Goldsellers and gold buyers beware

SpaceGirl wrote:
>
> I don't much care what happens outside of WoW when it comes to gold
> and characters, but what really pisses me off is the trade channel
> and /say being flooded with people trying to sell gold or characters.
> Blizzard have full control over what is posted, but for some reason
> they never get around to filtering it. I play on a PvP/RP server...
> why the heck can't they filter all "www." or ".com" /says from the
> game? Pretty much ruins the RP experience when you are stood in
> Stormwind next to someone spamming some gold site openly in /say for
> 20 minutes (yes you can /ignore, but why should we have to?).

Apropos of nothing, and not getting involved in the legal discussion,
but Blizzard has implemented many different methods to prevent many
kinds of gold spam. The reason it's happening in /say is that they've
actually made it *much* more difficult to gold spam by other methods.

I cannot recommend the "SpamSentry" AddOn enough. It uses the built-
in
Blizzard Spam-reporting method (did you know you can right-click on a
name in /say, select "Report Spam", and it will both report them and
it
will auto-/ignore their *entire account*, right?) to keep you from
seeing those messages, and give you a one-click (well, two-click, once
on the "Click [here] to report this post." message from SpamSentry,
and
once on the "Report" button to finalize the report) method to report
goldspammers. Since using SpamSentry, I've never seen more than one
post from any goldspammer, since it's a quick two clicks to repor
them.
Even without SpamSentry, you can right-click in /say and report/ignore
that way.

So, basically, Blizzard *does* get around to doing something about the
spam, and they've made it much harder to spam, and much easier to
report/ignore spam.

--
Nik

On Jan 8, 1:05 pm, Nikolas Landauer wrote:
> SpaceGirl wrote:
>
> > I don't much care what happens outside of WoW when it comes to gold
> > and characters, but what really pisses me off is the trade channel
> > and /say being flooded with people trying to sell gold or characters.
> > Blizzard have full control over what is posted, but for some reason
> > they never get around to filtering it. I play on a PvP/RP server...
> > why the heck can't they filter all "www." or ".com" /says from the
> > game? Pretty much ruins the RP experience when you are stood in
> > Stormwind next to someone spamming some gold site openly in /say for
> > 20 minutes (yes you can /ignore, but why should we have to?).
>
> Apropos of nothing, and not getting involved in the legal discussion,
> but Blizzard has implemented many different methods to prevent many
> kinds of gold spam. The reason it's happening in /say is that they've
> actually made it *much* more difficult to gold spam by other methods.
>
> I cannot recommend the "SpamSentry" AddOn enough. It uses the built-
> in
> Blizzard Spam-reporting method (did you know you can right-click on a
> name in /say, select "Report Spam", and it will both report them and
> it
> will auto-/ignore their *entire account*, right?) to keep you from
> seeing those messages, and give you a one-click (well, two-click, once
> on the "Click [here] to report this post." message from SpamSentry,
> and
> once on the "Report" button to finalize the report) method to report
> goldspammers. Since using SpamSentry, I've never seen more than one
> post from any goldspammer, since it's a quick two clicks to repor
> them.
> Even without SpamSentry, you can right-click in /say and report/ignore
> that way.
>
> So, basically, Blizzard *does* get around to doing something about the
> spam, and they've made it much harder to spam, and much easier to
> report/ignore spam.
>
> --
> Nik

The other thing you can do to avoid the spam is to avoid the more
populated areas. Think about it, where do you always run into people
with the /say spam? Orgrimmar and Ironforge, right? Maybe the
occasional Stormwind or Undercity spam. Its always in the places
where people congregate too, innkeepers, flight masters, auction
houses, and malboxes.

Darnassus, Thunder Bluff, Exodar, and Silvermoon are all cities where
you find very few people in, its not worth the spammers time to go
here when they will only hit a small audience. Not to mention with
Silvermoon you have 2 inns, 2 auction houses, 2 banks, 11 mailboxes,
and the flight master is outside, way out of /say radius of what few
people are in Silvermoon. I believe Exodar was set up with the same
idea, decentralize the city so you don't get everyone congregating in
the same areas.

At level 70 there should be no reason for your main to visit one of
the old cities anymore, other than looking for something on the AH,
which can easily be done by an AH alt. I only ever go back when I
need a crafter and they happen to be in one of the old cities.
Shattrath fulfills my needs for a major city. A place for my hearth,
a bank, and plenty of mailboxes and vendors.

My bank/AH alt is set up in Silvermoon. No spam and I never have to
deal with 10 people all standing on the mailbox/auctioneer/banker.
Not to mention they put the auctioneers up on pedastals so they can't
be stood upon.