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Shadowed1

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Post Sat May 28, 2011 12:01 am

Constant spammers-hear me out

Hey--
As we all know, the newer servers are being constantly barraged by spammers, which lags servers tremendously and also just makes the game unpleasant. Few (possible) solutions:

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2. An auto-mute tool that will automatically mute any player who either (a) posts the same message multiple times in a certain amount of time, or (b) posts messages over a certain line length. Honestly, this should be quite easy to program and activate in-game, and could greatly cut down on spam.

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4. Before opening a server, have two previous experts ready to come into said server temporarily. These experts should have higher amounts of mutes to take care of spammers, and should be there until the server is ready to elect their own experts, at which time they could leave, making their main purpose to manage chat. I believe Nathan made a suggestion about having pairs of rotating experts who will be at servers for a month, then move on to the latest open one. (3-4 pairs) but I can't find the exact thread.

Anyways, thanks for reading. Hope something could be done, as pretty much all of these ideas are rather easy to accomplish. Any constructive feedback would be much appreciated.

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Post Sat May 28, 2011 12:26 am

Re: Constant spammers-hear me out

Shadowed1 wrote:4. Before opening a server, have two previous experts ready to come into said server temporarily. These experts should have higher amounts of mutes to take care of spammers, and should be there until the server is ready to elect their own experts, at which time they could leave, making their main purpose to manage chat.

Agreed. Spam is always horrible on new servers. :/
for the device ban, I am pretty sure they do that but hackers find a way around it (don't take this as a fact as I'm not sure)
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Shadowed1

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Post Sat May 28, 2011 12:28 am

Re: Constant spammers-hear me out

Haha, I just logged on s80. They've upgraded to 3-4 spammers at a time o.O

And I remember hearing about a case where support tracked a Udid and blocked it, although this may be able to be avoided...
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Post Sat May 28, 2011 12:43 am

Re: Constant spammers-hear me out

On s78 there were 4 ha's spamming at once and I had 9 ha's on my block list when I quit that account so... -.-.. :/
two experts were moved onto my server, not sure when it was but no suitable experts were ready at the time, they still moderate the server (which is nice)
just saying that if there are no suitable experts than suitable ones from different servers are moved in
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Post Sat May 28, 2011 12:47 am

Re: Constant spammers-hear me out

Yeah, s80 has 6-7 spammers currently. A few roving pairs of experts on each new server is useful...It's quite a deterrent to new players.
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Post Sat May 28, 2011 12:53 am

Re: Constant spammers-hear me out

Yes server 80 has been hit hard. They are still making new acciunts to spam and my block list has 10 or so.
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Shadowed1

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Post Sat May 28, 2011 12:54 am

Re: Constant spammers-hear me out

Yup. It's crazy..few people attempt to chat but it's futile...I think instead of opening new servers continually something should be implemented first..
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Post Sat May 28, 2011 1:31 am

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Lol I chat but its kinda slow but I like chatting so I'm patient with it.
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Post Sat May 28, 2011 1:33 am

Re: Constant spammers-hear me out

It's insane. Upgrading is (for most players) at a standstill and chat is deterring both new players and some people who are vets..
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Post Sat May 28, 2011 2:06 am

Re: Constant spammers-hear me out

1. it is easier for them to change udid then ip.....
2. automatic mutes are a bad idea, they would mess a lot of people up and every spam is a new account.
3. support is not always a good idea, they are on to irritate staff, not you really.
4. agree strongly
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