The spamming has receded

It is truly amazing to go in to a major trade hub in all the campaigns to see no trade spam in the local channel. People are even commenting about how great it is that is finally spam-free. A-Net's tactics have finally worked and I'm very happy about that. Who knows, maybe next they'll allow more characters in the party search function? (kidding)

In any case, thanks A-Net!

WOW

anet does listen to us...



from time to time....

I wouldn't get your hopes up.

But for now...

-Golf Clap-

Yay ANet.

Checked LA earlier and it was still the same though many people were quickly warned about the new rule and people started using trade chat only. We really need atleast ten new characters in party search..

Good now if tey deal with all types of spam too. And they need to start banning people who blind invite themselves, as that is also against the EULA,escpecial since that is nothing more than harrasment when you are not even looking for group.

Ive had that happen, whats even better is when they open trade and you close and they open again and you close and they say thank you. I think its a seller bot?

On topic: Im so thankful for this because now I can read what people are saying!

Now lets see guild recruitment spam get receded >_< it seems that posting 10 messages a second isn't good enough for some

Good idea now i can't see anything in trade chat. Thank you anet! Make party search bigger kthx.

Geez, ANet makes the traders behave themselves, and still someone has to whine about it.

The thing I suggested about this in Sardelac somewhere is that they need to make the name in the trade channel actually be a slightly different color than the text in trade channel. Makes it an awful lot easier to read since the name being a different color/shade serves as a visual sort of line break and helps you scan all the text easier, a la all channel names being yellow and text being white. Its just easier on the eye to have them two different colors or at least shades. Always wondered why they havent picked up on that.

Anyhow, cheers for Anet.

Well it's truely amazing, but i think the Party Search is not going to be changed at all. I've suggested it in numerous riverside threads, and wanted a Oficial statement either from Gaile, Andrew or any other Anet Representative. But alas no reply what so ever. I think it's either just to hard, or they don't have the resource. /endsarcasm

YAY! TRADE SPAM IS DOWN!

BOO! PEOPLE ARGUING IS UP!

I went to LA2 this evening, and was pleasently surprised to see almost no trade spam. Then I noticed a lot of people arguing. Then I went to Kamadan1 about 20 minutes later, and I saw more people arguing (but still no trade spam ). Tis very odd... Idle fingers and all that I suppose.

I applaud that enforcing the the rule ANet has reduced almost 100% trade spam in ALL chat. However it ment that spam was transferred to trade channel. And that means traders that don't spam are still being harressed by spamming traders. I suggest they also crack down on any spam. They can easily do it i guess, like checking logs for trade in all chat. If repeated--->ban. If not then they should still put up the notice and hope it will be reduced like their actiuon did now.

ANTI SPAM regulation has been implemented firmly in the EULA, the anti trade in chat not. SPAM induces scroll speed by a factor 2-3 depending on how much they put in their lines. Maybe they should set a limit, 1 line per 20-30 seconds. such a limit is not neccesary in all chat as you want to converse there, and selling their results in ban.

Kamadan Eng Dis1 still the same, last night I logged in. Anet, send in a SWAT team now!

Tis wonderfull IMHO, Ive actually held conversations in places Like Kama and KC (Never really had much love for LA)

Sandly Anet cant ban the General Jerks, Like some said - arguements are up

If you want a real conversation My i suggest some of the least spammy areas like (Ironically) Kodash or Grotto

Now, drok id1 will finally be quiet. No more bots. ;p

You mean I can actually sell my items in peace without seeing my trade message instantly spammed off screen? Someone check the weather report for hell

If people want to argue, so be it. Fair enough, I can always ignore that. I can't ignore not being able to sell anything because I can't keep my sales pitch on screen long enough for anyone to see. Good job Anet. And I wouldn't mind seeing the trade chat be throttled a bit. One message every 20 seconds has the same effect as spamming it 3 times as long as everyone is limited to that one message. This is truly nice for those of us who always tried to sell their things honorably and didn't sink to the level of lame spammers.

I saw some trade spamming in local chat in LA eng district 1 when I was on last night. But not as much as there used to be. Anywhere else I went to was pratically free of trade spam.

Yep.
Bring on the "Let's try and find loopholes to work around it" group
"ALL chat means ALL KINDS OF CHAT damn it!! Including trading!!!!"

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Why do I get the feeling the people who bitched about trade in Local Chat don't even chat in local?

I know I know "Well I use Local Chat ....like once a week to talk to people, but I do most of my chat with my guildies/alliance ...But it's nice to see local chat spam gone ..."

I just have that eerie feeling that's true.

Maybe I'm just imagining that everyone is complaining about trade in local chat because a lot of other people are.

Strength in numbers, eh?

Let them whine. Their arguments are paper thin and I think any reasonable people will know that. This is the way it was supposed to be, otherwise there wouldn't be a separate trade channel. As much crying as the spammers do, this was the right thing to do and they won't be able to change that

I look forward to having actual conversations on a regular basis. Go cry in a corner, spammers.