SE, you can do better than this (Regarding Spam)

[Slappah]

Yes true BUT every now and then take a minute to scroll threw the tells, its a bit of a pain but so much better than hearing the ping 1000 times. There are ways to handle/deal with it other than relying on others to fix it for you is what i am getting at.

Yeah but tbh..we shouldn't have to be "handling it" ourselves in the first place

[Dmc]

Yeah but tbh..we shouldn't have to be "handling it" ourselves in the first place

I guess i just can't understand your thinking... I still find it funny either way, thanks for the laugh!

[zosia]

Yes true BUT every now and then take a minute to scroll threw the tells, its a bit of a pain but so much better than hearing the ping 1000 times. There are ways to handle/deal with it other than relying on others to fix it for you is what i am getting at.

or the dev team can handle it since we pay them?

[odintius]

or the dev team can handle it since we pay them?

I fully support more options that dev to handle the problem, but for some like myself I found adding a channel as tells and turn off the general channel was my best option since I do majority of chat in fc or ls it's a very optional way for some to handle it. If people fall into my category were they don't use the tell system much really good way to control the spam, now if they revert back to shout and yells that be a different story Again I agree more could be done though.

[MaeIsMean]

Some of us actually talk to other players, and turning tells off or shuttling them off to some hidden tab to be ignored just isn't a good enough option.

There ARE things SE can do to make this game better, easy changes, but they don't, and it makes them look lazy and like they don't care. I get that in JP it's a totally different environment, so maybe they just don't understand how much of a hassle and/or annoyance it is so it doesn't get the priority it should, but how many posts, how many complaints, how many reports must they see before they understand that it IS a problem that greatly affects it's players negatively on an ongoing basis.

[JustPlainLucas]

LOL you folks are funny! There are steps you can take like customize your chat filters so you can't see tell's or hear them, they made it 100 times easier to b-list folks as well. And if you really wanted, run up to a RMT and commence trade with them a few times! Its funny to see folks cry about spam tells when they are easily avoidable vs crying about rage quiting in duties because there was a screw up, lmfao 1st world problems i guess!

It's better to not have the bull shit in the road than it is to avoid stepping in its bullshit.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

Last night over 4 hours of play I received 43 spams. The first arrived at the same second I logged in. All of them were variations of three spiels.

How about a customizable filter that I can add phrases to that will ban any tell with an of my banned phrases in it? This is tech that is 2002 era cutting edge.

If I could filter myself, I'd have picked a phrase in each of those three types of Spam I got and no more would come. Sure the spammers will rotate the text ever so often, but I can add new phrases faster then they change and get relative peace.

This is not a computer science problem that has not been solved dozens of times, Hell even forums like this have more robust anti-spam features.

I would think a single filter would catch a great amount of them, assuming it could take into account variables...

(any number)[comma or no comma]{three or four 0's}<space or no space>(k or K)

Realistically, most people would switch to m instead of k once they get into the millions range... but I believe every rmt I recall always used the k monkier.

This filter would trip on nearly every rmt tell I can recall seeing.
And doesn't have as much of a chance to trigger on normal conversations, due to the aforementioned normal people swapping to m when you get over 1,000k.

[Cakekizyy]

I would think a single filter would catch a great amount of them, assuming it could take into account variables...

(any number)[comma or no comma]{three or four 0's}<space or no space>(k or K)

Realistically, most people would switch to m instead of k once they get into the millions range... but I believe every rmt I recall always used the k monkier.

This filter would trip on nearly every rmt tell I can recall seeing.
And doesn't have as much of a chance to trigger on normal conversations, due to the aforementioned normal people swapping to m when you get over 1,000k.

Wouldn't take long for them to learn and get around a filter unless was constantly updated.

[odintius]

I just create another channel called it tells turn tells on and turn off the general channel tells that way I control when I seem them or a legit /tell from someone mostly when friends are on though works for me at least. /shrug

[MaeIsMean]

FYI, just turned busy off thinking the spammers have slowed down, and now my friends are logging in. It's been roughly 3 hours since i turned it on. Within a minute, I received 2 spam messages.