Have You Been Reporting Anybody?

With the newest dev thread about trade spamming in all chat, I was just wondering who is doing their part.

It reads:

As you know, we offer several types of chat options in Guild Wars. Lately, players have shared their concerns about the increasing problem of people spamming trade messages to the All Chat ("Local") Channel, instead of using the Trade Channel which is designated for that purpose. In response to that concern—which we share—we will be taking steps to increase our enforcement of the existing Rules of Conduct. As you are probably aware, spamming of any kind is strictly against the Rules of Conduct, but we are specifically concerned with those who are spamming the All Chat Channel. In order to encourage those with sales, purchases, and trade to use the designated Trade Channel instead, we will begin keeping records of the worst offenders, and those who spam All Chat with trade messages may have their accounts suspended. (You can find details on our policies and practices in our Conduct Breaches and Outcomes document.)

The Trade Channel is there for you, and we will not be taking action against those put their trade messages in the Trade Channel. You are free to go about your buying, selling, and trading messaging as you desire, as long as you keep it within the Trade Channel. (The use of a “spam bot”—like any bot—is still strictly disallowed, and we will action accounts that are found to be using them.)

This increased diligence towards trade spam in the All Chat Channel is not intended to stop trade – not at all! We fully encourage and support trade; that is why we have a channel completely dedicated to sales, purchases, and trades. This increased enforcement is designed to keep trade chat in the Trade Channel, and to help reduce the amount of spam in the All Chat Channel.

We thank you for your patience with this situation, and appreciate your support of the new initiative to improve the Guild Wars experience.


I've taken valuable farming time to start screening and reporting people for this crap (since it's my lot in life to complain ), and I'm wondering.........

Have any of you reported trade spamming in all chat? Can we get just a little hint of what anet is doing to stop it (besides relying on us) ?

KANE

Was this a call to players to report people? I assumed it meant they recognize this is going on and they'd have people watching and suspending as needed. If someone asked for my help on this, I'd be happy do to my part in reporting. I'm thrilled that this problem was addressed, as I thought we were pretty much stuck with it.

Nope, and I will not either. While I don't like trade in general chat, reporting I only do for very bad behaviour. ANet needs to get a technical solution for this problem instead of warning / kicking / banning ppl.

I only report for really bad things and if I'm bothered by anything. But that's it.

I don't even know how to report people.

http://guildwars.com/support/

Personally, I think you should learn.

I might be an ass in these forums, but I'm a great guy in-game, so I'd like to make it better any way I can.

KANE

Report people? why? I couldn't care less what other people do. If the spam gets too much I turn off chat. No need to cry about it.

Do we get money for it?
Lol joke

Anyone have a link to the page? for reporting
Also can we report the "WTB BATTLE COMMENDATIONS 50g GOOD PRICE" even if its in trade? its not fair to the newbies

EDIT : you posted link at same time i posted this
Thanks

If I have nothing better to do, I might sit in Kamadan and just start writing down names. It probably wouldn't be worth my time going through a support ticket, unless there were at least 20 names that'd get temp banned though.

after that message from gail, i've been asking people to switch to trade, and snaping screenies of those who don't - but i haven't gotten around to sending anything to a-net yet. hell i got a series of pics of at least 30 different people doing it in less then two minutes passing through kodash bazar last night.

Last night I sent a report in on someone that was spamming in All chat WTS crap 15 - 20 times per minute. (in all caps too, I might add)

The response I got was:

That's exactly the kind of thing I've been getting. That's why I started this thread (looking for other people's experiences). I would like to see a difference here.

Apparently, our collective threads about trade spamming in all chat got their attention, and I'm happy about that. We, as a community, have to back up anet (apparently) because they can't do it themselves.

Even though they didn't ask for our help, they need it. I'll continue taking screenies (cutting into my play time) and reporting.... as well as warning people in the major cities and dealing with the abuse afterwards. Weeeeee.

I'm an ass on these forums, but I want to see my game of choice treated with care.

KANE

Edit: Can't quote the response! LOL

Most people don't even know you can get penalized for spamming.
I bet it would take something like 10 repeated reported offenses, then 10 more after the dude was warned by a GM to ban someone for spamming.

Why waste your time? it's Anets problem let their "professionals" deal with it

Lately? Isn't saying "lately" for something that has been one of highest annoyance factors for 2 years an understatement?

If anything, the spam dropped somewhat after insignias and separation of playerbase across chapters.

Why not just att a /report, that would send last 5-50 messages from that player to auto report.

Going through all that hassle with plaync support, submitting screenshots, times, etc. is simply not worth it, when you have 50 people spamming. And before you fill out the forms, there's 50 new ones. It's just not worth the effort.

I don't know how to report people. ANet makes it so complicated.

People really should not have a problem with trade spam...its part of the game and there is really no other alternative way to sell items. Also, most players dont even know about the trade channel, and because of that no alot of people use it anyway.

Most trade spam is only in Lion's Arch, Kamadan and Kaineng Center anyway and by now everyone know that those three towns are basically designated trading zones.

You, Sir, are the problem. Thank you for your post.

KANE

No, people should learn to behave according to what they agree to. If they can't they should take a little punishment, and if later on nothing is learned they should take more, say three strikes out, you loose your account.

Basically, i dont see much difference in spam/ trade in all chat or spam in trade chat. It annoys the hell out of me, cause i like to sell too. SO there is no option of just "shutting" the channel of.

I wonder whether ANet really will do something with good proof of spammers, and I would certainly agree on a small bounty for good reports say 1000 gold. This will not be money generating if accounts get a permanent ban after 3 to 5 times. nobody risks an account for 5 platinum.
As Kane said u are a problem, u interfere with the business of people that do behave, thats why u need to be expelled.

I report botters. I just fired off an email (with screenshot proofs) of 74 botters in Bergen. I don't want to send too many emails, though, so I'll start sending when I hit 100 names.