FIX for players who cannot use "ignore" in game

SadisticSavior · April 2014

So obvious in hindsight, but it had me fooled. Found this on another forum:

The spambots are gaining intelligence. In Auridon we encountered several who would create enough space in their message that their own name was invisible, without enlarging the chat window; later, a second bot utilized a clever method to create a false-name in the chat window.

If you can't right-click a name to ignore, scroll up a bit higher. The bot is generating space, and then typing in a decoy name -- it's just regular text, but it looks like a second user. In this instance, the user was something along the lines of ATMfourb or some such nonsense, but it threw out [superman] as a mask. Users were trying to ignore [superman], only to discover that right-clicking wouldn't work.

If you encounter this, scroll up a bit, and look for the previous poster (likely using a canned message -- in this case, '***?'). Ignore and report THAT user, and we all win.

dpgirl · April 2014

go to esoui.com ... get SpamFilter.
After you install it, edit the SpamFilter.lua file, and change the top data section for defaults to what is below... this will auto-ignore anyone who says something that matches a filter... which these settings get current spammers. Have to add more to the list I'm sure as they change their text or website URLs.
data =
{
["GoldSeller1"] = "--WWW%.MMOWIN%.COM--",
["goldah%.com"] = goldah%.com,
["GOLDAH%.COM"] = GOLDAH%.COM,
["G4EZ%.COM"] = G4EZ%.COM,
["g4ez%.com"] = g4ez%.com,
["tesgoldmall"] = TESG0LDMALL,
["goldceo"] = GOLDCEO%.COM,
["currencyoffer"] = currencyoffer,
}

snowmanflvb14_ESO · April 2014

ah nice idea on the filter sweet

Paks_ESO · April 2014

Great ideas, but please make sure you ignore AND report. We don't need them in their own little bubble. We need to reduce their numbers while making their lives as hard as possible in game.

MercyKilling · April 2014

Paks_ESO wrote: »

Great ideas, but please make sure you ignore AND report. We don't need them in their own little bubble. We need to reduce their numbers while making their lives as hard as possible in game.

This. Ever so much this. I can't stress enough that if you don't take action to rid the game of as many as possible, you don't get any right to complain about gold spammers. I don't care if it's a thirty step process, I'm going to do it every time.

Willow · April 2014

Make your font size 11 and then make your chat box as wide as it will go. You then can scroll and get the name for those spammers that are texting long messages.

Greydog · April 2014

I've found that 12 works as well and is easier to read.