Banned 71 hours for spamming?!

I got unbanned, first time offender. Yay!

But can anybody tell me why i can observe THIS person spamming his message all the time? He has been doing that for the past 10 minutes, where i got wtfbanned in a matter of seconds.

we should install bountyhunting like in the good old wild west ^^


[size=8]This is a joke ofcourse, I obviously think this matter should be handled in a trustworthy manner.[/size] ok size doesn't work here

Much better and welcome back to Guild Wars

This isssue seem to have been handled very poorly by Anet. After reading this thread I went to LA (1), Kaineng (1), Kamadan (1) and watched NUMEROUS people spam the the same things over and over agian for 15-20 mins. They never left, just kept on spamming. What I would like to see in some consistency out of Anet. Why ban only a few?

If you make the rule enforce it!

If you make the rule and don't enforce for 2 years and then start to, you should really let people know. Doing otherwise looks really bad on you Anet.

People have been using chat like this since the games release 2 years ago, to come in and start enforcing this now without warning is really quite pathetic and poorly thought out by Anet's staff. IMO, just one more thing to piss off the fan base. Mind you, that does seem to be the current goal of Anet...

Any insult to an individual or the community as a whole will be deleted. Please keep your posts on topic and contributing.

It's true, you don't have enough characters to fully state what it is you're selling, so you need to put enough information there to get someone's eye. IF someone's in the market for an elemental sword and sees:

S: G R9 Ele Sword

This should be enough to get them to PM you with an inquiry. If not... well, be a little more creative in the limited space available. Hopefully ANet will now consider increasing the size of the text area in the "P" window... it's really not sufficient. But, in the mean time, we need to stick within the boundaries of the game and do our best.

I was banned for making 5 posts in the trade channel in Euro Kamadan dist 1. Theyr not banning spammers, theyr banning casual players who need to sell the few things they got during a chest run. i wasnt even in the dist for 5 mins before i got banned, its completely out of proportion, A-Net need to wise up or every1 will start trading on these and other forums more instead of in-game.

I submitted a ticket thing to GW support about it and got a reply saying that i was banned correctly. I then asked them what the fixed limit as in chats per minute is and am still waiting an answer, ill post here when i get an answer... providing i dont get banned here for 2 posts in the same thread...

Whoa... if you were specifically in the trade channel...

Gaile, we really need to hear from you...

Ok.... so maybe a bit of consistancy is needed. Banning someone for posting the same thing 5 times in the trade channel is more than a little short-sighted if there are still plenty of people spamming the same crap over 50 times in local.

And this shouldn't just be for trade.

It should be for the LFG-spammers and Recruit-Spammers too... In fact it should be any repeat-posting of the same message over a certain limit...
... BUT... it needs to be prioritised. The worst offenders need to be dealt with first and most harshly.

Now that is very concerning. Feedback for this topic isn't wanted, it's needed. I want some offical response pronto (please).

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I agree, i also had a similair case doing only 3 posts in the trade channel, a few seconds later i was banned without any warning or so.
People are getting scared of selling things they have found on their quests, people are scared of farming because they might get banned by doing it, this is getting out of control.

We realy do need official response, quickly.

does any1 know if theres been an official response in other forums?

If they're trying to use these kind of scare-tactics to get us to stop, then it's working. But it's just wrong.

If we don't get any offical response shortly, then I'm going to assume that ANet and everyone else is in on this. Aieeee! /tinfoilhat

hi i got band for 72 hrs been let of after alot of complaing, my piont with them is how can i spam when there is anti spam code, and i was only posting in trade so anet need to sort it out.. i know they will never spend money and time in adding auction house, evan though they got eye of the north comming out and could easy add it to that.... personly i think anet gone NUTS and gone on a self desuct mode.. maybe this is how they intend on sorting the laggy servers out, get rid of pve peps...

Master, there's been a recent thread over at GWO from Gaile on the banning of players but no response to this particular circumstances of banning. You can read through the reponses by visiting our Game & Dev Tracker forum here:

05/10 Gaile Gray: Banning of real players for no reason.

And I just tried to trade in Kamadan (since I've seen 2 people state it happened to them there), no problems. I am curious as to the trigger or if it flags your account first. What exact circumstances trigger the ban. I'm not saying we should be told so that we can find ways around it (aka W T S) but a bit of a heads up, we've enacted this new code, etc. I did receive the "your message was supressed due to excessive messaging" so perhaps that acts as the warning system. Receive that enough times and you get banned maybe.

thanks Inde, ive been watching that thread recently and actually quoted some of it in my reports to A-Net but still not getting anywhere with them...

bet they're having a great kick up at GW HQ outta watching is suffer for all their recent muck ups... AoE, SR, drop rates and now spam...

Inde and everyone

I thought A-Net would look at the logs to determine if someone is a bot or not. Remember all the problems we had during the first Dragon's Festival where peoples who went afk for a whole day got banned. They thought back than that peoples that went afk during the event are farming bots and started the whole banning real players thing. Is history repeating it self? I mean what if I just spammed random crap in LA one day like "OMG GW SUCKED" like 50 times in a row.. would I be considered a bot?

I think we need some offical words on this.

Just out of curiosity, what happens if your banned in error. You report it and as galie said they re examin your account. But say erm nope we were correct to ban you when they obviously where not? May i ask what happens then because i know one friend who this happened to and he was accused of botting when the guy dosent even know what one is lol let alone how to use one. He reported it to anet, they reviewed and replied saying blah blah.

I dare say i got that "your message was supressed due to excessive messaging" only twice not sure as i obv cant access any log or anything but it was very little and as anyone who trades knows, that message will appear rather alot normally so i doubt thats the trigger. Im wondering if this was to alarm people as i was in kamadan for very little time and any proper code should not have triggered but it also hapened the same to SniperF0x would that have anythin to do with it?

theory: the spambots are properly timed to not set off the spam filter?