Spam continues to be a problem but from I hear less-so than many years back. I propose that many of the chat features to be limited while under level 30.

Why?

Simply put, when you're under level 30 you likely don't need to use shout, ever. Party chat, local chat, yes... But shout/yell doesn't seem very useful at a low level.

Level 30 seems like a good number because it takes some time to get there on a new account. Which begs the question, is it even possible to do this on a trial account? I'm not sure but mayhaps it should be disabled entirely except local/party chat.

My two gil~