Quote:Tinker in the .lua

It didn't take me long to find... I'm currently at work or I'd look again and give you a general idea of where to look:)

Quote:I poked around in the lua -- if you've used WRUGS and know how it works I don't think it is very hard.

However, I had to delete it. I got all kinds of errors with WRUGS. I don't have any chat mods installed, with the exception of Suicide Kings, which I suppose could be causing a conflict.

Quote:I poked around in the lua -- if you've used WRUGS and know how it works I don't think it is very hard.

However, I had to delete it. I got all kinds of errors with WRUGS. I don't have any chat mods installed, with the exception of Suicide Kings, which I suppose could be causing a conflict.

Quote:Tinker in the .lua

It didn't take me long to find... I'm currently at work or I'd look again and give you a general idea of where to look:)

Quote:Not very comfortable with tinkering in .lua files. I'm not exactly what you'd call an expert on the subject.:P

Besides, I'd have to do the same all over again at every upgrade... meh. No thanks.

Quote:You don't need to tinker to get use out of it. Bots aren't currently responding to it and won't for quite a while. Once they do, I'd be surprised if the makers didn't put in easy funtionality to change the message.

Quote: With the upcoming Black Temple patch, we will be introducing new features aimed directly at reducing the amount of repetitive and unwanted whispers, chat text, and mail. Our goal with these new features is to not only increase the ease of reporting spam, but also to automatically restrict it. Following the implementation of these features, we will continue to monitor for chat and mail abuse and take further action as needed.

Here are some of the new spam-prevention features going into the new patch.

Reporting abilities:


* Players will now be able to report chat and mail spam with the click of a button. A "Report Spam" option will now be available by right-clicking on a player’s name in a chat channel, whisper, or mail. Using this option will quickly and easily report the player to our in-game support department for review.
* When you report a player, he or she will automatically be added to your ignore list for your current session. You won't see any chat or mail from that player until you log out and back in.
* These tools function on a per-account basis, meaning that reporting one character on an account will ignore all chat text and mail from that entire account until you log off.
* You will not be able to report players on your friends list or in your guild.


Message throttling:


* Players will no longer be able to send large amounts of text at one time, filling a chat screen with a repeating message, large blocks of gibberish, or text that could disrupt an entire conversation. This throttling, along with the new chat-reporting feature should make it much easier to keep unwanted text off your screen before it becomes overwhelming.

Quote:Message throttling:


* Players will no longer be able to send large amounts of text at one time, filling a chat screen with a repeating message, large blocks of gibberish, or text that could disrupt an entire conversation. This throttling, along with the new chat-reporting feature should make it much easier to keep unwanted text off your screen before it becomes overwhelming.

Quote:It will be interesting to see how this affects those that like to dump combat stats from some of the add ons.

Quote:Yeah, and the !gem addons, etc.

I'm hoping blizzard will be concerned with false positives so they've taken that into account. Then again, I'm not entirely certain how effective their measures will be, for that reason. The reporting is nice, but after the fact - most goldspammers will whisper you once and that's it, so putting them on ignore doesn't help.

Quote:Yeah, and the !gem addons, etc.

I'm hoping blizzard will be concerned with false positives so they've taken that into account. Then again, I'm not entirely certain how effective their measures will be, for that reason. The reporting is nice, but after the fact - most goldspammers will whisper you once and that's it, so putting them on ignore doesn't help.

Quote:By the way, I installed STFU when this post started and over the last few weeks I've noticed more and more whispers getting through from gold spammers. Ironically I checked each one that made it through and they were all level 1 characters that should have been blocked. So just FYI, apparently they're finding ways around that one.
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Quote:If you have any other chat addons, that may be your problem.

Quote:One would think that it's not in a spammer's best interest to spend time circumventing people who are actively avoiding ads for their products. I don't imagine that people who install gold-spam-avoiding mods are likely to be swayed by any spam that gets through.