Guild Wars 2

My suggestion is to put in the kitten wordfilter as a secondary filter into the game itself, which cannot be disabled. In short, it would replace any words which are on the filter list (separate from the profanity/banned word list), and which cannot be disabled by options. Also, make it so they can see what they type (so it doesn’t give the game away) and not see what they type being censored.

As to what goes onto this list? The urls the gold seller bots are spamming (not the http part, they don’t seem to spam that). So, if a bot was to repeatedly spam out “buygoldderp.com” or whatever, it would be changed into “kitten” for everyone else seeing the message.

While we still have to keep reporting and blocking as usual, this would ensure the bots can’t even advertise their sites properly. Any new urls they spam get put onto the kittenlist eventually which hinders them even more.

While I wouldn’t mind this, it is way too easy to get around. Using simple brackets or parentheses, symbols that represent letters, etc. would easily defeat it unless the system was far more advanced to pick up on them.

For instance I’ll use your example: buygoldderp.com would be easy to change to buygoldderp.c0m or buygoldderp [ . ] c0m, among other things. While they aren’t exactly the website, it gets the point across fairly well.

Another downside would be for innocent players just exchanging links to things like Teamspeak/Ventrilo/Mumble or guild websites. Since these would have www., .com, .net, etc., it could prove to be an issue there as well.

I really don’t like that idea. I even don’t use the optional word filter cause I don’t get what difference it should make. Forcing an additional world filter down my throat just cause their might be a problem with gold spammer – which btw I don’t think there is, since I don’t see any gold spams all day – just doesn’t feel right.