Spam in /ooc and /auction

[girth]

Throttling is a good idea, level restriction is not.

Personally, I'd like to see bodies disappear sooner at lvl 1-4 or so, so I dont have to try to move around or hide corpses to use the bank.

Corpses under level 6 should be disappearing sooner. Do they not?

[Spud]

why not just rate limit anyone under level 5 for the time being? Something like 1 message every 30 seconds.

it wont affect any noobs trying to ask questions in /ooc and will take care of Iyvvllvvllwllvv and Wvvwqggqyvvwlyv.

More sophisticated solutions can come later, but this would be pretty easy to implement id imagine.

[Malrubius]

Originally Posted by Spud [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

why not just rate limit anyone under level 5 for the time being? Something like 1 message every 30 seconds.

it wont affect any noobs trying to ask questions in /ooc and will take care of Iyvvllvvllwllvv and Wvvwqggqyvvwlyv.

More sophisticated solutions can come later, but this would be pretty easy to implement id imagine.

That's not a bad idea for immediate relief, although I think you're right that we ultimately will need more (much more) than this.

If it was even fairly extreme, like one post every 30 seconds if you are under level 5, then that's better for the legit noobs than saying NO posts under level 5. It's still enough to ask your question, read the answer, say thanks, etc.


I think the naming restrictions would be easy to implement as well. Anybody with a bizarre name already on the server gets grandfathered in - it would only be a check during new creations.

Another idea. If you just created a character, you can't create another one on the same account for one hour.

[km2783]

Originally Posted by Malrubius [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Another idea. If you just created a character, you can't create another one on the same account for one hour.

i like this, too. Might irritate me if I make a character in the wrong city, though, but I'm better about it, now lol

[Kinamur1999]

unfortunately this has driven me to turn off all public channels unless i need to auction. not telling people to suck it up and ignore but ooc spam isnt worth having to ignore some jackass every 5 minutes

[mitic]

disable /ooc and /auction for lvls 5 and below

spamer wont waste his time leveling up a toon to lvl5 just to spam for a minute to get banned after

problem solved

[Izzni]

IP banning doesn't work unless you start banning blocks, at which point your entire ISPs might get blocked, which would suck.

[Nedala]

Originally Posted by Malrubius [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Character naming restrictions...
-No letter appears over 2 times in a row.
-No names over 12 (10?) letters in length.

I like this idea

-Nobody under level 5 on either OOC or Auction

I dont like this idea, because /ooc helps new players a lot. Maybe lvl 2 would be ok but not lvl 5. Would still be too much work for most of the spammers to lvl up to 2 each time they got banned. Or it would at least slow the spam down.

-Throttle the rate you can send text to OOC or Auction to something like...no more than 1 message every 5 seconds.

Good idea too imo. Would slow the whole spam down. There is not really a need to write more than 1 message every 5 second in /ooc or /auc.

-Instantly ban the Account (and even the IP) of any abusers.

I believe this is the case already, doesnt help enough. The Population is growing and so there are more people who got banned. They become mad and start to spam the server. The bigger the popolation the bigger the spam gets, i think we need some additional rules for /ooc and /auc like the ones mentioned above.

Another idea. If you just created a character, you can't create another one on the same account for one hour.

This sounds really good to me too, if this is possible.

I think there are enough ways to get rid of the spammers, without making /ooc lvl 5+

[Elendae]

He'll only spam that which is worse since all new players to the server will only be bombarded with a bunch of racist spam. I doubt they'd stick around for very long.

[JayDee]

Leave it how it is for now imo and once we reach 800-1k peak, just remove it altogether.