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  1. #21
    Player
    Vorx's Avatar
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    Vorx Dargo
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    Lamia
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    Red Mage Lv 70
    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.
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  2. #22
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    Risvertasashi's Avatar
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    Makani Risvertasashi
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    Ultros
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    Conjurer Lv 50
    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.
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  3. #23
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    Kaethra's Avatar
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    Kaethra Tatrinae
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    Leviathan
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    Conjurer Lv 70
    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.

    Quote Originally Posted by Makarrov View Post
    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.
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  4. #24
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    Ririta's Avatar
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    Ririta Rita
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    Behemoth
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    Thaumaturge Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by ZioSerpe View Post
    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.
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  5. #25
    Player Masekase_Hurricane's Avatar
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    Masekase Hurricane
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    Louisoix
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anathaer View Post
    Not the spam I'm talking about. It is to fast in a row. No RP uses that much emotes, that fast. Ye I could move a few feet away but in the time it takes me to get out of 'chatrange', often my chat with friends has already been flooded away. I really don't see what the problem is to add a chat delay. It wouldn't obstruct the people that use them for true RP or for social movements in chat, but it would get rid of the flooding ones. We should not have to switch tabs when a delay is easily added (and used by many other MMO already) It is not like I am asking them to perform a miracle on RMT spammers (who populate my blacklist btw, because they aren't dealt with. Sadly blacklist has a maximum)
    Why add another system in though when three systems are in place to deal with it blacklist,turn off emotes in a chat tab or actually move away. As for having a delay that is just daft if someone is roleplaying. i.e player 1 waves for hello, second player responds with wave and then tells a joke, player 1 now has two wait 4 more seconds to use laugh. Now I don't Rp and sometimes find them annoying but they do.

    Now lets say a few players decide to be annoying and create macros using emotes to spam, even with the delay it will still look like mass spam if multiple people do it at the same time. So the problem is still not sorted.
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  6. #26
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    Mrfox0707's Avatar
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    Kamino Akari
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    Hyperion
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    Conjurer Lv 60
    Meh....
    /em waves hand in "move along" motion.
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  7. #27
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    Wobi's Avatar
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    Aria Erabith
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    Malboro
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    Miner Lv 100
    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.
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    Just your friendly neighborhood elezen

  8. #28
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    Schark's Avatar
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    Sylvonia Schark
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    Ultros
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    Red Mage Lv 70
    You can count me as another passenger on the hate train. I'm not as bothered by the text as I am the character sounds repeating over and over again. I can't remember if blacklisting turns that off as well, though. I just can't see any reason, even RP, for spamming an emote beyond wanting to be obnoxious.
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  9. #29
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    Neophyte's Avatar
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    Mim Silmaril
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    Phoenix
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    Summoner Lv 90
    Why even use only one chatbox at the same time? One for chat (say, group, ls, etc) and one for system/loot/emote/etc. messages.
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  10. #30
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    Kacho_Nacho's Avatar
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    Kacho Nacho
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    Coeurl
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    White Mage Lv 99
    Quote Originally Posted by ZioSerpe View Post
    Are you seriously complaining about people using emotes?
    He's complaining about people spamming emotes not people using emotes. Still, the blacklist option is already there. We really don't need anything else.
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    Last edited by Kacho_Nacho; 04-13-2017 at 02:52 PM.

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