I was so surprised to see ad bots the day after the reset. I do like the idea of gathering spambot account names and sending them to support. If this kicks off someone let me know.
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I remember back in 2008 around the time i signed up on this forum i thought it was bad that after i joined a game id get one or two whispers from spam bots and when i made my come back in January i was flabbergasted on how bad it was. The first game i made on my comeback was "Rush mee" and instantly 7 people joined and i was like oh man a lot of people want to rush me norm. and then it came, i honestly thought i was getting hacked. its bad.
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How does a screen shot of me joining a game and saying OMG I LOVE D2ITEMS.COM ITS THE BEST BLAH BLAH BLAH CHEAP GEAR BLAH BLAH and leaving prove I'm running a bot?
Fixing duping and botting would eliminate spam bots and most item stores inventories. If blizzard cared, or was actually able to do anything about it, they'd solve the problem from the source.
Does these damn bots have anything to do with the roll backs that have been occuring by any chance. I have lost some gear xfering with a buddy. Blizzard rolled me back before the trade but without my gear. Kinda frustrating. I do know that the gear was legit and not duped becuase it was rune words i made myself by finding the runes. I know i cant email blizzard becuase i am sure they will say prove you had that gear and really how the heck are you suppose to get it back anyway. Anyway back to my original question do these bots have to do with the roll backs?
Battle.net NEEDS to have a paid subscription for just this reason, make it credit-card only, ban players found buying items by name on credit-card. Take away the market and the spammers stop.
You'll never stop spamming directly while there is still money to be made from morons that RMT. Stop the morons and you stop the spammers.
Yes.
Punish the player base to fix a problem.
EA does that a lot too. Thats the true moronic thing to do.
A good sollution. Play classic where there are no spam bots
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Um... You mean spambots? I'm pissed that they couldn't take better precautions to ward off bots. Every week I'm going to compose a formal list of every bot account I've seen and sent it to support@blizzard.com. This is ridiculous.
Blizzard wouldn't just believe it if someone sends them a list of names. They would have to verify they are actually bots. I doubt blizzard would take the time to do that. Especially since Diablo 2 doesn't bring in as much money as is used to.
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This sounds like an excellent idea. Makes me wonder how come I never thought of that.
Anyway about the spammers... I hate them, but I don't care about sites selling stuff for money. It just can't offend me in any way. Spamming can :mad:
Yeah, people just have to spread the word in every game so people start to use the level limitation.
In wow we have this addon called spammenot that automaticly prevents messages from lvl 1 characters (or you can determine it higher). This pretty much takes away all spam, since most of the spammers are bots that automaticly run to town and start spamming at lvl 1.
In wow we have this addon called spammenot that automaticly prevents messages from lvl 1 characters (or you can determine it higher). This pretty much takes away all spam, since most of the spammers are bots that automaticly run to town and start spamming at lvl 1.
That reminds me of an old text-based game I used to play called Shimlar. When you first started a character, you weren't able to speak to anyone until you got to lvl 10 I think. You might have been able to talk to others that were under lvl 10, I can't remember.
I really hope they will implement something like this, or something like what akse said into the next D2 patch, as well as in D3.
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That reminds me of an old text-based game I used to play called Shimlar. When you first started a character, you weren't able to speak to anyone until you got to lvl 10 I think. You might have been able to talk to others that were under lvl 10, I can't remember.
I really hope they will implement something like this, or something like what akse said into the next D2 patch, as well as in D3.
In the WoW trial you can't message at all. You may be able to whisper. I don't remember. I thought it was a pretty good preventative measure although I had trouble communicating lol.
1. When someone that isn't your friend whispers you, all you will see is a flashing icon with the name of the person trying to contact you. If you click the icon you will accept all messages, or you can right click and choose other options. Mouse over it to see a preview of the message. That way you won't be interrupted in your gaming.
2.
- A simple vote system that requires all of the players in the game to vote. This will tag the reported player as a possible spammer.
- After the third tag (in a different game with different players), the player will get the real mark.
- A marked player must go through a CAPTCHA before being able to chat to people. It must be done in every game.
- A marked player will lose his mark after 3 days.
- A mark also applies 1 minimum tag for everyone else on that IP, so two more tag is enough for someone else on that IP to get a mark. When the second mark on the IP is given, all accounts on that IP is given 2 minimum tags. That results in a zero tolerance. One tag and you are marked instantly. When an account loses its mark, all minimum tags created by it will disappear.
- 1 tag disappears every 5 hours, excluding minimum tags.
- Creating an account requires a correctly answered CAPTCHA.
- If an account is detected to be marked for over 75% of its total activity (minimum 7 days), it will be locked and require e-mail authentication (or security question answer) + CAPTCHA.
I think this is pretty fair. As long as everyone votes, a bot will be gone after like 10 minutes, and be gone for 3 days (assuming that they can't answer CAPTCHA's). New accounts would have to be handmade so that isn't really effective either. Accounts that are known to be marked a lot are likely spammers and will be locked, thus reducing the lifetime of a bot account.
All required of the players is that they vote, and a hotkey could be made for that.
I like your points but sadly they will almost surely never be put into effect for this game.
I'm still under the impression that Blizzard does in fact own some of the gold selling companies, making huge profit from them - thus not giving a damn.
That's ridiculous. There are 10 million WoW subscribers paying $15/month for a stable game with a stable economy. Blizzard would be fucking themselves over by fucking with the economy.
I do however think that some Blizzard employees may know how to exploit these kinds of things and help run these gold or item selling services.
Those things don't work, I got this funny little program where you can insert download links like megaupload, rapidshare etc.
Most of these have captcha's. The program however can guess what has to be inserted correctly 9/10 times.
Surely a bot program could insert that.
This. Letter recognition softwares also exist.
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You MUST HELP! HELP DEFEAT THE BOTS!
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How does a screen shot of me joining a game and saying OMG I LOVE D2ITEMS.COM ITS THE BEST BLAH BLAH BLAH CHEAP GEAR BLAH BLAH and leaving prove I'm running a bot?
Fixing duping and botting would eliminate spam bots and most item stores inventories. If blizzard cared, or was actually able to do anything about it, they'd solve the problem from the source.
Yes.
Punish the player base to fix a problem.
EA does that a lot too. Thats the true moronic thing to do.
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Genius. I'd say this would cut down 90% of the spam.
Blizzard wouldn't just believe it if someone sends them a list of names. They would have to verify they are actually bots. I doubt blizzard would take the time to do that. Especially since Diablo 2 doesn't bring in as much money as is used to.
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Yeah, people just have to spread the word in every game so people start to use the level limitation.
In wow we have this addon called spammenot that automaticly prevents messages from lvl 1 characters (or you can determine it higher). This pretty much takes away all spam, since most of the spammers are bots that automaticly run to town and start spamming at lvl 1.
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That reminds me of an old text-based game I used to play called Shimlar. When you first started a character, you weren't able to speak to anyone until you got to lvl 10 I think. You might have been able to talk to others that were under lvl 10, I can't remember.
I really hope they will implement something like this, or something like what akse said into the next D2 patch, as well as in D3.
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In the WoW trial you can't message at all. You may be able to whisper. I don't remember. I thought it was a pretty good preventative measure although I had trouble communicating lol.
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I like your points but sadly they will almost surely never be put into effect for this game.
That's ridiculous. There are 10 million WoW subscribers paying $15/month for a stable game with a stable economy. Blizzard would be fucking themselves over by fucking with the economy.
I do however think that some Blizzard employees may know how to exploit these kinds of things and help run these gold or item selling services.
This. Letter recognition softwares also exist.