EVE General Discussion

people will just make alts and putting a restriction on posts just cripples interaction and the social aspect, who even uses local anyway

I got an idea. You create a channel called the anti-spam channel or something. Then you are mod and can kick people.

Then you spam that channel link in local to get people to join your channel which is free of spam!

Fight spam with spam.

Well, no, I am not. That's you unable to cope with my opposition. And again, no, you can not remove spam without removing the scams, because they are mostly the same. You can try to twist it all you want, but most the absolute majority of spam comes from scammers. You want to deny that? Good luck!

And it's funny how you predictably call me a scammer, even though I'm not. Y'If you want to remove spwm, then block people. That's the solution to your absolutely personal problem.

Thousands of others are able to deal with it, yet you special person need to makema thread about it. I know there is no way to make you realize you're not special or even average, but pointing out that you fail to do what tens of thousands can do might tell you something.

It's not that it's too much effort, btu it's a pointless waste of time that does little to block people's alts. Stick in a "block every alt created on this account" function and it's less of a problem, but would still be a pointless mechanic to preserve. CCP make changes to make what we do easier, it's why you can now right click 100 items and sell them all in one go. It's why you can copy an EFT fitting and click a single button in game to import it. Effectively the only difference here is that you're crying about this one either because you like to spam or more likely because you're a massive troll who would argue regardless of what is said. That can be resolved though, using that handy block function. *block* One troll down.

No, they aren't. The laziest players copy-paste scams. Decent scams require no spam.

Thousands of people put up with it, that doesn't mean they wouldn't like to see it gone.

I honestly don't believe it would. Spamming isn't the only or even the best method of scamming. And it seems like spamming because it is in fact spamming. Someone posting the same piece of text every 30 seconds for a whole day is spamming. That it's made worse by there being 500 characters (not people, a lot of these will be alts of other scammers) doesn't mean it's not spam in itself.

Wait, what? Are you saying that because CCP can't make a chat filter that they shouldn't improve the chat by removing mass spam? Deos this apply to the rest of the game? Maybe CCP should just stop making changes altogether if you think it's a bad thing for devs to dev. They wasted their time changing the overview from plusses to triangles, and somehow making local chat better for socialisng would be more of a waste?

This is where someone says "lolhighseclocal". Like ANYTHING in local in highsec is worth reading. Keep it open for intel outside of highsec/hubs and ignore it any other time.

You are paying the Dev from your own pocket ?

Sure, but most you have to know about in advance. I like the idea of flying about chatting with the locals with new people flying past any time. That being ruined by people saturating the chat with spam messages hoping for one or two idiots to fall for their copy-paste scam just seems like a waste to me.

Wait, you actually look at local in highsec?

I think i have narrowed down the problem.

why not join a player corp and make some friends? then you wont care about local

A toon in amarr eh, is your alt Spaceship Barbie by any chance?