourself, but to each his own.

[Anathaer]

Because chat filters turn it off for EVERYONE. And I am talking about emote spam. I do use emotes, as do my friends, that I DO want to see. The text spam is what needs addressed, not the general emote text. Surely you can understand that difference.