Quote Originally Posted by van_arn View Post
No, because Shout chat is easy to turn off. If shout chatting got too spammy, shout advertising would become ineffective.
If enough people turn it off that is. If people are seeking the kinds of thing in those shout channels they might keep it turned on. And what if it is just the right amount of spammy that people just tolerate it in the main cities where it's happening but keep it turned on, because people use shout chat outside of cities. I mean it'd be inefficient to spam outside of the main cities.

And for sure if it's ERP spam, all those underaged people you're worried about will have plenty of exposure to those ads before they've even decided it's worth turning off shout chat.

It does nothing to fix the problem you're claiming concern about. I think I am starting to see why the OP suggested it's a bad faith argument, because the other thing you have argued is that you just don't want to see it and for it to stay out of sight and out of mind...which this solution would allow you to do. But if anything would likely make things worse for your other concern (about underaged people) because it'd be no longer tucked away in a PF and would be openly visible in a huge public channel.