Yet another tired of Credit Spammers thread

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Yet another tired of Credit Spammers thread

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Rankyn

12.21.2012 , 11:03 AM \| #11	Quote
Quote: Originally Posted by Foambreaker I don't understand why they don't add the web site addresses to the dirty words filter, it is such a brain dead simple fix. That's always been my suggested fix... just add the URL of the spammers' sites to a special filter that not only keeps it from actually going out into the chat channel BUT doesn't give the spammer an indication that it wasn't sent. It should also be something that can be easily updated on the fly by customer service or whoever so it didn't require any kind of patch to add new variations to it.

Chaoslordfox

12.21.2012 , 11:31 AM \| #12	Quote
Quote: Originally Posted by Rankyn That's always been my suggested fix... just add the URL of the spammers' sites to a special filter that not only keeps it from actually going out into the chat channel BUT doesn't give the spammer an indication that it wasn't sent. It should also be something that can be easily updated on the fly by customer service or whoever so it didn't require any kind of patch to add new variations to it. Another thought what if a new one that is not all ready in the database pops up then they would have to add that ? If they did this New site would be made and the spammers would use those.... IT"S NEVER ENDING CYCLE WERE ALL DOOMED!
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Eldrenath

12.21.2012 , 12:17 PM \| #13	Quote
Quote: Originally Posted by Schwerpunkt And all that will accomplish is that the spammers will change the opening message. The only successful anti-RMT spam features I've seen in a game were in CoH. Free accounts were restricted to specific chat channels that either weren't serverwide or weren't standard channels and had their own tab which was easily ignored. a hide feature with several options that allowed players to block tells/PM's, hide from general searches or could be customized to hide from everyone but select groups of people. And an email filter that blocked all emails except from people in your guild or on your friends list. They also had a report/ignore feature that petitioned spammers and added them to your ignore list. After that the only people that complained about RMT spam were the ones that refused to use the features that blocked spammers. LOTRO has a somewhat similar system. Doesn't have the email filters you mentioned, but it does have a report/ignore feature like you describe. If someone is spamming in a chat channel, you just right click their name and choose "report as spammer" or something like that, and it adds them to your ignore list and creates automatically creates a petition/ticket about them as a goldspammer. Once they implemented it, RMT spamming fell very dramatically. Something like that would be nice here. Personally, I haven't seen it. Maybe I've been lucky or something? I've only been back about a week, but I have yet to see a single spam message in chat or get any spam mail.

NasherUK

12.21.2012 , 12:19 PM \| #14	Quote
They just need to add in some chat filter options. Like being able to ignore all chat and mail from people under a certain level (which we can manually set ourselves) Also being able to take yourself off the who list would help as they wouldn't be able to just search for names to spam.

Foambreaker

12.21.2012 , 12:22 PM \| #15	Quote
Quote: Originally Posted by Chaoslordfox Another thought what if a new one that is not all ready in the database pops up then they would have to add that ? If they did this New site would be made and the spammers would use those.... IT"S NEVER ENDING CYCLE WERE ALL DOOMED! They have to pay for new domain names, and it takes time. It would become not worth it really quickly. Especially if the time it took to block a site address was in hours. But the real fix is to not use these sites, they are there because people are giving them money. If people want in game credits they should buy unlocks and sell them. Not give money to spamers. Don't Feed the Spammers

Spoletta

12.21.2012 , 12:48 PM \| #16	Quote
I can confirm that on ToFN they are not active, i saw only 1 spammer and it was reported and banned in <24 hours.

CaptianFordo

12.21.2012 , 12:49 PM \| #17	Quote
OP, It's not like they can do much, unless they change how F2P works. The Credit spammers can just make a new e-mail, and then make a new toon. Rinse and repeat.

Foambreaker

12.21.2012 , 01:12 PM \| #18	Quote
Quote: Originally Posted by CaptianFordo OP, It's not like they can do much, unless they change how F2P works. The Credit spammers can just make a new e-mail, and then make a new toon. Rinse and repeat. Besides adding their web address to the bad words filter? Simple simple, makes spam pointless.

NasherUK

12.21.2012 , 01:13 PM \| #19	Quote
Luckily in-game credits in SWTOR don't have a very high value and they are quite easy to get. So there probably isn't much of a market for them (unlike wow). They should just allow you to swap cartel coins for a limited amount of credits per month, then they would push goldsellers out of the market entirely. BW could just set an exchange rate so it's impossible for goldfamers to compete.

Rankyn

12.21.2012 , 03:50 PM \| #20	Quote
Quote: Originally Posted by Chaoslordfox Another thought what if a new one that is not all ready in the database pops up then they would have to add that ? If they did this New site would be made and the spammers would use those.... IT"S NEVER ENDING CYCLE WERE ALL DOOMED! The point being that it should be a simple process to add new sites to the filter. Spammers buy new site (costing them money) or change the way they spam and all Customer Service would have to do is update a database entry and the new site would immediately start being filtered. There's no way to stop spammers in real time. The best you can hope to do is to cut down on the amount of time it takes to force them to change their tactics. Even so, spammers are a nuisance at best and are easily ignored with a single click and not some apocalyptic roadblock to gameplay.

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