Spam in /ooc and /auction

[Malrubius]

Yeah, let's keep this out of R&F, thanks. There are some who have mis-read my OP; and also didn't actually comprehend that the in-game spam samples shortly thereafter (see page 1) were not even in OOC.

So please stop trying to make this about global OOC - it is too much of a hot button issue to get us anywhere. There's another thread about global OOC that you can post in. This thread is about spam in the OOC and Auction channels, and ways to solve the problem in both.

Thanks to the devs, some great progress has been made and the original spam issues seen on Page 1 of this thread are much less of an issue.


My vote for the next step, *if* it's easy to implement, would be some character naming restrictions so that we can more easily /ignore the spammers. I don't think we need to allow character names with 3 of the same letters in a row, or character names over a certain length.