The emote spam issue

[Nezerius]

Why do *I* have to rework my chat or even turn off emotes completely,when I *only* want spammers to stop spamming when all it takes for the spammers to uncheck that emote text box?

If the BL was endless, I'd take the suggestion to BL everyone doing that up in a heartbeat. But as its limited, I'd rather save that method for more severe reasons.

You're making it sound like there's gonna be over 200 players near you, excessively spamming emotes, at any given time. The only place where that'll happen is during that one GATE in the Gold Saucer.

So you're complaining about someone not opening their emote list to uncheck a box, when it's just as easy to right-click a name and click add to blacklist. Unless you somehow managed to already get 200 of these 'severe cases' on the list, which I'd find surprising.

[QuinRaines]

Why do *I* have to rework my chat or even turn off emotes completely,when I *only* want spammers to stop spamming when all it takes for the spammers to uncheck that emote text box?

Because you're the one complaining about it, if you want it to stop there's easy ways to deal with it rather than mindlessly complaining as already detailed in the thread.

[Evumeimei]

Like... how often does this even occur? I barely see emote chat spam anywhere I go. It's also easy enough to avoid it if it's bothering you (leave the area, turn of emote chat, etc...). I guess it also depends what you qualify as spam. Two friends using different emotes on each other, possibly many in a row, isn't necessarily spam so much as them having fun. Spam would be if they are using the same emote over and over and over again (and even then it could be fun to them and not to you). I agree that people should turn off the text messages for emotes if they plan to use a lot at once. But as long as the spam isn't cutting into chat I honestly don't care if people are spamming emotes. It's easy to ignore/tune-out. Much harder to ignore Holy and Ring of Thorns spammers.

[matteoxyz]

Is it really that much of a problem if someone presses an emote a few times? I haven't seen anyone going too excessive with it:

[RoseBnargin]

I'm also kinda sick and tired of these little bi*ch ass Lalafell spamming emotes all day long They are literally trying to sound it like s*x. Too bad i/we cant disable emotes for specific people Or even better: Remove them compeletly or make them invisible or something.

[LaylaTsarra]

I'm also kinda sick and tired of these little bi*ch ass Lalafell spamming emotes all day long They are literally trying to sound it like s*x. Too bad i/we cant disable emotes for specific people

Won't blacklisting hide their emotes?

[RosaLunaCelestia]

Won't blacklisting hide their emotes?

Same if u blacklist people you still receive their emotes.

[RoseBnargin]

Won't blacklisting hide their emotes?

I doesnt for me...i blocked about 15 people and i can still hear them moaning xD

[alimdia]

Go to your emotes tab, pick any emotes, keep hitting it as fast as you can for 5 mins straight, look at your chat log and tell me again that's "freedom of expression", it's literally no different from RMT bot spam.

Come on people, social rules aren't hard to follow, there's no need to go out of your way to inconvenience everyone else around you, this isn't a single player game, if you want to spam emotes turn the text off.

[Faliandra]

Go to your emotes tab, pick any emotes, keep hitting it as fast as you can for 5 mins straight, look at your chat log and tell me again that's "freedom of expression", it's literally no different from RMT bot spam.

Come on people, social rules aren't hard to follow, there's no need to go out of your way to inconvenience everyone else around you, this isn't a single player game, if you want to spam emotes turn the text off.

You...Thank you. I like how you think.

Guess we cant do anything about those attention beggars except muting the sound, biting our ears off or scratching our eyes out.

report them,simple as that.

Some people NEED to learn the hard way, apparently.