[Spam] message... can I get some help?

[MoiraesFate]

Is there a way to turn off even being notified of a [spam]? message? So that I don't see it at all? I'm getting so many of them that its really getting annoying. Especially when the chat window is full of nothing but pink "you have [spam]" notifications.I don't want to see that I've received [spam] at all.Thanks so much.

[Eboj]

you can turn the notification off, if you right click on the currently active tab in your chat window there is a check box called spam, untick it and you will not see the notification ever again.

[MoiraesFate]

thank you

[Sprin]

You know what i find interesting, It seems Sony supports these spam messages.  As they recognize them as Spam, with the (SPAM) message, but yet they dont prevent the messages from coming through, they just list them as spam.... If Sony really didn't want them there, it would prevent the message from going through at all.

[Sartredes]

<cite>Winnter@Nagafen wrote:</cite><blockquote>You know what i find interesting, It seems Sony supports these spam messages.  As they recognize them as Spam, with the (SPAM) message, but yet they dont prevent the messages from coming through, they just list them as spam.... If Sony really didn't want them there, it would prevent the message from going through at all.</blockquote>I wouldn't be so sure. I've had some tells incorrectly identified as spam.  Very few. Maybe two since they added the filtering. So maybe they don't want to block legitimate non-spam tells as no filtering is likely going to be perfect.  I agree that I would prefer these messages get sent downstream to the recipient and cripple the plat sellers while freeing the bandwidth from the server for more game-related data, but I just don't think that will happen.

[Rijacki]

<cite>Winnter@Nagafen wrote:</cite><blockquote>You know what i find interesting, It seems Sony supports these spam messages.  As they recognize them as Spam, with the (SPAM) message, but yet they dont prevent the messages from coming through, they just list them as spam.... If Sony really didn't want them there, it would prevent the message from going through at all.</blockquote>The reason for the "(SPAM) Message" is to help prevent false positives.  Those are messages the filter deems as spam (based on its criteria).  You can shut off that notification and, last I remember it being discussed by a dev, for future characters it will be disabled by default. If SOE was supporting having those messages, they wouldn't have spent development time building the filter at all.  The fact the filter exists, the fact you can mark a spam tell that got through as spam and the filter will filter those types in the future, the fact they spent a few weeks and considerable effort fine tuning the filter, and the fact you can shut off the "(SPAM) Message" with the collapsed tells all point to the fact SOE does not support those types of messages.The fact the RMT firms are still trying to get through the filter (and getting banned for it) doesn't mean SOE supports them in any way shape or form.

[Hamervelder]

<cite>Winnter@Nagafen wrote:</cite><blockquote>You know what i find interesting, It seems Sony supports these spam messages.  As they recognize them as Spam, with the (SPAM) message, but yet they dont prevent the messages from coming through, they just list them as spam.... If Sony really didn't want them there, it would prevent the message from going through at all.</blockquote>The system is in place currently to help prevent false-positives.  Sony does not support these spam messages.  After I posted repeatedly in the <a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=373689" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spam Filter Feedback</a> thread, Zoltaroth went so far as to contact me in-game, to test out a few things, and get specific details on what was going through, what was being caught by the filter, etcetera.  That really showed me how much he wanted to help eliminate the problem of spam tells.

[Effie]

<p>Some people's logic just boggles my mind....If SOE supported these messages they would not have implemented a spam filter in the first place.If SOE supported these messages they would not have given players the option to filter them completely.If SOE supported these messages they would not have removed the ability to send private tells from trial accounts.If SOE supported these messages, they would not have implemented a spam filter/folder on your ingame mailbox.The devs have actually been quite active in combatting the RMT spammers in EQ2. </p><p>They seem to have realised that it's both an irritant and inconvenience to their players.</p>

[UlteriorModem]

<p>One of the things that drove me from the game a few years back was all the plat spam and such.</p><p>You got it good now, at least you can filter it out.</p>

[Freddy101]

<p>Ironically they just appear to have compensated for a planned spam blitz of their own for their card game. So while soe now appears to me to have the best gold plat selling spam filter situation in mmporgs they also top the list as the most spammy mmporg when it comes to their own sales messages with the bold yellow text and a loud ding noise that wakes my cat and irritates my wife. It's impossible to filter [even tv's have options to mute commercials]. </p><p>So it was a smart move to reduce un authorized spam more then any mmporg while increasing their own advertising and spam to unheard of levels. It was a way to even the balance. The old spam with their own new spam would have been much more noticeable and irritating. </p>

[Torkema]

A bit off-topic i know, but what i've found from this new wave of "official" messages of LoN is that they made me regard lot less of the real important server messages.In my first days in EQ2 back in 2005, when i heard the bells and saw the yellow text, i stopped to see what it was about, mostly was near a server shutdown, update,  scheduled manteinance, etc. And would naturally camp out in a safe place.But now, with all this LoN messagin, i find myself not paying attention to yellow lettered bell ringed messages, and last week before update, i realized at the very last minute that it was a server down notice.I know i've branched way out of the OP's intentions, but in my humble opinion, if LoN messages and advertisements are here to stay, maybe we can have em coloured diferently and with a different sound.Maybe this has been addressed on another thread, if thats the case, i apologize for messing it up.Torke.

[Amalthea]

The question was asked; the question was answered.  The thread started going in a direction that plenty of other recent threads have already gone in (and at great length), and so I locked it.  <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />If you wish to discuss the matter of the LoN system messages, there are other, more relevent threads that should scratch that itch for ya.