Are 15 liners FC recruitment spams generally accepted in FF?

[Astarift]

If someone is posting a block of text once an hour I don't think that's regarded as "spam". You can easily talk in between their posts and it wouldn't push anything off your text that you couldn't easily just scroll up a little to catch (actual spam makes this difficult since the chat scrolls by so fast constantly).

That's probably why your GM reports aren't doing anything, the GM's don't consider it spam. Since it's the same person can't you blacklist them?

This is a 15 line of chat, theres a cooldown between how long you can send a message in /shout(1 or 2 seconds), so this is a spam that last for 15-30 seconds, which can clearly be distruptive in chat isnt it? Black listing is a solution, but my concern is that is this a violation of ToS and therefore punishable for repeated offense/spam?

[Krotoan]

This is a 15 line of chat, theres a cooldown between how long you can send a message in /shout(1 or 2 seconds), so this is a spam that last for 15-30 seconds, which can clearly be distruptive in chat isnt it? Black listing is a solution, but my concern is that is this a violation of ToS and therefore punishable for repeated offense/spam?

I guess I can see why it's somewhat annoying if this is literally 15 separate shouts of advertising their FC. But It's also one person you can ignore and never have to deal with again. Whether or not they are breaking TOS isn't really the players concern, we aren't the police and shouldn't be acting as such. Reporting people is for notifying GM's of conduct that affects you (sometimes indirectly), not for tattletale-ing. Spamming in and of itself is usually a repetitive message over and over again, not one large message every hour. If the text isn't repeating quickly and the entire message is spaced out reasonably (I think an hour is reasonable).. then there's really no rules being broken. They are saying a long thing ONCE every hour.

Again if you've reported it multiple times yet the GM's close the tickets and ignore it.. they're probably fine.

[hagare]

This is a 15 line of chat, theres a cooldown between how long you can send a message in /shout(1 or 2 seconds), so this is a spam that last for 15-30 seconds, which can clearly be distruptive in chat isnt it? Black listing is a solution, but my concern is that is this a violation of ToS and therefore punishable for repeated offense/spam?

that's 30 seconds every hour.
I don't think it would be considered spam

[Iscah]

that's 30 seconds every hour.
I don't think it would be considered spam

It sounds like spam to me.

I can't read Japanese so I don't know what they're saying, but the average FC recruitment ad only takes up one line of a macro, maybe two or three at most. What do they need to say that is so un-succinct and yet necessary to send to everyone in the zone?

[hagare]

It sounds like spam to me.

I can't read Japanese so I don't know what they're saying, but the average FC recruitment ad only takes up one line of a macro, maybe two or three at most. What do they need to say that is so un-succinct and yet necessary to send to everyone in the zone?

that's an interesting take. I don't understand it so it's spam xD
although it's only 1/120th of an hour.
No wonder gaijins have a bad name xD

[Iscah]

that's an interesting take. I don't understand it so it's spam xD
although it's only 1/120th of an hour.
No wonder gaijins have a bad name xD

That is not what I said.

The basic premise of a 15-line macro sounds like spam, and I can't imagine what they would need to say in it, BUT my inability to read Japanese means I cannot make a definitive judgement on what they are writing as shown in the screenshot.

I would find it equally spammy regardless of what language it is written in. Possibly more annoying in English as I'd be seeing the same readable text over and over, instead of the visual "white noise" of unfamiliar symbols.

[hagare]

That is not what I said.

The basic premise of a 15-line macro sounds like spam, and I can't imagine what they would need to say in it, BUT my inability to read Japanese means I cannot make a definitive judgement on what they are writing as shown in the screenshot.

I would find it equally spammy regardless of what language it is written in. Possibly more annoying in English as I'd be seeing the same readable text over and over, instead of the visual "white noise" of unfamiliar symbols.

Is your chat tab so barren nothing happens in one hour after the shout that you only sees the shout over and over again?
change tabs?
it just seems kind of like an over reaction.
And if you wanna try to understand it, you can always google translate it. Granted, might not give the best translation. but eh

[Astarift]

that's an interesting take. I don't understand it so it's spam xD
although it's only 1/120th of an hour.
No wonder gaijins have a bad name xD

I dont think the focus here is not understanding so its a spam, its a 15 liner /shout macro spam that floods your chat so its a spam. Also having a 15 liner as a FC recruitment? You can actually post your FC recruitment in lodestone website by the way, thats the purpose of the community finder there
Stating that the spam only happens 1/120th of an hour is a weak argument in terms of it not being a spam, when the focus here is that it whenever he posts the macro, its floods my chat and disrupts the chatting experience of anyone in range of the shout
Noting gaijins having a bad name is pure irony here and totally derailing from the discussion

Is your chat tab so barren nothing happens in one hour after the shout that you only sees the shout over and over again?
change tabs?
it just seems kind of like an over reaction.
And if you wanna try to understand it, you can always google translate it. Granted, might not give the best translation. but eh

Likewise, putting xenophobia in an discussion when the focus was on spam is definitely overreacting

[hagare]

I dont think the focus here is not understanding so its a spam, its a 15 liner /shout macro spam that floods your chat so its a spam. Also having a 15 liner as a FC recruitment? You can actually post your FC recruitment in lodestone website by the way, thats the purpose of the community finder there
Stating that the spam only happens 1/120th of an hour is a weak argument in terms of it not being a spam, when the focus here is that it whenever he posts the macro, its floods my chat and disrupts the chatting experience of anyone in range of the shout
Noting gaijins having a bad name is pure irony here and totally derailing from the discussion

hey if you think it's a spam. Fine.

I think it's 30 seconds out of a whole hour.
if it was every 5 minutes, I'd block him

[Knot_D]

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Consider take aside the xenophobia off this game please, thank you