EVE General Discussion

why do you want a serious local chat in jita?
the more messy the better it is, specially for scammers

Even if you block all the spam there's not much good conversation to be had anyway in front of 1000 people

Absolutely agree, I only post this because for a long time people have complained about spamming and there just seems like no solutions have been brought fourth that could work.

Local channel, even Jita's, works as intended. No problem, thus no solution needed.

Algorithm that causes people to get "x" seconds delay between posting reply? Dependent on player numbers in the system?

Why do you even read Jita local? It's kind of a basic intelligence test: If you pay attention to it more than a few minutes you didn’t pass. Local chat isn’t used much in any highsec system anyway (apart from occasional salt harvesting) so purging Jita won’t free a needed or important space/tool/option anyway.

Something close to Nanas idea post but slightly deviated.

Its about unique posts vs spam posts. Spam is the same automated message again and again. You would need to set a chat filter to parse player and player post content for original content and then set a timer to repost said information based on a exponential algorithm much like.... wait for it... jump fatigue. THe more you spam your content, be it identical or even a % of identical, ie you add characters, words, jibberish but your main body is 60, 70, 80 or 90% identical to the last post you add more time till you can post again.

This would allow those who wish to chat normally or can spam a post or two but soon you build up a large timer and you wont see it again for minutes, hours or even days for terrible offenders. A normal conversation flow is truly unique in phrases, words, etc and thereby creating a unique word filter would simply do the trick.

Then you just add the unique words together to get a score in a % of truly unique content. Anything above a certain cut off is labeled "spam" and given a rechat timer internally, if one does so within a set limit like jump fatigue but you are able to re enter your text and the filter cut off is hit then you are given a longer timer, etc, etc until noone sees your spam again.

So given the exponential nature if the repost trigger timer is say 2 mins. You then repost within that two mins which kicks in the algorithm % that says your post is 100% reposted material and the longer fatigue timer kicks in. It now will only allow you to post after 5 mins but if you post within a 5 min time limit of that post if lengthens the post fatigue to say 20 mins with a 20 min cooldown after the next post. You might only ever see true spam maybe 4 or 5 times a day. Or force the person to redo the post uniquely EVERY time they post if with certain unique content % cut offs. These cut offs could be raised or lowered by CCP internally for players or situations.

Such things like contracts and other spam, which is the majority, is rather difficult to redo uniquely as they are all just cut and paste or ctrl +up arrow enter.

Yes scammers need their income too, I mine on occasion but almost never sell ore or minerals, my income is mostly derived from selling goods and ships, selling raw materials is mostly a no, I pay for my account instead of grinding to plex it because it keeps the lights on at CCP.

Plus it free's me up to do what I want when I want, normally for me I do different activities everyday it just depends on my mood or goal I have, just so people know I do normally run with local closed so nah Jita doesn't really bother me and I have no problem with scammers as I do miss a player called 'pricecheck Tony' he was a funny guy in Jita.

You've never been in local with me, have you?

Yeah, but this time it's suggested for aesthetic reasons.