Don't ban level 10 and lower from chatting. Ban level 10 and lower that are on a freebie account. Free accounts already are banned from trading and mailing, so I imagine its only a few extra lines of code:

If user's account is free then
If user's level < 10 then
user no talkie in chat
End if
End if

Frankly, I don't mind the spam. As someone mentioned before, unless its really horrendous, it is no worse than the mindless halfwits already hanging out in the trade and general channels of Stormwind City who think that the rest of the player base is interested in hearing whatever random thought is bouncing around in their pinheads. Spamming for gold certainly is not worse than hearing insults over asking too little or too much for an item, advertising a trade (any trade, doesn't matter), insulting lowbies for asking where things are, insulting higher levels for trying to sell things from Outland, insulting each other for insulting others, or describing the fantastic dump they just took. I've gotten to where I turn it all off in the capital cities and starting areas.

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