The emote spam issue

[Anathaer]

If they're following you around pressing the same one 20 times in a row that's definitely reportable. The same goes for NSFW custom emotes and racist custom emotes.

Not following around no, I would have taken this directly to support email then, rather than a topic in general discussion (which they point out as the place to post feedback/suggestions). I should remember this. I'm completely fine with people emoting, just there are plenty of times you just stand still and chat to friends and they spam one after another. Consideration of your fellow players goes a long way.

[Ririta]

When /happy motion doesn't gives me the desired attention, then I have no other option. Sorry for your chat but my emotes are more important.

[Faliandra]

I usually report them.

However, I usually send them a tell first kindly asking to turn off the emote texts.
But usually i get something along the lines of "lul cry moar plz,<insert random insult>"....so thats when I have a pretty good base to report them.
And I'll gladly do that....I mean,I asked nicely first.


I also do wanna receive normal emotes meant for me that I might miss otherwise, but emote-spamming is annoying af, and my Blacklist has a limit and I'd rather use it for people I SERIOUSLY wanna avoid for more severe reasons.



edit: small remark: i dont report for someone repeating 5-10 emotes in a row...more like when its 30+ withina few seconds.

[ZioSerpe]

Am I really the only one thinking this is insane?

[Ririta]

Am I really the only one thinking this is insane?

Stay here long enough and the insane will seem perfectly normal.

Reminds me of one dude complaining over the spell spam in Mor Dhona. Honestly I miss those times when people were more laid back and just did stuff spontaneously.

[Vorx]

I turned the emotion option in chat off a long time ago, in fact. This is what my chat is setup as in game:


I like a clean chat box and with this i don't have to deal with all the useless chat stuff. I don't even have system messages on, much less stuff and i can see what people are saying without having to scroll through other crap.

[Risvertasashi]

If someone is truly spamming, and I mean really over the top, chaining them for pages, then yes you can report them. And if they're following you around doing it that can easily give you a case for harassment.

That said... if you're offended by a just a couple here and there, there's a variety of ingame tools to deal with it. Using the chat filters above... and you have tabs, so you can still use a tab that has them enabled when you're with your friends or just away from big social hubs. If it's just the occasional person, blacklist is your friend.

[Kaethra]

I think many of us aren't really looking at the underlying cause. Being cute is one thing. Sometimes people think its a prank on whatever, or they think its clever, or they're just poking a friend, oblivious to the fact there are others seeing it too.

But then you have the ones. You all know who I'm talking about. The ones who do it strictly for attention. They are going out of their way to annoy every stranger around them. They want a response.. any response, good or bad. They suffer from some sort of attention withdrawal. What should be done about these people? They're actions are hurting themselves. They honestly have a problem. Thankfully there isn't many. But they still exist.

I'm not bringing this up because I believe SE needs to remove them. That doesn't fix the problem. They honestly need some sort of help. When I played another game a while back. One such individual was the general chat troll. He'd emote into the chat that he was making bodily functions. Would go on and on about how another game was better than said game the chat was apart of. As well as say other outrageous things as bait. I would say about half the people in the general chat put him on ignore. About a quarter took the bait and got trolled, while the last quarter simply watched with some mild amusement at best or simply tuned it out.

One evening for whatever reason, there just wasn't many online or simply less people were taking the bait. But not much if any chatter was going on and he tried to stir up some crazy discussion on whatever political issue was abound. No one responded. He tried to tone it down by making a game reference. Again, no one responded. He did one of his silly emotes in chat. No one responded. He went silent for a few minutes before going on this tirade about how no one is speaking. He got more desperate when again.. no one responded.

Most of his chatter after that was incoherent and eventually he logged off. Truth be told. I wasn't sure if I'd see him online again. And there wouldn't be any way to tell if he hurt himself or another. That was a bit scary, and mostly sad to think about.

How many people out there are like that? Its just weird and sad to say the least. And unfortunately no solution in sight. Pretty much ignore them and hope they don't hurt themselves.

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.

I actually go to an innroom to do this. Just so I don't spam others.

[Mrfox0707]

Meh....
/em waves hand in "move along" motion.

[Wobi]

I just /blacklist anyone that emote spams, I don't need those kind of people in my life. Let's talk about bigger issues like Ring of Thorns, that's roughly 100x more annoying if you play with the sound on.