tired of thiese spammers

arcanjo86 · October 2015

can u get rid of these players

arcanjo86 · October 2015

i cant put a picture of it, how do i do that

torontodave · October 2015

goto imgur.com and upload it there

then use the url here

mynaam · October 2015

You are not allowed to put a picture it would count as player shaming.

Just report it through help.

torontodave · October 2015

Yep. that's spam.

and we've been asking them to ban spam bots for years.

It's an "active issue" that they're "always working on" ...

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arcanjo86 · October 2015

reporting doesnt help, this isnt shaming, he is problably not a player, just someone selling stuff and stoling money from the game, so guys start showing it everywere, because reporting as spam isnt doing anything

arcanjo86 · October 2015

if i can i will startt posting images like this everywere #strumslinger do something about it, i prefer players spaming lfg then this

wyckedstudios · October 2015

arcanjo86 said:
reporting doesnt help, this isnt shaming, he is problably not a player, just someone selling stuff and stoling money from the game, so guys start showing it everywere, because reporting as spam isnt doing anything

Yes, he is a bot spammer...but the rules about naming and shaming apply anyway, and if you do insist on "showing it everywhere" be prepared to get muted...or worse.

That being said....I find the "Friend Request" spammers far more annoying. I can turn off chat channels without disrupting actual gameplay... having Friend Requests pop up constantly FORCES me to go "Invisible" as they seem to magically appear, even when "Visible only to Friends", usually during the most inopportune times.

kreatyve · October 2015

@arcanjo86, I had to remove the image due to our rules about naming and shaming. This is not the place to report such things. When you see them spamming, right click on their name, and click on "Report Spam". Urge your friends to do the same, as the more reports that customer service gets about just one account, the faster they will act on it. Another reason that the picture got removed was because it had the spammy link in it. By showing that picture, you are just helping them advertise it. Reporting them in game DOES work, it does take time though, and it's an uphill battle.

yokki1 · October 2015

if it does work reporting them in game how come there are lvl 50+ spam bots

regenerde · October 2015

As mentioned many times before, it would help, if the Devs could upgrade the existing profanity filter to a real spam filter, that players could fill with their own keywords.

The goldsellers can create an unlimited amount of accounts, level them automatically to 15, send them to PE, advertise, and even if the accounts get silenced, they can still be used for farming...
Rinse and repeat, ad nauseam.

But that could change, with an editable spam filter.

For example, the standard message with the string of words "cheap, fast, AD, USD" could be blocked by an editable spam filter right away, and even if they change it to something else, it would only take a moment for the players to adjust their spam filter again.

This might go back and forth for a while, but there is only a limited amount of words to descripe their services, before the message itself becomes unreadable...

Edit:
Last but not least, it would be nice to get a button to clear the ignore list with one click... because it feels like it's slowing down the game client, if you have enough entries in there.
And there is no reason for keeping all the old goldseller accounts on ignore, since they create and use them only once for the spam.

pricetagcloud · October 2015

regenerde said:
As mentioned many times before, it would help, if the Devs could upgrade the existing profanity filter to a real spam filter, that players could fill with their own keywords.

The goldsellers can create an unlimited amount of accounts, level them automatically to 15, send them to PE, advertise, and even if the accounts get silenced, they can still be used for farming...
Rinse and repeat, ad nauseam.

But that could change, with an editable spam filter.

For example, the standard message with the string of words "cheap, fast, AD, USD" could be blocked by an editable spam filter right away, and even if they change it to something else, it would only take a moment for the players to adjust their spam filter again.

This might go back and forth for a while, but there is only a limited amount of words to descripe their services, before the message itself becomes unreadable...

This is a great idea! Shouldn't take too much time to code either!

goldmoon · October 2015

Same suggestions about chat filters have been made years ago

What i saw in recent changes

Hands are tied when it comes to really hurting bots, but suddenly have enough man power to nerf stuffs in game

kreatyve · October 2015

goldmoon#5670 said:
Same suggestions about chat filters have been made years ago

What i saw in recent changes

Hands are tied when it comes to really hurting bots, but suddenly have enough man power to nerf stuffs in game

Completely different teams of people who do completely different stuff. Let me put this in perspective for you. For every bot or gold spammer that Customer Service manages to ban from the game, 3 more gold spammer accounts get made. When they attempted to auto-ban the spammers on Xbox, something in the code messed up and a whole lot of innocent players got auto-banned, and it was a huge mess.

regenerde · October 2015

Well, could you please try to pass the idea to the Devs?
Or ask the Devs, what they plan on doing against the increased spam?

kreatyve · October 2015

regenerde said:
Well, could you please try to pass the idea to the Devs?
Or ask the Devs, what they plan on doing against the increased spam?

I'll talk to @strumslinger about it and see if he can pass it along to the devs.

xgrandz02 · October 2015

Goldsellers now also Buying stuff from game for cash., Enchants/AD etc. Löööl

fogtripper · October 2015

kreatyve said:
@arcanjo86, I had to remove the image due to our rules about naming and shaming. This is not the place to report such things. When you see them spamming, right click on their name, and click on "Report Spam". Urge your friends to do the same, as the more reports that customer service gets about just one account, the faster they will act on it.

After a certain number of reports it should be automatic, full stop. Look, we have one single server. Is it really that difficult to police?

kreatyve said:
When they attempted to auto-ban the spammers on Xbox, something in the code messed up and a whole lot of innocent players got auto-banned, and it was a huge mess.

It should be auto-mute and auto-mute friend requests. Those could be reversed, which would be less of a hassle for customer service than playing whack-a-spammer.

arcanjo86 · October 2015

kreatyve said:
@arcanjo86, I had to remove the image due to our rules about naming and shaming. This is not the place to report such things. When you see them spamming, right click on their name, and click on "Report Spam". Urge your friends to do the same, as the more reports that customer service gets about just one account, the faster they will act on it. Another reason that the picture got removed was because it had the spammy link in it. By showing that picture, you are just helping them advertise it. Reporting them in game DOES work, it does take time though, and it's an uphill battle.

this is outaraged how can u guys (devs) tolerate this "players" to hide themselves behind player shamming, its obvious that they arent players, or most surely that no one cares about kicking them, so to be conclusive u guys are aware of this but let them do it anyway, if it doesnt work here it works on imggur, u say it takes time, lol, do u need their names with handlers to show as proof? ican do that, when players spam those websites in code message make feel

about you guys, let them still those packs of dragonborn and etc, and sometimes may be scams to take players money and shame the games name, if i have any more stuff to say i will post again, this is one of milions problems in game

yokki1 · October 2015

arcanjo86 said:

kreatyve said:
@arcanjo86, I had to remove the image due to our rules about naming and shaming. This is not the place to report such things. When you see them spamming, right click on their name, and click on "Report Spam". Urge your friends to do the same, as the more reports that customer service gets about just one account, the faster they will act on it. Another reason that the picture got removed was because it had the spammy link in it. By showing that picture, you are just helping them advertise it. Reporting them in game DOES work, it does take time though, and it's an uphill battle.
this is outaraged how can u guys (devs) tolerate this "players" to hide themselves behind player shamming, its obvious that they arent players, or most surely that no one cares about kicking them, so to be conclusive u guys are aware of this but let them do it anyway, if it doesnt work here it works on imggur, u say it takes time, lol, do u need their names with handlers to show as proof? ican do that, when players spam those websites in code message make feel about you guys, let them still those packs of dragonborn and etc, and sometimes may be scams to take players money and shame the games name, if i have any more stuff to say i will post again, this is one of milions problems in game

been like that since the beginning. seen spam bots level 50+ . no point reporting them or putting them in ignore list since nothing is done for it. allowing a spam bot to reach 50 means there is no punishment for them since they are spamming from the moment they can reach PE.

bijik · October 2015

Just make it so you can’t talk public before you actual are max level, use the report button for then people not talk nice or spam and have a moderator ban offence, did work like a charm in linage 1 I played some 10 year ago, you was always careful not to write anything bad since the moderator actual ban you from chat if you did.

tired of thiese spammers

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