Suggestion for dealing with spam bots - add a text filter
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Spam bots advertising orb sales are a major annoyance, ignoring them doesn't work because their bot creates a new character every couple minutes, and since anyone can freely create an account, GGG can't reliably ban them. However, if players were given a text filter as part of their ignore options, such that they could type in a string of text and ignore any chat that contains that text string, it would allow players to effectively block advertisements much more easily, as advertisers don't manually change the text of their ads as often, and when they do it's usually only to avoid the built-in filter that the game has to censor either links or whatever limited phrases GGG themselves enters in.
Example: #GhkfhgkG: Price dropped!^.^Cheap & Super fast & Safe Orbs Here: (name of site, not going to repeat it here). Player then enters into their filter "Price dropped!^.^Cheap & Super fast & Safe Orbs Here". That part of the message is the same every time, so once that is added to the filter, the player simply doesn't see any chat that contains that phrase. At the very least, it'll last a couple days instead of a couple minutes. This is also more effective than GGG directly blocking phrases or links, as advertisers are then immediately notified and respond by changing a couple letters in the message, and GGG doesn't have the manpower to keep up, and even if they did it would just be an endless back and forth waste of effort, whereas players doing it themselves won't notify the advertisers and therefore not cause them to change instantly. Last bumped on Jul 5, 2020, 8:58:22 AM
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+1
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and then bots start evolving making messages like "pric.e dropped", "pr1c3 dr0pp3d" or "price_dropped" making all their messages unique so your chat filter will be full in a few hours
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"Correct, it's just as effective as the Block Player function when dealing with spammers. Computer specifications:
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" The bots change their messages because GGG censors it on their end and it won't let them type it in as is. Players using their own filters won't give any indication to the botter that anything has happened. Also changing it requires manual input which again would make it a matter of hours or days before the message gets changed as opposed to a couple minutes from ignoring a player. | |
" Just remove Tencent :( The most bots came until GGG get in with Tencent |
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