Chat spam measures shut down multi-line reporting addons
by Mike Schramm 
Oct 25th 2007 at 2:12PM
The latest uprising on the forums (seems like there's one almost every day now, doesn't there?) has to do with what seems to be an anti-chat spam measure on Blizzard's part. Players have discovered that multi-line messages don't work anymore, even in guild and group channels. Spammers are very fond of guild or group inviting folks, and then filling their chat window with ads for less-than-TOS-compliant activities, and Blizzard decided to cut those folks off at the pass.Except that we kind of need those messages. Sure, lots of annoying macros use them, but so do legitimate healing and DPS meter addons. So Slouken says that Blizzard will change things, and messages like these "will be allowed in guild chat and private channels with 25 people or less." Which should cover most exceptions-- you'll still be able to show off the meters in guild and raid chat, but then again, you'll still have to be careful about what guild and raid invitations you accept anyway.
Thanks, Shilarva!
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Guilds, News items
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
FireStar Oct 25th 2007 3:12PM
i haven't seen an issue with dps or healing meter chats lines. is this something new on the ptr?
Duerma Oct 25th 2007 5:34PM
Blizz: "Hi, we want to REALLY show that we hate RPers, so we're going to break the most popular RP mod there is (flagRSP/ImmersionRP/MyRoleplay). Have fun!"
Deusmortis Oct 25th 2007 3:57PM
I've noticed that my healing assignment macros in live don't work anymore. I've had to change them from multi-line to paragraphs, and I've had to break some of them into two separate macros for clarity.
Jellodyne Oct 25th 2007 4:26PM
Good idea to disable this for everyone. You know, because I get a lot of spam from other level 70s in my own guild. Wait, now that I think of it I only get spam from unguilded level 1 characters. If only there were some sophisticated electronic system that could be programmed to apply these changes to affect only those guys.
Urthal Oct 25th 2007 6:14PM
Oh, snap. Guess I'll have to keep on enduring those damage meter reports. -_-
Tekkub Oct 25th 2007 8:10PM
Damage meter spam is still spam. If I gave a rat's about the numbers I'd be running the mod myself.
I welcome our new ant overlords.
Michael Hart Dec 17th 2007 7:04PM
Stop being a cry baby just because you're being pointed out as a useless player in a raid/party. It's not their fault you probably suck.