On Azuresong Ive been getting the spam “it has been blocked” message every 2-3 minutes on average. I also find it annoying.
I noticed more invites to my character as my level rises. Probably because of mounts
The Chinese menace continues to plague the land of the free
No when my car starts making noises I take it to a mechanic who fixes the issue, he doesnt just add more sound dampening to the car so i no longer hear the cylinders smashing through the top of the engine block
Ignoring something makes the thing vanish from my sight, blocking should carry the same effect.
right click reporting means nothing as the spammers delete the character then turn around and create a new one with 1 letter difference. I still get the dodgy website thrown directly into my chatbox. Something that simply should never be possible and the obvious solution is to make block chat channel invites block ALL of it
not sure why people are telling the OP to quit crying about a chat line its not about having one or two lines of spam its about letting the spam post as an ad something we dont want to see id rather see chat filled with anal jokes than gold selling spam
Wow I cant believe these people in here who are being contrarian saying the gold seller spam should stay in the chat box…like really
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There are two options in-game, when combined, totally eliminate gold sellers’ effect. He’s complaining that enabling the first option doesn’t also enable the second one. If he actually went and enabled the second option, he wouldn’t have this problem.
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yes, really.
people want the ability to report it, so the accounts can be terminated.
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Um, how about 20,000 GMs? One GM can’t watch the chat for 4 million players.
And those 20,000 GMs have to be hired, trained, housed, set up with a computer, etc. That is an awful big expense for something this minor. Which is probably why Blizzard hasn’t done it.
That’s exactly what you’re asking for by hiding the invites and not reporting them.
Also cylinders are just the shape of the combustion chamber. The pistons are what you’d be worried about going through the engine block. Not the cylinders.
Misdiagnosis and incorrect treatment of the root cause problem seems to be your MO.
Which allows them to continue doing what their doing with no repercussions.
No. What should happen is a level 20 restriction on creating or inviting to chat channels. It’s a feature that has barely any use for low levels. The only custom channels used really is world and a couple others.
Blizz could even make world a public channel and remove the feature entirely. Its worthless at low levels. Well. Except to gold sellers. There’s better ways to communicate.
Funny. I haven’t seen the same name or close to the same name ever. I get a few invites a week. Guess reporting for cheating is working.
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thatt is wrong though. There is no capacity to remove the spam from the chat box. Yes I can tick “Block Chat Channel Invites” by going into interface options then Social. However that does NOT remove the spam from showing up into the CHAT box. There is absolutely ZERO settings options functions or features to block the CHAT BOX notification of these invites
Lucky you, I have been online for 40 minutes today and have had 2 so far, I had 5 invites last night.
so for 6-12 months i have to deal with seeing “wwzzzzhackyourgolddotscam432784352usdollar” flooding my chat box because right click reporting hasnt done anything to stop it. They still spam me
The invite spam really annoyed me until I found that option. I’ve literally never thought about it since thenuntil just now.
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It would actually be nice if the block option was enabled by default.
Right click on your chat window -> settings -> Other -> uncheck “Channel”.
sure there is… right click, report spam.
do the right thing, and the text disappears.
if it’s flooding your chat box, then you’re not reporting it… so don’t pretend you’ve been reporting. 
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How about you do not block them, and you can act as a non paid blizzard servant all you want. Those of us who are blocking are not paying $15 a month to be unpaid blizzard employees.
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i get spam from the same accounts every time i log in for the past few weeks. sure i report them but once i relog or go to a new char, i get spammed again from the same bots. reporting doesn’t seem to do much.
Report for cheating: Selling gold. It’s listed under cheating in the CoC.
It’s not luck. It’s using the tools the system provides properly. Report for cheating and then /ignore the toon.
Where did you come up with 20 thousand new employees?? We don’t have 20k servers. One GM’s per server would be fine. Maybe not even that.
But honestly I’m really tired of people going on about how poor Blizzard is that they’re forced to use their customers like employees. If they could have in game GM’s when they had a ton more servers and millions more players, then there’s no excuse for not having them now.
In TBC and Wrath GM’s would pop up in chat and tell people to knock it off. I’d get my tickets answered within 30 minutes. There isn’t any excuse.
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So basically you’re fine with gold spammers selling gold to other people and want to enable their sales by making sure they don’t get reported by anyone.
That just makes so much sense.
You are blocked from that character for the remainder of the play session. I report them every time. I have never noticed the same character spamming me multiple days. I think they clean them out daily.
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They don’t need to waste money like that, so there is no reason to. Having more GMs isn’t cost efficient because more GM does not equal more paying customers.