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CCP, any way you can remove cut and paste from local chanel?
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Dinsdale Pirannha
Pirannha Corp
#1 - 2012-09-10 15:21:31 UTC
CCP, don't know if you have the capability to do it, but is it possible to remove the ability to cut an paste from a system's local channel? Leave all other channels as is, but make spammers of local have to work by typing repeating long messages by hand.

I imagine many many people, be they in high sec or null, would find this to be a most agreeable feature.

And people posting against this, please don't suggest merely blocking spammers.
That may work in Jita or or other hubs, but does not work when a fleet of 500 jumps into a system and starts spamming local.

People want to flood local either to run scams or to meta-game by locking up a system's processing resources, I can see the value of that. But to allow them to merely cut and paste, that is way too easy.

This is one of the game's annoyances that though small, is still an ever-present thing.
Andski
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#2 - 2012-09-10 15:22:30 UTC
"control-up"

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War Kitten
Panda McLegion
#3 - 2012-09-10 15:26:13 UTC
ITT, OP does not understand how computer input works.

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Machiavellian Space Bastards
#4 - 2012-09-10 15:28:02 UTC
Andski wrote:
"control-up"


beat me to it Sad

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SealteamXI
Z-Co.
#5 - 2012-09-10 15:29:21 UTC
Implying they don't all use bots anyway.
Dinsdale Pirannha
Pirannha Corp
#6 - 2012-09-10 15:29:32 UTC
War Kitten wrote:
ITT, OP does not understand how computer input works.



Maybe I don't.
But that does not mean that CCP cannot conceive of some manner to stop it.
Pretty everything can be programmed, if there is a will and available expertise.
Istvaan Shogaatsu
Guiding Hand Social Club
#7 - 2012-09-10 16:12:49 UTC
Your suggestion would negatively affect the income of Jita scammers. Since Jita scammers only exist in Jita, they are an endangered species, and must be protected.
Chribba
Otherworld Enterprises
Otherworld Empire
#8 - 2012-09-10 16:13:14 UTC
Just start banning the bots instead...

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TheBreadMuncher
Protus Correction Facility Inc.
#9 - 2012-09-10 16:15:02 UTC
Chribba wrote:
Just start banning the bots instead...


Yes, start with mining bots. Those in ungankable ships such as dreadnoughts would be a good start.

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Petrus Blackshell
Rifterlings
#10 - 2012-09-10 16:21:13 UTC
Quote:
CCP, any way you can make Eve's UI even crappier?

FTFY.

OP, remove cut and paste from local, and you still have:

  • Ctrl+up
  • Keymash spam ("asdfsdklfjhaslkhfuefsaeoifhaebjfashjefgawelifbsdkfbwelan")
  • Typing macros (I hit Ctrl+Shift+` and it types "EVERYONE IN SYSTEM SUCKS")


All of these are really easy and convenient for local spammers to do. Removing cut and paste from local would only be to the detriment of people who legitimately want to paste something there, and would me another gotcha to the Eve UI -- which we really don't need.

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Viddles
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#11 - 2012-09-10 16:25:27 UTC
The OP has his heart in the right place.

I would remove the CTRL-UP functionality in Jita... leave it working everywhere else.

CCP already removed Agents and asteroid belts from Jita... they're not afraid to change that system to improve gameplay.

I would also remove the functionality that allows players to insert carriage returns into chat posts. This is almost exclusively used by scammers & spammers.
Toshiroma McDiesel
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#12 - 2012-09-10 16:26:51 UTC
TheBreadMuncher wrote:
Chribba wrote:
Just start banning the bots instead...


Yes, start with mining bots. Those in ungankable ships such as dreadnoughts would be a good start.



Wow, did you just accuse Chribba of being a bot?

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Desert Ice78
Gryphons of the Western Wind
#13 - 2012-09-10 16:55:08 UTC
Select spammer in local, right click name and select block.

Rinse and repeat as required.

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Lady Ayeipsia
BlueWaffe
#14 - 2012-09-10 17:10:02 UTC
Viddles wrote:

I would also remove the functionality that allows players to insert carriage returns into chat posts. This is almost exclusively used by scammers & spammers.


This is a horrible suggestion. We would lose the capacity to make ordered lists. You've never created an item list with 1 item per line in a single chat post? This can be useful for posting multiple kills, items, characters, corps, etc.

The alternative is seeing the user name append each item in the list as they post 1 item per return or a jumbled list.

Just because you do not use a feature and have had limited negative experiences with it does not mean the feature is useless or only used in that negative connotation.
David Estarra
Starside Lost
#15 - 2012-09-10 17:19:56 UTC
TheBreadMuncher wrote:
Chribba wrote:
Just start banning the bots instead...


Yes, start with mining bots. Those in ungankable ships such as dreadnoughts would be a good start.


Oh no he didn't...

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LilRemmy
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#16 - 2012-09-10 17:21:03 UTC
stop reading Jita local.
Zindela
Aegeonix Systems
#17 - 2012-09-10 18:41:58 UTC
LilRemmy wrote:
stop reading Jita local.


And we have a winner!
Beekeeper Bob
Beekeepers Anonymous
#18 - 2012-09-10 18:50:08 UTC
Dinsdale Pirannha wrote:
CCP, don't know if you have the capability to do it, but is it possible to remove the ability to cut an paste from a system's local channel? Leave all other channels as is, but make spammers of local have to work by typing repeating long messages by hand.

I imagine many many people, be they in high sec or null, would find this to be a most agreeable feature.

And people posting against this, please don't suggest merely blocking spammers.
That may work in Jita or or other hubs, but does not work when a fleet of 500 jumps into a system and starts spamming local.

People want to flood local either to run scams or to meta-game by locking up a system's processing resources, I can see the value of that. But to allow them to merely cut and paste, that is way too easy.

This is one of the game's annoyances that though small, is still an ever-present thing.



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James Amril-Kesh
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#19 - 2012-09-10 18:53:10 UTC
Dinsdale Pirannha wrote:
War Kitten wrote:
ITT, OP does not understand how computer input works.



Maybe I don't.
But that does not mean that CCP cannot conceive of some manner to stop it.
Pretty everything can be programmed, if there is a will and available expertise.

Yeah, it does.

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Cede Forster
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#20 - 2012-09-10 19:00:03 UTC
when you are at it:

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