Spam in Party Search
Scarlett Romanov
I'm just curious, can folks be banned for misusing the Party Search? Folks are getting banned for misusing (spamming) the Chat and trade channels. So why not the Party search as well? Take a look at this screenshot taken from Shing Jea. We shouldn't have to look at this no more than we have to look at chat/trade channel spam. (I realize things get a bit hectic during events, but this kind of party search abuse happens all the time and not just during events.
Neo Nugget
They usually close the party search when there are these events. Cmon there are 75 dis+. At least the search is being used:P
Tea Girl
people actually use party search?! O_o
fenix
Please don't start. You guys already QQ'd enough about local. Leave it be.
Brianna
Yeah.. god please do not start up on party search crap, this is a GOOD thing people are using it, for whatever reason that it be, It's being used. FFS everyone complains that no one uses it, then we get this. I say that even if everything was perfect people would still find something to complain about, like.. the looks of an NPC, no one will ever be satisfied lol.
Mangione
Well, if more people begins to use the party search, it will be easier to sell stuff using it (instead of repeating WTS/WTB in trade channel continuously).
Sujoy
Yeah, please don't start, I mean it's so good, having stupid people using the party search system in a stupid manner, which coincidentely annoys other players, BUT HEY! Some of us think it's OK!
/sarcasm
I use the party search system, and having such "spam" doesn't help. Goes to show you who actually "try" to use the new function rather then telling other: "Oh let it be, you got local chat back!" Cause clearly then don't use the party search system themselves, or else why would they say that HUMM?
/sarcasm
I use the party search system, and having such "spam" doesn't help. Goes to show you who actually "try" to use the new function rather then telling other: "Oh let it be, you got local chat back!" Cause clearly then don't use the party search system themselves, or else why would they say that HUMM?
Tea Girl
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Originally Posted by Sujoy
Yeah, please don't start, I mean it's so good, having stupid people using the party search system in a stupid manner, which coincidentely annoys other players, BUT HEY! Some of us think it's OK!
/sarcasm I use the party search system, and having such "spam" doesn't help. Goes to show you who actually "try" to use the new function rather then telling other: "Oh let it be, you got local chat back!" Cause clearly then don't use the party search system themselves, or else why would they say that HUMM? |
/sarcasm
Sujoy
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Originally Posted by Tea Girl
i so agree that anet should police everyone's interweb activities more
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Navaros
Lighten up.
The stuff they posted isn't spam anyhow. It's not actually possible to spam party search window.
Anet started going "Big Brother" on Local because "Local is for socializing" according to Anet.
Now people are using the party search window to socialize and that should be punishable!? That's absurd.
The stuff they posted isn't spam anyhow. It's not actually possible to spam party search window.
Anet started going "Big Brother" on Local because "Local is for socializing" according to Anet.
Now people are using the party search window to socialize and that should be punishable!? That's absurd.
lyra_song
As long as its not racist or profane or scamming, its ok by me.
Stupid is fine.
Stupid is fine.
Willow O Whisper
well it's better having the abuse there than the IN UR FACE channels.
drago34
Stupid people will always be stupid and find new ways to be stupid once they can't use the current.
Kook~NBK~
1. More people look at the Party Search window than most people think - too bad many people who are trading don't realize this. Most of the people I've talked to about it say they look at PS as soon as they enter town, especally the trading centers.
2. A-Net's craking down on Trade chat in local was never intended as a license for pea-brained juveniles to post moronic garbage.
3. The reason that Trade spam in local got so bad in the first place was because no one put a stop to it in the first place - a couple dozen suspensions in May of 2005 would have nipped the problem in the bud and the community aspect wouldn't have suffered nearly as much.
4. Thinking that it's OK to abuse the PS window for any reason (in this case the festival) is how a small problem like this turns into a big one. I hope that A-Net takes a firm stand on detering this kind of nonsense right now. Speaking for myself, when I open PS, I want to see what's for sale or what someone's buying - Not some political flame-bait or juvenile delinqunet's idea of comedy or other nonsense. (Did the person in that SS reallyneed to let everyone know they were AFK?)
2. A-Net's craking down on Trade chat in local was never intended as a license for pea-brained juveniles to post moronic garbage.
3. The reason that Trade spam in local got so bad in the first place was because no one put a stop to it in the first place - a couple dozen suspensions in May of 2005 would have nipped the problem in the bud and the community aspect wouldn't have suffered nearly as much.
4. Thinking that it's OK to abuse the PS window for any reason (in this case the festival) is how a small problem like this turns into a big one. I hope that A-Net takes a firm stand on detering this kind of nonsense right now. Speaking for myself, when I open PS, I want to see what's for sale or what someone's buying - Not some political flame-bait or juvenile delinqunet's idea of comedy or other nonsense. (Did the person in that SS reallyneed to let everyone know they were AFK?)
Neo Nugget
I think people are just itching to type i like pie so that 85 districts can see it
Xenex Xclame
I don't think its possible to spam the party search.
Isn't spamming repeating (mostly) the same message over and over again in a short amount of time and by doing so disrupt normal communication?
Isn't spamming repeating (mostly) the same message over and over again in a short amount of time and by doing so disrupt normal communication?
Neo Nugget
Well i cant sell anything in shing jea party search anymore /cheer....*cough *cough....
WildmouseX
people arn't being baned for spaming - they are being baned for putting TRADE spam in ALL chat... the reson why we have a seperate trade and all chanell is so that people who don't want to buy anything can turn off the trade channel - when trade spam is in all chat they lose that ability and therefore there is an abuse of the system......party search is seperate, and there is not an invasion onto people who are not actively looking at it.'
and bush has destroyed more personal liberty then every other president, with the exception of lincoln - so i don't see much of a problem with spreading a little truth anyway.
and bush has destroyed more personal liberty then every other president, with the exception of lincoln - so i don't see much of a problem with spreading a little truth anyway.
Arren Knez
its not really a problem, you can just close that section of the party search and if your in a main city your gonna be mostly interested in the trade section perhaps the guild section.
gene terrodon
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Originally Posted by Brianna
Yeah.. god please do not start up on party search crap, this is a GOOD thing people are using it, for whatever reason that it be, It's being used. FFS everyone complains that no one uses it, then we get this. I say that even if everything was perfect people would still find something to complain about, like.. the looks of an NPC, no one will ever be satisfied lol.
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If that's how it's gonna be "used," I'd much rather see it not used.
Amy Awien
Maybe an additional section, 'off topic' / 'absurd', for the PS? Could be fun.
Lord-UWR
CRAZY!!! People ACTUALLY use the Party Search!!!
LoL, and it is usually in outposts like LA, or KC, or Kamadan. The Party Search is like NEVER used in Mission outposts, geez.
LoL, and it is usually in outposts like LA, or KC, or Kamadan. The Party Search is like NEVER used in Mission outposts, geez.
mr_groovy
You call that spam? I thought there would be as much as 1 url to an ebay company. Jeez lighten up already.
jrk247
zOMG sum1s d00in sumthin ron I mus post it on gooroo!!1!
This is really funny imo, people bitch at how no one uses the party search and now people have to open every tab just to find people that are just trying to have fun and whine about it. WTF already! Stop trying to bitch at everything that you think is bad.
Come on let people have some fun FFS it's a GAME!
This is really funny imo, people bitch at how no one uses the party search and now people have to open every tab just to find people that are just trying to have fun and whine about it. WTF already! Stop trying to bitch at everything that you think is bad.
Come on let people have some fun FFS it's a GAME!
EinherjarMx
BLASPHEMY, HOW DARE THEY? THEY SHOULD BE BURNED ALIVE AND FED TO THE HYENAS /sarcasm
c'mon ppl, stop beetching, if you wanna stick to the goddamn rules go to the army, this is just a game FFS
c'mon ppl, stop beetching, if you wanna stick to the goddamn rules go to the army, this is just a game FFS
Alex Morningstar
Considering there are some 70+ dists on special events... that wasn't much usage of the party window that I was seeing.
Sol Deathgard
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You consider that nonsense "using" the party search?
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Kook~NBK~
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Originally Posted by Sol Deathgard
As for the guy that said that the people that use it bring it up in big cities, yeah & if it's like all the times I do that too, they close it imediatly becuase it's completely empty 95% of the time.
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Diablo???
the scale of this "abuse", as annoying as it may seem, pales in comparison to the disaster that was on local chat. it doesn't need a filter yet.
combatchuck
It is astounding to me how much people will complain. So what if you find something annoying? I think the whiners are far more annoying than the spammers or people that are "spamming" (read: goofing off) in the party search window. I don't care if you don't like it, you're just worse attention RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GOs than the people who are doing it.
I should stop now, I have a long rant built up, but it's very ... "colorful" ...
I should stop now, I have a long rant built up, but it's very ... "colorful" ...
Sujoy
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Originally Posted by jrk247
zOMG sum1s d00in sumthin ron I mus post it on gooroo!!1!
This is really funny imo, people bitch at how no one uses the party search and now people have to open every tab just to find people that are just trying to have fun and whine about it. WTF already! Stop trying to bitch at everything that you think is bad. Come on let people have some fun FFS it's a GAME! |
Yes considering it's just a game, let's have fun and use the local chat to spam trade! Wait, what's this... people whinning about it? HA! Those whinning bitchs can't do nothing cept... whine! Screw them, FFS It's just a game, and I'm having FUN! Wait what's this... MY ACCOUNT GOT BANNED FFS! RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GO! Now I can't have fun! So to have fun! I will do the same thing cept write stupid stuff in the Party Search, hopefully others will join ME! So WE CAN HAVE FUN! Skeet skeet skeet!
/endstupidity
Translation : This is a similar case, if indeed it does extend to such proportions, rather then trying to improve the Party Search system (which is terribly flawed), we are actually making it worse and thus delaying any improvements. Now I, just as much as anybody, enjoy having fun, but after seeing what has happend to Local Chat, I tell myself, maybe it would be wise not to repeat such a thing?
Also how are we whinning when we are just trying to keep things clean, in fact it's people that encourage delinquency that end up making things worse.
My 2 cents.