Trade chat – we all love to hate it

Posted by Tepisor in Uncategorized | 4 comments

You know that I’m talk­ing about, right? I’m sure you do!

Please raise your hands all those of you who didn’t read at least once in your gam­ing expe­ri­ence the end­less bull­shit that rolls in /2.

No hands up?

Good.

Now, the sit­u­a­tion is not peach and roses on [EU]Daggerspine either. Oh no, we sure have our share of bored peo­ple here.

I’ve iden­ti­fied 4 types of spam rolling in trade chat:

1. Dirge (and vari­a­tions) spam;
2. Craft­ing and recruit­ment spam;
3. Bored spam;
4. Gold spam;

“WTF, you left gold spam­ming last?” Yes. Because it’s the far less worst type. In the last two weeks, I didn’t see more than 10 adverts total. Well, yeah, it’s true, I don’t play a lot and when I do I’m usu­ally out of towns or in BGs. But, you know, used to be far worst so I’m glad that stopped.

More spam­ming fun after the jump. Ni-hao!

 

Dirge spam – it’s Dirgetastic!

Dirge spam dis­tin­guishes its self to be a real plague. I dare say it become a social phe­nom­e­non. Nowa­days I’m sure that if you try and make an hon­est buck sell­ing it you would get at least 5 instant reports for spamming.

On other servers, Dirge is replaced by dif­fer­ent com­bi­na­tions, such as Paul­drons of Wild Magic, Mur­loc Movie titles, “2girls1<insert item name>.com”, “the Nick­er” and many, many, many, many oth­ers. Which is, in fact, a really inter­est­ing sub­ject to talk about. How can peo­ple on so wide-spread servers have the same behav­ior? The answer is out there to be found and I’m sure it involves a lot of psy­chol­ogy and human behav­ior analysis.

But! Let’s move to the next type of spam:

Craft­ing and recruit­ment spam

Hehehe, prob­a­bly one of the best spam there is. The type of peo­ple that do this are the “oh, sorry, I lagged and pressed my macro but­ton sev­eral times / sec­ond just to make sure it works. But just look how many I can craft, and cheap too!” type. You met peo­ple like this right? I sure did!

I also saw Guild Recruit­ments in the won­der­ful trade chan­nel and I don’t mind. Up to a point of course. Adver­tis­ing your guild is ok, as long as you don’t repeat the same mes­sage over and over again, sev­eral times in a sin­gle minute, just to make sure you reach each and every one of the play­ers on the servers. /facepalm I know you’re eager about your “newly formed guild with expe­ri­enced play­ers that plan to raid end-game whisp me for inv” or inpa­tient to fill your raid posi­tions with new and fresh meat, but before you jump like a fat kind on candy to the trade chat, stop and think for a sec­ond on what you are about to do.

Bored spam

Bored spam is a spam that comes out of bore­dom. Really, it is. Peo­ple, at a point in their game-play, get bored. That’s a well known fact. Not with the game, but just at a cer­tain hour, cer­tain place, they get bored. And start to social­ize with other peo­ple. And what bet­ter place to chat than the trade chat? “We’re trad­ing knowl­edge, you igno­rant baboon!”. “Yeah, and your mother is fat!”. “no u!”.

And bored peo­ple tend to come up with the most crazy ideas ever! Like, imag­ine this: what if we were to improve the Dirge spam, by start­ing a sen­tence with “anal” and then link­ing a skill? Now wouldn’t that be fun? Yes, of course it would be! Let’s start doing it for sev­eral hours with­out inter­rup­tion! Oh, and let’s repeat the same thing that some other ran­dom guy already said! Yeah, awe­some­sauce! “anal First Aid”, “anal Sap”, “anal Exe­cute”, “anal Silence”, “anal Rup­ture” and many many many more have flooded the trade chat. Some­times I won­der what the GMs are doing, cause these things last for at least 1 hour every damned day.

/gasp

But Tepisor, teach us what to do!

You have two options:

1. Start report­ing and ignor­ing all the peo­ple involved in the spam;
2. Get some addons to solve your prob­lems, like Dirge Spam Blocker, Annoy­ing Spam Blocker or Spam­MeNot;

Con­clu­sions

Don’t spam. kkthnxbai

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