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I understand why people want to spam trade offers and guild recruitment in chat, but it is getting to the point where people are getting super annoyed by it. So please vote for a chat you would like to see as the trade/guild chat. Where this stuff can be spammed, and it will make global-1 more enjoyable.
For info on how to change chats please use the /help command while in game for more information.
I think this is great and all but people won't go there because its not obvious as in a tabbed chat. While yes you can do /joinchat global-7 many people are too lazy or won't do it.. I would like to suggest to make it a tab if possible. BTW this issue is not secluded to global-1, it occurs in help tab a lot, and people in help do tell others to not advertise in help tab. However we get people who get upset when we ask them to follow the rules regarding this. Thanks for listening - Essense
Agreed. Unless it's a tab the masses won't join another channel to advertise their wares
no one goes to global-(2-9), and therefore no one reads what gets posted there.
the people spamming their buy/sell lists are looking for the largest volume of readers possible, which will pretty much always be global-1. If there were a separate tab specifically for trading chat, I'm sure it would get used frequently, but in about 50% of cases i suspect that people would simply be pasting their spam in that tab AS WELL AS global-1. It's a nice thought and all, but i see no future in which global-1 is free of tradespam
this would make it so that players would either move to another global chat to talk trade or be removed from chat or a set amount of time.
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Originally Posted by Wence
A designated recruitment tab is needed to take care of this.
I don't understand why people advertise trading either. If you have a trade post, everyone can already see it.
I have made the suggestion to have a trade tab put into the game. This would eliminate a lot of the spam that has been happening in chat. This is simply something for right now until they decided either way of doing it or not doing it.
I would love a Trade tab for Chatting as that would greatly help in reducing the trades being advertised in Global and Help Tab (don't really have any alternative at the moment).
I would love any channel to be designated, also would love to have it enforced to keep all advertisements (trade, recruiting) kept out of the help tab please, as it makes it hard for us to see the real questions for help sometimes. Thank you.
So does this mean you will have round the clock moderators watching for recruitment and trade spam?Quote:
Originally Posted by BB_MrGrimm
no, that is something I am still working on. But it would become a reportable offense.
I'm not sure how much it'd help but when I first joined, people told me global-7 was for trading and since then I've never seen people use it. I'm also not sure I'd like to see guild recruitment bunched up with trading. The guild interface + forum threads should serve as plenty of recruitment info for anyone wanting to join a guild.
Logically and in theory yes, it would seem that guild interface + forum thread would seem to be enough but it is not. There are still people who are under the impression that they are exceptions to following the rules regarding what they post in the chats. Really and in truth, what it will take is moderators. I have been told they are working on getting mods but it can't happen fast enough. I have to agree with Zuma's comments.. with all that goes on in global, I think trade requests should be lower on the priority list personally.
in all honnesty, you could sit there all day going over report's for spamming and not gain any leadway. ask any gm in other mmo's like wow. no offence intended, but no matter how great the idea is, you'll never be able to enforce it. just be thankful it's not filled with spam like wow.
Yeah, it needs to be a tabbed chat. You can free up a tab by ditching the whisper tab. It would be better if whispers were either routed through the mail system or appeared as a popup possibly via an icon around the avatar.
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To solve this "problem", we need chat in the trade tab (or new market interface) and a guild advert tab or the ads will continue in global. I like seeing the ads it global and often respond. It works. Changing to a different global penalizes those who are making deals from seeing what's going on in the main global tab. The ads aren't that bad.
I try my best to steer(like cows) people the best way, no matter what MrGrimm(Reaper) thinks. There is HELP for newbies. There is TRADE.
Global-2 for announcements would be great. That saves G-1 for people who are just goofing around and want to pick on
MrGrimm, bless his sweet heart
It's going to take alot more than getting rid of trade/recruit spam in global to make global more ENJOYABLE! If spam is so annoying I'd hate to see what the rest of the stuff that makes global non-enjoyable is defined as. But, if we need to choose, I choose global-2, not that it really matters. If trade/recruit is going to be moved to another channel, pick a channel and let everyone know what channel it will be. Does it really matter if its 2,3,4,5,etc? Again, if I have to choose I choose global-2 I guess.