No Chat Repeat Function (FlameBait for sure)

Well I was thinking.... since a majority of Guild Ads and Trade ads circling through Lions Arch, Kaineng Center, and Kamadan originate from the chat repeat feature, why not turn it off?

I quite literally see no other feature for the repeat function other than to create spam. For typical chat, its not that difficult to type it again if somebody missed what you said.

I believe that without the repeat feature, spam would be near nonexistent. There are people who can type gibberish spam, sure, but since it has no use... it would not be as common as advertisements.

Try to remember that we have the search feature now, and no longer need to spam districts with ads. If the repeat function was disabled, then people would not be doing chat sales as often as before.

Who knows.... maybe you will be able to hold a conversation in Lions Arch District 1 again?

Thoughts?

Ctrl+C -> Ctrl+V

Geegee, another option "bypassed".

I think it's pretty useful, not to spam stuff in PvE but just to ask people the same question in pms etc.

Oooh.... I didnt think of that. Touche.

I do think it would cut back on some of the spam but not that much. And BTW all it takes is to highlight the text and hit Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V and you have a copy and paste of the text, so it wouldn't really matter because anyone with a brain can just do that. But then again I don't know how many people in GW actually have brains...

Good idea but the fact is that you will not be able to have a discussion in the biggest trade hub of GW ever again unless you go to international or a higher district.

*edit* Aera beat me to it...

You'll have to remove the CopyPaste too if you want to completely remove the easiness of spamming.

I've seen that done with some web forms, so it should be possible.

/Notsigned

This is useful in so many way's its not even funny. Spam would just be spelled wrong if we did it this way

I dont get what you mean. Could somebody elaborate?

Lol he's talking about retyping, and people can't type properly any more.

Me, I would rather have a /ban function. Disable the spammers' local chat if enough people use /ban. 10 banners disable for 1 minute. 20 banners, for 2. Cumulative over the life of the account.

Trying to solve spamming by removing Copy/Paste and removing chat repeat would piss more people off than its worth.

Would be a bit stupid when it came to the new addition of 'Template Codes' too if you couldn't copy/paste them in game...

Id hate to lose copy/paste its WAY to usful for finding people in towns...

/signed might get rid of bots or ppl who dont know cntl+v cntl+c

Well, maybe they would restrict it in all chat?

Yeah, thats a good point. If only all chat was affected by no copy/paste, you could always simply invite people to a team or just whisper them for a repeat.

I think that if they turned off repeat and copy/paste in all chat ONLY, that would solve the problem. It would force players to go to trade channel or otherwise retype every time.

i stay in higher districts unless the anet gods hate me and when i log on I spawn in dis 1. Usually I have local turned off so i like this idea. kill the cut paste for chat only. Thats fair.

~the rat~

lol,

I didn't know there was a chat repeat function, and thought everyone was using copypaste....

Out of curiosity, what is the chat repeat function?