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Sorry to hear that you're having a negative experience with General Chat. It seems you're already familiar with the ignore list, which is good, but (as others have mentioned) you can also leave General Chat altogether if the messages are too frequent and are disrupting your play. If you aren't in a guild, I'd strongly recommend checking a few out to find a good fit - you may find that a good guild chat with others who share similar tastes would suit you best! Remember that you can change your chat settings at any time, so if it's ever too overwhelming, you might want to leave and come back later. Also - remember that you can report players who are being abusive, offensive, or who are harassing others in chat. Now that the Group Finder is available, General Chat shouldn't be necessary to form a group (though it can still be helpful).

So you are admitting that either in game GMs won't police the abuse of general chat or are not allowed to police and that we have to either opt out of general chat or put up with all the goings on. Why have general chat then?

Recommendations:

Turn Channel 1 General Chat off while on Fleet.

Find groups via the group finder.

Sell items in Channel 2 Trade chat and/or on the GTN.

if all else fails... see if you can come up with better or unique Jawa titles instead of the same repetitive titles everyone else is using over and over.

All and all... it's still better than Barrens chat in WoW. lol

No, they're saying that as long as general chat is not being OFFENSIVE OR ABUSIVE it's not violating the terms of service and therefore fitting in with the general theme of, you know... GENERAL chat.

Yeh had issues with this to especially for same reason i hate getting sucked into forums here very long. to much negativity. plus just plain hard to see anything else need to see in general chat when your getting spammed. I actually may sound ironic I moved 'general' chat to another tab called 'gen' and I hardly ever look at it unless need to ask soemthign in it which I rarely do in a public chat because of jerks... Unfortuantly does mean I miss out on people looking for someone to group with and given I'm not comfortable just jumping in middle random people for some fp or whatever means I don;t use groupfinder much.... end up solo most time...

But still it;s an option as well to move general to another tab to. what you do otherwise for grouping or not I guess up to you.

Least that way it;s still there and and a tab away but not spamming you lol

Be nice if we had a 'Looking for group' channel.

or... why have trade chat, the GTN, or group finder?

seriously though... what is there to "police"? A ban on the word Jawa? If it was to be policed as you suggest, then there should be no trading, nor group finding allowed in general chat either.

Over on Nightmare Lands we have goats.

I kid you not, endless film titles with goat in them, the Imperial fleet got bored of it within 4/5 hours but as far as I'm aware it's still going strong on the Republic side...

Frankly, I'm happy for a little bit of stupidity in general chat, everyone has to be a reasonable human being irl so as long as they're not impacting anyone's enjoyment by ninja looting or whatever I think it's something you need to suck up and not take too seriously.

There is another "word" that refers to a certain body part that people link abilites to and it is used in this game as it was in trade chat of that other game.

yes, and?

If you believe that someone is violating the Terms of Service, you are definitely encouraged to report that player by submitting a ticket in-game. Customer Service will take any necessary actions based on your report. I would never discourage anyone from doing this, but also wanted to offer some other solutions that may mitigate it immediately if it is having a negative effect on anyone's experience.