Upcoming Spam-Prevention Features

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Bombardem — Sat, 12 May 2007 03:50:13 GMT

rofl, this is the best they could come up with, making the players do all the work?

This will do nothing to stop gold spam. I already have all these features from addons, and I still get spam every few minutes.

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persheal — Sat, 12 May 2007 03:50:12 GMT

the good part about their changes : it will work on a per account basis, something add-ons weren't able to do.

I still hope add-ons will be able to hook to their handlers and filter out the spam.

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OlafThor — Sat, 12 May 2007 03:50:11 GMT

The only way this is going to work is if someone reports a gold spam, then in the next 5 secs after the report is received they do an IP track on it to find out where its coming from and block that IP from ever accessing the game again.

Though that will only do so much...

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Bombardem — Sat, 12 May 2007 03:50:10 GMT

Notice this "fix" doesnt stop the spammers, it just gets them banned if they do it. So blizzard still makes out like a bandit because the gold sellers are forced to continue to purchase game cd keys. If blizzard was truly interested in stopping the spam they would implement limitation on the number of whispers characters could send per minute. Even a 10 per minute limit would be more than enough for even the fastest typists conversing back and forth in chat, yet stop the massive spamming we see now.

But they arent interested in a fix, simply maintaining the status quo. 320,000 new characters were created last week alone. Want to bet how many of those never advanced beyond level 1?

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creepy_inc — Sat, 12 May 2007 03:50:09 GMT

The addon "SpamMeNot" works like a charm

http://wow-en.curse-gaming.com/downloads/addons/chat/spammenot/

Haven't had a single spam since i installed it.

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WNxHellRaver — Sat, 12 May 2007 03:50:08 GMT

Aint it great that Blizzard is always one step behind mod makers. Seeing as all these features are already being used in mods like Easy Report etc

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stefanda — Sat, 12 May 2007 03:50:07 GMT

Banning an IP from accessing the game will not work for those that have varying IP addresses for each (internet) session. The risk of blocking valid players (that receive that blocked address in a later session) is too high.

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dhask — Sat, 12 May 2007 03:50:06 GMT

They're, uh, doing that rate limit thing. It's right up there in the blue text quoted. I guess they are truly interested, eh?

And they're also adding a new option to SendAddonMessage() so that AddOns can still communicate at the current throttle speed without any visible spam to users.

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Shpongled — Sat, 12 May 2007 03:50:05 GMT

I hope they make it so level 1s can no longer invite to group as well, that gets really friggin' annoying. :P