How do you think we could get rid of credit spamers....

Derine · Post by **Derine** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 7:01 am

Everyone know the very hated Credit spamers and the Very disliked newb. Who follows you around wanting to group with you. Well we all know the reason price's are so high is cuz of these newbs. It is also the reason why Entertainers are so bitchy. Alot of there buisness is getting driven away from your local Newbs on TAT. Well I had A couple idea's on how to rid SWG of the spamers, And keep the newbs at bay. But I would like to hear what everyone in the guild has to say. Before I posted in the SWG forums. After hearing what everyone has to say I would like to start a Poll to vote on the best Idea.

Cost of a can of soda pop and the time taken to type this out - less then 1 rock!!!
Cost of this forum post - 3k in rocks!!
Cost of removing credit spammers and keeping newbs under control - Priceless
But you can tip me some rocks if you want!!!

Post by **Lexx Yovel** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 9:18 am

Well I voted for Lexx is cool, but I think I have some ideas concerning credit spammers... not so sure on how to handle newbies but I'll get to that later I guess.

First, there are several ways to do this.

1.) Dont allow anyone under CL 10 from using macros... period.
2.) Dont allow anyone to use macros with the words, "www" and "credits" in the same message.
3.) Allow players to kill spammers... just like we were able to during that one Dev event.

DelvanVellar · Post by **DelvanVellar** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 10:03 am

I agree, something needs to be done about credit spammers. WoW had the same problem, and their solution was that noone under lvl 5 could use tells. Also, there is now the option to report someone for spam. While a single report they don't do anything about, if they see a pattern (several reports for spam in a period of a few minutes) then they usually start with a short term ban, then a long term ban.

This seems to have really curtailed alot of the spam from in game mail and tells from credit (gold) spammers.

Lexx, your ideas seem good, though I would be suprised (plesantly) if they implemented the 3rd one you mentioned...though it would be fun hunting them down

Post by **Lexx Yovel** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 12:26 pm

Hehe, yes the third one is more of a daydream on my part. I cant see any mechanical implementation of killing spammers unless GM's come to make them attackable (like they did that one day).

Apium · Post by **Apium** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 5:00 pm

/addignore?

Kurke_Aumea · Post by **Kurke_Aumea** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 5:14 pm

Apium wrote:/addignore?

You'd think that would be easy enough for everyone to do... lol

Post by **Lexx Yovel** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 7:46 pm

Yeah but there's literally TONS of them. It's a bit of a chore to addignore them all. They literally come in like cockroaches.

Apium · Post by **Apium** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 8:44 pm

LexxYovel wrote:Yeah but there's literally TONS of them. It's a bit of a chore to addignore them all. They literally come in like cockroaches.

/addignore all

spatial chat was overrated anyways.

Creod · Post by **Creod** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 3:07 am

LOL everyone voted for lexx is cool :lol:

Waucod Meesman · Post by **Waucod Meesman** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 10:17 am

Creod wrote:LOL everyone voted for lexx is cool

there you go I fixed that

Apium · Post by **Apium** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:06 am

Waucod Meesman wrote:
Creod wrote:LOL everyone voted for lexx is cool

there you go I fixed that

lies!

Waucod Meesman · Post by **Waucod Meesman** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 3:03 pm

Apium you and your mod powers suck

R.I.D BASE OF OPERATIONS

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