Guild Wars 2

So I was asking for help while attacking a champion. It was with one other person so I advertised twice the location’s waypoint and then asked for help. We duo’ed the champion but it took forever, like 10 minutes I think? So I port to another location, the gallows, and see someone asked if there were any events. I linked the waypoint to say by mistake and when I went to say it on map chat I got an excessive spam message?

I’m sorry, but this is just frustrating as hell. I couldn’t complete the event solo because they thought it would be a good idea to give a mob a single attack that does knock back and as melee I have to sacrifice my sword/shield and try to do it with a staff which lacks the survivability that the shield offers.

How is what I was doing spamming? When I see constant guildwars2walmart or whatever spam in Lions Arch and Divinity’s Reach. Why do I feel that all the measures in this game only hurt the people being legit? Can’t do events because I guess linking is spamming and I can’t farm anything because the game thinks I’m botting and nukes the rewards for it.

Kinda feel like its a tinfoil hat club in here.

Saying exactly the same thing 3 times in a row triggers the spam filter.

If you look at the screenshot nothing was said three times in a row.

Another SS for proof.

Raehvyn.4530:

I advertised twice the location’s waypoint

That’s 2.

I linked the waypoint to say by mistake

And that’s 3.

Different way points, spread out between a period of time. 2 Gallow fields waypoints probably about 5-10 minutes prior to the Triforge WP, and another 10 with the Gallowfield WP that the first SS has.

SS for proof, the kitten not working as intended.

If attaching an SS for proof can it show more than a few lines at once?

You can drag the corner of the chat window so that we can see what happened in context rather than just a tiny snippet.

Unless you’re just not allowed to link three times regardless of what channel, what was said in between, how long since the postings, but that makes no sense because you see clans using macros for recruiting.

So that makes absolutely no sense.

Fair enough. Larger chat window.

OK. So we can see the last 2 things in /local were both the same waypoint link, what was the last thing you said in /l before those 2?

Nothing before that in local chat. If I said anything it was over 40 minutes ago, lost in NPC spam. I didn’t link that WP a third time in local, I changed it to map and got spammed out for it. If I thought it was my fault at all I’d have not posted it, thats why I am confused. Because nothing was repeated three times one after another and as said, clans spam their recruitment message in between actual conversation so why would it matter if I -did- link a WP 3 times in local but with a lot of time between each message?

Oh, hold on, we see the 2 times when it was successful and then the 3rd time onwards was blocked.

Note how there are numerous blocked messages with no /l text showing what you trying to say, only the 3rd one was blocked (and whatever you tried to say after that)

So you did try to say it 3+ times in /local, which is why it got caught for spam.

I guess so, I shift clicked the WP and edited it out to be map (don’t see it because it got blocked). So I could have hit it too early. Thanks for the walk through.

I do still find it to be a bit extreme. There are no time stamps so you only really have my word on it, but the time between the first link and then the one above the blocked messages was considerable. I think that is a little extreme.

I know the two blocked messages are for map chat because I didn’t hit control, I used shift. Ah well. I’ll be more careful.