A ponder on the bot solution - Page 3

.o0O0O0o. · 10-06-2007, 08:20 PM

IP blockage is a start. Then, maybe they could lower the spam by invoking like a 10 sec delay between shouts.

MagesRequiem · 10-06-2007, 09:59 PM

I dislike the filters. You can say "Hell" or "Damn" but you can't say "Clam" or "Butt". I mean how stupid is that? Anyways, the filter idea would never work. Because now instead of seeing "www.lolgold.com" you'd be seeing "*****.lolgold.*****". Thats a hell of a lot more annoying than what they're shouting.

**Hessah** · 10-06-2007, 11:44 PM

wont it be more effective to block their domain name?? so u get www.*****.com

they can try alter their domain name.. but then that doesnt get us to their site! haha i doubt they'll move domain name to get around our filter...

**Yosei** · 10-07-2007, 03:55 AM

Originally Posted by Hessah

wont it be more effective to block their domain name?? so u get www.*****.com

they can try alter their domain name.. but then that doesnt get us to their site! haha i doubt they'll move domain name to get around our filter...

Thats what I meant. Find the site names and filter them, it may not be ALL of them, but finding some of them would help reduce it. But yeah, there are ways around it. They could type www. l o l g o l d .com, or w w w . l o l g o l d . c o m.
I doubt they would chain their domain names for the filters.

Fangor · 10-07-2007, 04:26 PM

I think that the solution might be to simply delete characters (not block IPs, since we all know how much of a solution that can be). To prevent the making of new characters as shouting bots, restrict shouting to say, level 5 and above.

This way, a player would actually have to do a little work before it could become a shouter and deleting one of the shouting bots would actually have some effect, for a while at least.

Until the leveling bot got the shouting bot to level 5 and then it could shout.

**Yosei** · 10-07-2007, 05:33 PM

There are bots that are levels 30+ ^^;;

MagesRequiem · 10-08-2007, 12:02 AM

I was told by a friend while playing today that the patch thats coming out will not allow people below level 6 to shout. This means that the spammers will no longer be able to shout without leveling up first. And seeing as how I doubt they can level up, we won't have anything to worry about. In the shouts at least. But they still post that in normal which is annoying.

**Hessah** · 10-08-2007, 01:26 AM

hmm it isnt that hard to get to lvl 6... these site probably employs people to do that golf farming thing... tell them to spend 10 mins to lvl it up to lvl 6 isnt that hard..

but i guess targetting the problem is better than not doing anything at all!

make it hard for them!

Myztic · 10-08-2007, 01:59 AM

Prolly the easiest way would be to have a /ignore (botofchoice) that way its player controlled and if you wanted to see it would be up to the player

**Yosei** · 10-08-2007, 06:58 AM

Yeah.. theres a simple solution.. BLOCK THEM lol.

But like I said in the post before you requiem.. they have programs that auto play.. and there ARE bots that are lvl 30ish. Wouldn't stop them unfortunately.