Guild Wars 2

Can we please get that automatic spam squelching to extend to emotes as well? I’m not a fan of the system, particularly after I got squelched for saying “thanks” too many times during the hologram fights in the last LS, but I’m even less of a fan of people going…

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… within a second every time they fire off their “twearking” macro, or whatever it is kids affectionately call spazzing out these days. I do put these people on ignore, but since you can’t just right click a name in an emote I have to resort to “/ignore <player>”, which is harder to do when half the characters in their names use umlauts.

Yes, I would like to see this implemented as well. It’s just annoying when people spam the chat with emotes..

Click the down arrow next to the word Main in the chat window, deselect emotes. Inelegant solution, but I absolute abhor the stupid emote spam so I simply disable the ability for them to display in my chat screen.

Yes! it’s just as bad as the normal spam.

There is sometimes a REASON for spamming emotes. It’s not just idiot trolls.

I am a GW2 “photographer”, and use the few emotes we have so that I can catch my toons in poses other than just “standing around in front of some scenery”. This often means spamming emotes again and again to get the right picture, just like a real-life photographer goes through many rolls of film to get a single shot.

I am conscious of this issue, and hesitate to tell people to simply uncheck their emotes chat if they don’t like it. They may like to see the occasional emote. I do my best to use instances whenever possible, so that nobody hears me. But with the new Megaserver system revving up, I am more worried than ever that my emoting will disturb the peace, since maps will (supposedly) be optimized for population at all times of the day.

I don’t know what the range is on emotes. Full MAP range would be ridiculous. Emotes should only be within SAY (local) range at most.

The designers added a “sensitivity slider” to let us tune out player Instruments if they were getting on our nerves. The same thing would be appreciated for emotes. It would give others some peace, and it would give me more places to take my pictures without worrying that I could be disturbing people.

There’s a difference between repeating emotes because you miss the timing, and mass repetition for no other reason than to clutter the screen.

The game should simply not report emotes in the chat box more than, say, once per 2 secs per player.

Hamfast.8719:

There is sometimes a REASON for spamming emotes. It’s not just idiot trolls.

Well, it would be nice if the system was adapted to allow them to continue with the animation but just suppress the emote from being echoed in the chatbox then. We’re spared idiotic emote spam, people who just want the animation don’t have to suffer, people who want to spam the chatbox for the sake of spamming can enjoy spamming themselves with squelch notifications. Everyone wins!

Please just suppress it from the chat, but have the animation and sound play out.

Weylin.6478:

Please just suppress it from the chat, but have the animation and sound play out.

You can turn emotes off in any chat tab. The problem is for those who want to see legitimate emotes, but not spam.

Olvendred.3027:

You can turn emotes off in any chat tab. The problem is for those who want to see legitimate emotes, but not spam.

^This.
Having emotes is actually helpful in wvw since so many ppl don’t know that they are actually alerting us to their enemy presence. doh!
Our guild has been trained to not use them out on the field
I hate the spamming also but, as a previous poster stated, it’s useful to him & emotes are fun for a lot of people too.