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WTB Gold Spam Filter that works!!!!!
lunaeclipse173
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The title of the thread says it all.
This game is great and all, but it really needs a gold spam filter that works other then relying on you hitting the report spam button.
Surely the programmers can program a simple pattern match that checks messages before they are posted for patterns that are flagged as spam. It would also have to check messages by removing extra spaces that the gold spammers put in their messages to bypass filters, but that shouldn't be too hard, remove all the spaces from a message and then look for character combinations like .com or *******.
Common guys, this is a great game, but you are going to lose players by the bus load if they have to continue dealing with the sheer quantity of gold selling spam that is in the game now. After playing since open beta, I have found that my best skill in the game is not rotations, powers, feats or GS, its how fast I can press the Report Spam button, and that's just sad.
*Edit* I just noticed the forum filters gold selling website names, yet the game can't, that is so sad.
This game is great and all, but it really needs a gold spam filter that works other then relying on you hitting the report spam button.
Surely the programmers can program a simple pattern match that checks messages before they are posted for patterns that are flagged as spam. It would also have to check messages by removing extra spaces that the gold spammers put in their messages to bypass filters, but that shouldn't be too hard, remove all the spaces from a message and then look for character combinations like .com or *******.
Common guys, this is a great game, but you are going to lose players by the bus load if they have to continue dealing with the sheer quantity of gold selling spam that is in the game now. After playing since open beta, I have found that my best skill in the game is not rotations, powers, feats or GS, its how fast I can press the Report Spam button, and that's just sad.
*Edit* I just noticed the forum filters gold selling website names, yet the game can't, that is so sad.
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This does raise the question 'is there an actual limit to the ignore list?' I would like to know this if anyone knows, I rather not run into it.
On Topic: I thought there was already a spam filter (not allow over X amount of the same user's messages per Y amount of time)? Perhaps an idea to lower the Y?
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I believe the cap is 500 ignores.
you will still be able to see the /lfg /trade /party and guild zone.
This is what i do when im on the city.
I have been messing with Gold Spammers since WoW and APB. In APB you can bust them like criminals, hanfd cuff them and send them a PM saying "GET A LEFT"!
or some sorta requirement to use zone chat.
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The cap is far larger than 500. Weeks ago I did a rough count of my ignore list (you can access it through social button or o) and I had over 2000 on my list. Pretty sure by now I have well over 2500. I have no clue if there is a limit tho.
That would be horrible. It would absolutely cripple new players. And do little to nothing to the spammers. They already mass rapid level all the alts they need to farm cash. They have the means and resources to level at rates normal players can only dream of. So what might be an barrier to most players will take but a few hours for them.
Here. Scarlet Blade does that with megaphone (you should in all areas) you still get occasional spam, but not as much.
but as for WTB:a way to block gold spammers? good luck, there are many ways to do it, but not many are 100% effective or even 50% (IMO)
filters? there are so many ways to get around it. One of the ways is spelling things differently
timer? what if you type fast and saying different things in a row? (I do that) and you can get occasional accidental ban that way
player voting - we learn that is not a good way (STO does this and I do believe NW does it)
Censorship - It is funny how censorship block out even legit words like ******sin.
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"Great men are almost always bad men."
“If God is all-powerful He cannot be good, if God is good He cannot be all-powerful!”
Since that would just hurt actual players and have no effect on the spammers who use bots, I really hope they never do that.
Each gold spam company probly makes 20,000 different accounts. Its a free to play game it doesnt cost anything to make an account. They have people working all day long making accounts that is all they do and lvl them to get to PE. They even buy leadership accounts that have leadership lvl to farm AD with them. They have people working all day just loggin in and out of accounts farming AD with leadership. YOu will never ever ever controll them.
You what someone to sit down and write a script so you don't have to use "Right click, report spam" You lazy prat, go get your mummy to play for you so you don't have to over do it. Idiot!
you are spot on....
You cant even report them for spam now. They logg off now right after message. I have seen a gold spammer message from the same bot over 5 times in a 24 hour period. So they are not getting reported for spam cause they are offline. I assume that is what they are doing.
I think it funny that the Chinese are engaging in capitalism. Adjusting rates, staying competitive etc etc..
Go play the GOLD SPAM foundry. You will laugh, you will cry, and the Gold Spammer bots will DIE!
BTW I think a Gold Spammer is in my guild. I will explain later...
Fact is people are smart and will find a way no matter how good the filter. Computers are limited to set rules that simpl cant cope.
Lately I see them using all kinds of crazy foreign characters, brackets and slashes - nothing near correct spelling or even english lettering, yet I can still fully understand there url.
It's simply a battle the devs cant win. The best they can do is give us good tools to help us ignore it.
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Star trek online and Neverwinter are the same game mechanics so it should not be that hard to add from sto to neverwinter.
If I was one of the game programmers, I personally would have a hard time not to look a little bit inside the spamming PCs
...And "Format c:" does a pretty good job of delaying the next spam message
Hehe...
But seriously. You have to be level 12 or something to send a personal message. But any person can spam the whole zone as level 4. How does that add up?
Edit:
Adding credit card verification for each account would help a lot. Let people pay 1 cent to start playing.
It would make it much easier identifying spammers and would stop them from making 1000 accounts.
There is no spam in STO because the gold sellers arn't selling there. It has nothing at all to do with filters and setting. In fact, NW STARTED with the same filters and settings from CO and STO and have had to steadily improve it from there. I dont honestly think you want to go back to what it was originally.