Option to ignore players

[synaris]

perhaps the owner of the realm could deny speaking permissions to people on the public chat.

i can't help but be against the principle though. does it stop there? or does this feature suddenly creep into every chat channel? it goes against the spirit of the game.

[LostJustice]

perhaps the owner of the realm could deny speaking permissions to people on the public chat.

i can't help but be against the principle though. does it stop there? or does this feature suddenly creep into every chat channel? it goes against the spirit of the game.

I have already been doing this. Issue is, the person once banned, goes and makes a new account at a chaterstone like brodgar and continues to spam the channel and make the game unpleasant for everyone else. Hence the suggestion. At this point, it just griefing something that is meant to help new players and the ability to communicate. It was never a problem to begin with until a few days back when particularly another group turns on a music bot and floods the chat with nothing but spam to the point where people trying to communicate can no longer communicate.

Just to give insight, the person in question today created several accounts, turned on a chat bot that continuously sent random links and spammed with random commentary on the links while stating insulting comments continuously.

[kris_hole]

perhaps the owner of the realm could deny speaking permissions to people on the public chat.

i can't help but be against the principle though. does it stop there? or does this feature suddenly creep into every chat channel? it goes against the spirit of the game.

I have already been doing this. Issue is, the person once banned, goes and makes a new account at a chaterstone like brodgar and continues to spam the channel and make the game unpleasant for everyone else. Hence the suggestion. At this point, it just griefing something that is meant to help new players and the ability to communicate. It was never a problem to begin with until a few days back when particularly another group turns on a music bot and floods the chat with nothing but spam to the point where people trying to communicate can no longer communicate.

Just to give insight, the person in question today created several accounts, turned on a chat bot that continuously sent random links and spammed with random commentary on the links while stating insulting comments continuously.

perhaps the owner of the realm could deny speaking permissions to people on the public chat.

i can't help but be against the principle though. does it stop there? or does this feature suddenly creep into every chat channel? it goes against the spirit of the game.

For the public chats defending against spam bots really doesn't go against the spirit of the game. it defends against a problem that any online game has. This is why other online games have things like chat restrictions. I agree though it should be IP based. It should also not inform the person that they have been banned, they should see everything as normal as if their messages are going through just there is nobody to receive them.

[Ants]

This has been a reoccurring problem in public realm chats. The ban option is nice but the issue has to relate more to the ability to easily create an account and access the public realm chat. Some suggestions posted here such as ignore option I feel is needed in some sorts but I think another option that is also needed is a 24-48h delay for new characters to access the public realm chat or even 2-4 hour delay is sufficient. I think that would solve a lot of the issues or at least deter this type of behavior.

*Edit*: Also another thought, add the ability to /banip which will ban the ip of the person rather than just the account. We do not need to see the IP, this can be handled on server side.

Not everyone has a static IP. Many trolls could change their IP and come right back.

[LostJustice]

This has been a reoccurring problem in public realm chats. The ban option is nice but the issue has to relate more to the ability to easily create an account and access the public realm chat. Some suggestions posted here such as ignore option I feel is needed in some sorts but I think another option that is also needed is a 24-48h delay for new characters to access the public realm chat or even 2-4 hour delay is sufficient. I think that would solve a lot of the issues or at least deter this type of behavior.

*Edit*: Also another thought, add the ability to /banip which will ban the ip of the person rather than just the account. We do not need to see the IP, this can be handled on server side.

Not everyone has a static IP. Many trolls could change their IP and come right back.

Much more difficult to do this than banning by a name that is easily created within seconds. Point is to deter the behavior, of course there will always be loop holes.

[MagicManICT]

Not everyone has a static IP. Many trolls could change their IP and come right back.

Only a small percentage of people are actually behind a static IP.

Still not hard to IP block people behind a NAT service. The problem is you might catch others that aren't causing problems/legitimate players. 3rd party proxies, off hand, could just be flat blocked.

[Granger]

3rd party proxies, off hand, could just be flat blocked.

Good luck blocking TOR.

[Aceb]

Ignoring option only for realm chat is imho a very nice approach and very elegant solution.

[MagicManICT]

3rd party proxies, off hand, could just be flat blocked.

Good luck blocking TOR.

Just block all known exit nodes... solved.

[Granger]

I think blocking 127/1 and 128/1 would give more reliable results (at least for ipv4)...
IP based blocks don't work, unless you overdo them.