Time delay in chat

My suggestion is to return some amount of blocking spam by adding a 3 second delay betweeen messages that are sent by a person. This would start to clear up local chats in missions that have groups constantly spamming messages lke this:

(not ign that i know of please don't spam them)
Random Pu G Leader: Masters group starting need monk and nuker 6/8 have MONK ALREADY. join and were g2g
Book Man: Selling book of secrets 50k OBO
Mending Warmo: tank lfg
Book Man: Selling book of secrets 50k OBO
Random Pu G Leader: Masters group starting need monk and nuker 6/8 have MONK ALREADY. join and were g2g
Random Pu G Leader: Masters group starting need monk and nuker 6/8 have MONK ALREADY. join and were g2g
Other Person A: ranger lfg

A time delay would at least some of the ads to a few second bursts possible making it where people can have a semi-normal conversation.
Plus it'd make sell bots break for a short while.

edited to add related threads
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...hlight=loca l

messages that are spammed
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...ighlight=local

I think 3 seconds might be a bit much - but certainly 1 or 2.

Another approach might be to filter messages that are the exact same as your last message...at least in local/trade. In guild chat you might be saying "hi" to a bunch of different people, so you wouldnt want this to be any kind of global filtering technique.

Disabling pasting and the up-arrow message history in local/trade chat would help too, at least force people to re-type it. When they get repetitive strain injuries maybe they'll stop spamming.

Copy+Paste gets around up-arrow.
A better solution is turning the ignore list into a blacklist. Basically, there's no way you'll come across someone who has been blacklisted by you (in groups, trade, etc).

I would suggest making extremely harsh anti spam. make people use the search option.

Edit:Whops quoted wrong guy