Talking the ears off of these people

[HINDYhat]

Well apparently holding the enter key in chat is enough to activate Ralle's anti-spam mechanism. Even if you don't post a message, simply holding the enter key will silence you. And yes this happens a lot on accident.

Fix please? =o

 

[LiOneSS]

Just remove the friggin thing.

 

[TheBlooddancer]

Seconded, LiO.

If somebody actually is spamming, i am sure that the mod's will take care of that.

 

[LiOneSS]

yeah. And if you type really fast in whispers (aka /w spam PPPPP) it gives the message too.

 

[Ralle]

Naah I am not gonna remove it. It really could be abused hard. Like somebody made a script that opened the sendmessage page 100 times. I have fixed this bug.

 

[~Void~]

Yeah I say just remove it. It's not that hard for a moderator to type /kick <username>.

 

[TheBlooddancer]

Yea, or atleast make it longer or such. Spam is not considered 4 messages. (in this case)

 

[Rising_Dusk]

It will not be removed. Ralle has solved the holding-enter-without-a-message bug.

 

[Pyritie]

Yeah I say just remove it. It's not that hard for a moderator to type /kick <username>.

A bigger issue with that is actually having a chat mod to even be there to begin with.

 

[Rising_Dusk]

The bigger issue is people crying whenever a chat mod actually does his job.

 

[HINDYhat]

When does that happen?

 

[Linaze]

History repeats itself: Dusk scores again.

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Just make it longer. Typing fast = heated conversation, not spam. Its excessively limiting and annoying.

 

[Rising_Dusk]

Maybe you should just have more content in what you say instead of spanning it across so many lines.

 

[Hakeem]

It's a style of talking. Sometimes people want to talk that way. It is completely idiotic to restrict people from talking in a chatroom. The point of this mechanism is to stop:

Like somebody made a script that opened the sendmessage page 100 times.

That is more accurately called "flooding". The key to an anti-flood mechanism is to make it not catch humans, but to catch things like 100 messages per minute, which is way faster than any human could need to send messages.

Solution: make the limit longer. Make it catch bot speed messages, but not human speed messages.

If you don't like how people talk, then why the heck are you in an internet chatroom in the first place?

Sometimes,
Spanning lines,
Is desired.
For effect.

 

[LiOneSS]

Hakeem wins +1 internet.



I mean, it's really limiting. Especially when talking about something important.

 

[Rising_Dusk]

Then you can wait a quarter second and continue what you are saying.. Really, if you are typing something meaningful and are at least typing like, 20 digits per line, you won't ever encounter this antispam system..

 

[LiOneSS]

Many people are used to typing fast, and it's really a hassle to wait.

 

[Rising_Dusk]

All I can say is sorry, but it's crafted in such a fashion that it helps the chat mods more than it hinders the people that somehow manage to bump into it by accident.

 

[HINDYhat]

Oh jeez come on the problem wasn't about people spamming, it was about a bug with the enter key. I think the system is perfectly set right now so as to prevent spammers, because like Dusk said, you can just wait the 0.25 seconds if ever you do hit the limit. It's not that bad. I doubt you'd ever post enough messages to have to wait 3 minutes without noticing the warnings.

 

[Devine]

muhahaha
now you wish you were banned huh?
haha ... lucky me.

 

[Nichita_00]

My suggestion is not on the number of lines, but the content. For example, if you have the SAME content more than X times (let's say 5) in X time (3-5 seconds, maybe?)
you should get a stop, or something, or if it's random spam (1 letter, or gibberish)
You could use a custom dictionary for english, with things like 'lol' 'rofl' etc allowed, so you can keep an internet like chat but cleaner.

 

[Huurka]

My suggestion is not on the number of lines, but the content. For example, if you have the SAME content more than X times (let's say 5) in X time (3-5 seconds, maybe?)
you should get a stop, or something, or if it's random spam (1 letter, or gibberish)
You could use a custom dictionary for english, with things like 'lol' 'rofl' etc allowed, so you can keep an internet like chat but cleaner.

Bad idea.

 

[LiOneSS]

My suggestion is not on the number of lines, but the content. For example, if you have the SAME content more than X times (let's say 5) in X time (3-5 seconds, maybe?)
you should get a stop, or something, or if it's random spam (1 letter, or gibberish)
You could use a custom dictionary for english, with things like 'lol' 'rofl' etc allowed, so you can keep an internet like chat but cleaner.

Too much hassle for nothing.

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

'k then.


But at least say in the error message that we can retrieve our message by hitting Ctrl-Z or whatever the key was.

 

[LiOneSS]

Alt+F4 was the key. Spam excessively to get the desired effect.




No, seriously, maybe just do an autokick system for spammers, instead of not being able to talk for x seconds.

 

[Nichita_00]

I don't have access to the chat anyway, I'm too lazy to turn Zone Alarm off, and this feature doesn't make me want to talk on it anymore