Honestly the past couple of weeks (obv past couple of weeks from when the server went down) there hasn't been all that much spam and while I guess it could be occurring during the 35 minutes per day I am not logged in I think it's died down a lot. And yeah I think those people are pieces of shit too. The Danth stories were funny but one or two postings of each would have been sufficient, 30 in a row pushing all the other spam out of ooc is too much and quite annoying.
That said my worry is just that any new person logging in for the first time is likely to have forgotten a huge chunk of EQs quirky little annoyances. Being able to just /ooc OMG HOW DO I SWIM UP?!?! may be the difference between a bunch of these people continuing to play or just throwing their hands up in frustration. And yeah I know people too stupid to figure out every aspect of the newbie experience will just be breathing air that better players could be breathing and all that... But really it takes good players and noobs and assholes and everything else under the sun to make for a real classic experience... And I think that encouraging people to stay and give it a chance will be more beneficial in the long run and easily balance out the annoyance of having to put anoob_001 on ignore for spaming about halfling cock. *shrug*
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