Is it possible to make for Icecrowns generald channels /1(General) and /2(Trade) a simmilar spam prohibition like on global which is around 45 seconds, maybe to lower this one to like 30 seconds? The literal spam is now unbearable, global was transferred to /1 and /2.
Please, I know some of you will say simply quit that channel, I know that, that's why I'm making a suggestion and not complain on icecrown channel.
Share your thoughts, best regards
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Member
Talk penalty for general channels on Icecrown
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Member
believe it or not, people will just use two or more accounts to engage their spam and override the limit. Yes, some people actually dedicate their time to stupidity.
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Member
I play on Lordaeron, and we actually starting to have similar issue now. Guild adverts are being spammed by multiple people with the use of addons. I've even posted some screenshots where you can see the identical order of all the spams. I just block all of them. I know, this isn't a solution, given if you are to join pug raids.
I really hope Warmane will look closely into the issue. Introduce 40s-60s spam prevention on all public channels, and hand out mutes if staff can clearly see that it is 2-3 people from the SAME raid advertising their raid or a guild.
There is no need for 5 people from 1 guild spam channel that they are recruiting. There is no need for RL and x2 Assists to spam RS25HC run either.
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Legendary Weaponsmith
the problem is not just the frequency of messages, but the sheer ammount of them. when you have 6k+ people with just 1 or 2 channels to get the message across you can expect AT LEAST 100 messages per minute which is more than1.5 mesages per second. i dont know how to adress this problem but having restriction on channels wont make it better. on the contrary, it could make it worse since, as was said above, some people can bypass the "1 min mute" mechanic and flood the channel anyway
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Forum Veteran
I don't know which Icecrown you mean, but I have never seen this, only what you'd expect on chat channels.
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Member
What about to simply make the cd from global which is 45 seconds, shared with global/1(general) and 2(trade), i don't see a problem in that, why would someone need to spam more in other channels then in one unique, well i just mean, since global got the 45 seconds penalty, general and trade became the new global channels, maybe that would be fine for the anti-spam company, a shared 45 sec cd on all 3 channels, so one can chose where to spam every now and then?
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Legendary Weaponsmith
you know, this is actually a good idea on how to deal with this problem. thumbs up from me!
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Member
There are other channels but nobody use them. There is guild recruitment channel, who uses them? no one. There is LFG channel, who uses them? no one. Basically people prefer TRADE because its sync across capitals and GLOBAL because it sends message to everyone out there regardless of location.
Basically, there has to be a way to force guild recruiters to use a different channel other than global and trade because they spam more than anyone else for no reason. If they advertised reasonably, it wouldn't have been an issue. Have you seen Fade's leader? its a horde guild here in icecrown. The leader made a toon on alliance and put it on /AFK and its spamming 24/7 on trade and global to recruit people from alliance to move into horde, absolute craziness.
So..
1- Force guild recruiters to use appropriate channel.
2- limit messages to 45 sec per message on global channel.
Just my opinion...
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Member
How would you "force" recruiters to use the appropriate channel?
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Moderator
Suggested multiple times, in various forms, always denied.
People go for whatever channel will get them visibility. If multiple channels will give them that, they will use them all, not a "proper" one. As players pointed out already, timers would just make spammers login multiple accounts to do it, plus the different people advertising every 45 seconds would still make the channel spammed anyway. We don't have the staff to monitor and control it, nor the interest in hiring more personal just to deal with that ("half-GM trusted players" doing it is a no as well).
