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paradice89
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So as the title says its about the silence feature when you are marked as a spammer and silenced for 24 hours. I posted a list of items in zone chat that i wanted to sell twice in about 30 seconds or so and am now silenced for 24 hours. i was just wondering if this happens to anybody else or the system behind it, for instance do a set amount of people have to flag u as spamming or is it just when one person flags u as spamming.
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Either the system needs tweaking, or your list was really long, IN CAPS, or repeated enough that you hacked off a reasonable proportion of the playerbase.
Working as intended. The community has told you they regard this as spamming. Now you can decide; do you wish to communicate with the community in a manner they collectively find acceptable, or do you wish to keep doing the same thing and periodically getting 24 hour chat silences?
The ball is in your court.
That's certainly cynical, at the least. I'm in a guild. The first thing I do after hitting L to turn off the search function that pops up when I log in is switch to my self made Guild channel. I have just effectively ignored the entirety of Zone chat, w/out reporting/ignoring a single player. I don't have to look at who's selling what, who's looking for what group with or without noobs, etc etc. It's off. I sure don't have to start recruiting guild members to ignore/report people in Zone.
It's working fine. We're reclaiming Chat. FYI it takes 20 people to get you muted for spam, so think of it as democracy in action.
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Which has been annoyingly down for days. Sorry to burst your bubble, but people just wanna sell their goods. With no /trade channel, you get spammed with people bartering their goods in /zone.
Hopefully, this ends today
Stonings and public beatings work the same way. A bunch of people decide they don’t like you for whatever reason and suddenly you become expendable.
You shouldn’t think of Zone as a chat channel. Think of it as high school without teachers. Would you come to high school and annoy everyone in the halls, yell at people in the lunch room and shove stuff in people’s faces? Especially without teachers, the people are going to get together and beat you.
If you want to be in chat you have to earn the privilege, you have to get in with the cool kids, you have to be funny or witty or entertaining in some way. You need some friends, a clique, a crew. If you are naturally annoying, then Cryptic feels you should be punished. If you want a channel for trade but find there isn’t one, well you should be punished. Want a LFG channel? Nope, you get punished.
So it doesn’t matter what you put in Zone, spam, not spam, doesn’t matter. Just ask yourself if people will find it interesting and cool or will they find it annoying or hard to follow. If it is the latter then you will get silenced, whatever you put there. They call it “taking chat back” but what they mean is that you better chat like they do or you are out.
And don’t worry for the gold spammers. They still get to do their thing; its only actual players that get ground down.
Beating up nerds and geeks and sending them home.
WAI.
And yes: you ARE spamming when advertising stuff to sell in open zone chat.
Just kidding of course, but I can't see why it can't happen.
Until the geeks start making turkey bombs. A black eye heals in a week. That smell aint comin off them car seats son.
EXAMPLE: 1 NOT SPAMMING:
person 1 talks
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person 1 talks
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person 1 talks
EXAMPLE: 2 SPAMMING:
person 1 talks
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-person 1 talks
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-person 1 talks
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-person 1 talks
The - in between are other people talking, so example 1 is not spamming example 2 is.
P.S if someone presses ignore on someone it should not be something that will make the person flag that other person, pressing ignore should be just that ignore. If someone says something all you have to do is press ignore, dont act like your a righteous person.
I dont agree. It doesnt have to do with the number of people between each time the spammer pushed the button to send their mesage again. It has to do with timeframe. All it takes is 7 people in each zone selling stuff in your first example to take over zone chat completely.
I'm sure glad that my ISP doesn't subscribe to this notion of SPAM, instead of the definition of unsolicited mail/messages.
SPAM is a delicious lunchmeat. Spam is unusual proliferation of unwanted and often irrelevant content.
~winks~
Heh, Spam is kinda nasty for a lunchmeat, bleh. It is pretty good with eggs though.:rolleyes:
Woohoo! until there is an auction tab, I am very glad you were locked out. Use the AH, i don't care about your warez.
The potential for abuse is largely theoretical. The vast majority of people who get chat banned either spammed or were obnoxious enough for a sufficient number of other players hitting the report spam or ignore option. Dozens of people shouldn't all have to ignore one person who spams or is abusive. That would just allow them to annoy a maximum of other players and the chat would be worse than now. It's a fairly efficient way of discouraging spamming and it quickly drives the lesson home.
GMs individually looking into ALL spam reports, instead of those who are supposedly unjustified, isn't really an economically viable option. You would need several people who do this as a full time job.