Banned 71 hours for spamming?!

Is this new? I going to DoA from kaineng, and i passed kamadan. I needed a +30 for spear for a while, so i figured id go like BUYING +30hp for spear in every city i would pass. So i was in kamadan, and i entered it a few times and boom, i disconnected.

Turns out ive been tempbanned for excessive messaging, and i may rejoin game after 72 hours. O_O? I mean, cmon, people are spamming like there is no tomorrow and i pass kamadan, drop a few lines and get myself tempbanned. I didnt even know you can be banned for that....well its a good thing you can but for a few lines.....O_O

If I had to guess - you probably got spotted by a mod. Just pure random chance (if you really aren't a "repeat offender"), and bad luck on you.

i guess. But then half of kamadan should get banned :S

Thats fair,I mean he could have used the specialized trading syst-

Owait.There isn't one.

MAHMISTAKELOLOLOLOLOLOL.

If you really did spam that message in every city you passed through, you probably set off some sort of alarm. That could be considered bot-like behavior.

Moral of the story kids:

Use the trade channel.

Guild Wars isn't a game played by a bot, or in this case...players that act like a bot. =.=

Did you use the trade chat or all chat? If it was trade chat you should be okay.

Was it in International Dist 1? When Gaile was answering questions?

People spam to buy and sell all the time and I have never heard of action being taken that didn't fall into the above two areas, but then, maybe this is something new....

Any screen shot to back this up? Spamming WTB/WTS on any chats shouldn't get you banned, otherwise LA, Kamadan & Keinerg would be a ghost town. Is there anything else you're not telling us?

Did you do something bad before?O.o

Oh yeah, one more thing, It's funny how Gaile encourages us to buy/sell items in one of her threads, yet spamming is the only means of doing so, which grants people bans now? god i love this game!. (sarcasm).

There was a thread over at gwonline (closed now) with two people who this happened to. Both were selling, and received a temp ban.

Sounds like Anet changed something in the coding somewhere.

Do you ever get the impression that Anet doesn't think some things through very well? "We're going to nerf drops to promote player-to-player selling/buying; without giving you a decent in-game method of doing such. Oh, and we'll ban you if you try too hard."

Hmm...oooookay anet.

If you don't use the trade channel and the PARTY SEARCH BUTTON that HAS A SPECIFIC SECTION FOR TRADE and is AS CLOSE TO A "TRADE SYSTEM" AS WE WILL EVER GET (because Anet will never, ever, ever create an auction system, quit deluding yourselves), then I have absolutely zero sympathy for you.

I leave all-chat turned off because you absolutely cannot use it for its original purposes (discussion with non-guildie/alliance/team members for non-trade reasons) because of the trade spam. You're supposed to be able to avoid trade talk by turning off the trade channel, or go listen to it if you WTB/WTS something.

So people getting banned for trade spam on allchat? Great! Good work, Anet!

Well i used all chat. I was just skipping tru towns hoping for somebody to PM me. I contacted customer support, but no answers yet. Personally i think its pathetic to ban people for THREE days because of this. I mean, if you change the code, please drop a warning before you wtfban people.

Have you ever tried using it? It's too small to work. That's why nobody uses it. The only thing you can get in there would have to be materials, like "WTB Ectos PM" or "WTS Iron PST". That's all. Don't be so hasty until you've actually tried using the Party trade. It doesn't work. It's not an option.

the OP never stated what channel he used. If he was spamming multiple times before the text fade-out in local chat, then I think a tempban is appropriate.

Just a way to keep the trade spam in the trade channel. If Anet has begun to do this, it's a good thing.

Yeah, I've had that impression since a few months into play, this is just so funny, they ban people for spamming now.. that's all anet does to regulate the game, ban ban ban, ban ban ban, more bans, remember the perma-bans they pulled on a ton of people that were ''accidental'' and they had to fight for their accounts back? jesus.

All chat spam has been an issue for quite some time. It is actually good to see something being done, but at the same time I would lke to know their "new guidelines" can we be banned for "LFG" or "GLF" that is spam as well.... Hoping someone tells us the rules here

Alot of people spam, and alot of people get away with it... but once in a while, a few lucky contestants gets to be martyred as an example for the rest.

Don't spam.

So....you specifically circumvented a game mechanic to derive a personal benefit and got banned?

Although it's easy to see why you did it (because "everyone else was"), it's also easy to see why there was a repercussion for your actions. This is why I've commented many times on various threads suggesting "how to make a quick buck" that posting in the ALL channel, even in Lions Arch Dist 1, is NOT a good idea.