Guild Wars 2

So, I won’t post names, as I believe it’s against forum policy, but there’s been someone spamming emotes and generally been a troll in the mists for the last week. I know he’s been reported repeatedly, judging by the discussion in map chat, but it looks like no action has been taken.

I gotta say…I’m losing a lot of the faith I had in this game’s community as well as the devs responsible for moderating it. =/

edit And before someone says it, yes, I know you can hide emotes from your chat, but that’s besides the point.

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Well, I’m not trying to report this (particularly since it’s already been reported). Instead, I’m trying to bring attention to this situation, which exemplifies a larger problem.

The guy who checks all those reports has the funniest job you can imagine probably. Reporting someone for spamming emotes and writing about it on forum xD I have blocked dozens of people already, why is it so hard for you? xD

Because as Dahkeus said it’s part of a larger problem. Yes you can block them, but that’s only a band-aid it doesn’t heal the wound.

If poor, inappropriate, or trolling behavior isn’t handled in a timely matter (and this goes for any situation not just games) then what starts as a small and easily avoidable situation like emote spam can very easily snowball into a bigger one.

Small edit: If they have so few people handling reports that they can’t even get around to dealing with someone that has been reported multiple times then that’s an issue in and of itself that needs to be looked at.

It’s a bad thing with the general community feels like reporting someone isn’t a viable option for dealing with negative or inappropriate behavior.

adam.8692:

The guy who checks all those reports has the funniest job you can imagine probably. Reporting someone for spamming emotes and writing about it on forum xD I have blocked dozens of people already, why is it so hard for you? xD

I won’t “name and shame”, but his name is along the lines of “Çïïiïïiïïiïïiïïiïiï”.

He hides to spam the emotes, you can’t right-click names in emotes, can’t spell the name unless you spend a few minutes to google up the characters and pick apart the name to spell it correctly, so most can’t ignore him unless they find him (at which point he just goes into stealth to break targeting and relocates).

So far it looks like he has three accounts to get around blocks, so even if you block one you’ll wind up getting spammed again later and have to go through the process of hunting for him or trying to spell his name to block him again.

Heaven forbid if gold sellers catch on to this strategy.

Pandaman.4758:

adam.8692:

The guy who checks all those reports has the funniest job you can imagine probably. Reporting someone for spamming emotes and writing about it on forum xD I have blocked dozens of people already, why is it so hard for you? xD

I won’t “name and shame”, but his name is along the lines of “Çïïiïïiïïiïïiïïiïiï”.

He hides to spam the emotes, you can’t right-click names in emotes, can’t spell the name unless you spend a few minutes to google up the characters and pick apart the name to spell it correctly, so most can’t ignore him unless they find him (at which point he just goes into stealth to break targeting and relocates).

So far it looks like he has three accounts to get around blocks, so even if you block one you’ll wind up getting spammed again later and have to go through the process of hunting for him or trying to spell his name to block him again.

Heaven forbid if gold sellers catch on to this strategy.

Considering that there is no emote for selling gold… I don’t think that will be a problem.

MakeitNeil.4561:

Pandaman.4758:

adam.8692:

The guy who checks all those reports has the funniest job you can imagine probably. Reporting someone for spamming emotes and writing about it on forum xD I have blocked dozens of people already, why is it so hard for you? xD

I won’t “name and shame”, but his name is along the lines of “Çïïiïïiïïiïïiïïiïiï”.

He hides to spam the emotes, you can’t right-click names in emotes, can’t spell the name unless you spend a few minutes to google up the characters and pick apart the name to spell it correctly, so most can’t ignore him unless they find him (at which point he just goes into stealth to break targeting and relocates).

So far it looks like he has three accounts to get around blocks, so even if you block one you’ll wind up getting spammed again later and have to go through the process of hunting for him or trying to spell his name to block him again.

Heaven forbid if gold sellers catch on to this strategy.

Considering that there is no emote for selling gold… I don’t think that will be a problem.

U can do /me then type whatever you want which would make it an emote

Why can’t you block people based off emotes? I think thats a valid question. I can’t select someone emoting and block them. Why not? Especially when they do it so much that you can’t even read chat.

MakeitNeil.4561:

Considering that there is no emote for selling gold… I don’t think that will be a problem.

Already been pointed out above, but yeah, you can do a custom emote with /me <text>, which has the same range as regular emotes (enough to cover the entire PvP lobby from almost any point on the map).

You realize that there’s a chat option for not seing these emotes in your chat? :<

feroxeu.7416:

MakeitNeil.4561:

Pandaman.4758:

adam.8692:

The guy who checks all those reports has the funniest job you can imagine probably. Reporting someone for spamming emotes and writing about it on forum xD I have blocked dozens of people already, why is it so hard for you? xD

I won’t “name and shame”, but his name is along the lines of “Çïïiïïiïïiïïiïïiïiï”.

He hides to spam the emotes, you can’t right-click names in emotes, can’t spell the name unless you spend a few minutes to google up the characters and pick apart the name to spell it correctly, so most can’t ignore him unless they find him (at which point he just goes into stealth to break targeting and relocates).

So far it looks like he has three accounts to get around blocks, so even if you block one you’ll wind up getting spammed again later and have to go through the process of hunting for him or trying to spell his name to block him again.

Heaven forbid if gold sellers catch on to this strategy.

Considering that there is no emote for selling gold… I don’t think that will be a problem.

U can do /me then type whatever you want which would make it an emote

you can’t spam /me though… so there is somewhat of a fix there

Keksmuffin.1450:

You realize that there’s a chat option for not seing these emotes in your chat? :<

Somehow I knew that even after specifically addressing this in the original post of this thread, someone would say this…

MakeitNeil.4561:

feroxeu.7416:

U can do /me then type whatever you want which would make it an emote

you can’t spam /me though… so there is somewhat of a fix there

Which isn’t quite the issue I was raising: that using indecipherable names to prevent people from blocking your emotes is a problem. A gold seller can still advertise with an indecipherable name and custom emote every few minutes (to get around the anti-spam system), they just won’t be flooding the chat.

Have enough bots tag-teaming and it will be a different story though.