Trade chat in high pop servers are scrolling with boost sales, the same advertisements from the same groups over and over again, endlessly.
I mean i cant even push through a decent Chuck Norris joke without it being pushed away by spam.
So maybe we should put them all in another location, and have all sale spam centralized there so that its contained.
Right now it just feels like nobody is wearing th Helm of Domination, if that makes any sense.
Thanks.
oh yeah blizz will definitely solve that problem for sure
…in 11.0 XD
Well, it’s called trade chat for some reason right… the people who should be moved to other place are supposed to be who don’t use it for… trade.
Yes, spam is annoying, but i think there are other solutions, like create a separated chat just for casual talk or increase the time to post again after 2 posts.
They’ll move to whatever channel is busiest, regardless of what it’s called. If everyone chatted in Local Defence, that’s where the spam would be.
It’s time for Blizzard to enforce their own rules. That would cut down on ads in trade chat and eliminate them entirely in the group finder.
Boosting is fine if it isn’t for real money.
Boosting ads are not fine when they’re clogging up LFG, but legitimate boosters/boosting communities don’t advertise in there. It’s all the questionable websites that do.
There are also plenty of ads in trade chat linking to websites that sell all sorts of real money wow services.
The fact that an ad states “gold only” doesn’t mean they won’t accept cash or give you a cash price after they get you in discord. Somebody in the bgs forum started a thread not long ago where they contacted every PvP carry seller currently on their server. All said “gold only” in the ads. 100% brought up a cash price without being prompted in any way.
They would need to run sting operations on a regular basis. I see no reason 4 guys shouldn’t be able to sell a run for gold. But right now big outside businesses have taken control, apparently with Blizzard’s blessing.
And those are also against terms of service.
You just need spam filters
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/bad-boy
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/badboy_ccleaner
That’s what I suggest to most people though I personally use
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/easyfilter
but it’s more complicated, if you don’t know Lua pattern matching and aren’t the learning type you won’t want it
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/global-ignore-list
is another option that I think falls between BadBoy and EasyFilter with more power to filter than BadBoy but with an easier setup than EasyFilter
But they are doing nothing about them.
It should not be the responsibility of the players to take steps to ignore what is going on around them so it can continue to taint the game without restrictions of any kind.
Why do you say that?
Load up your reporting machine gun and start shooting away then 
100%. Addons are fine as stopgaps but Blizzard needs to obviate them sooner than later.
Because the same ad remains up 24/7, even if you report it and temporarily remove it from your view during the current session.
Reporting does nothing, since they are not enforcing their own rules. It appears they do not care that RMT sites are being linked to in both trade chat and the group finder.
Introducing boost bots in 11.0
Need your M+15 for the week? $50 in the blizzard store and we’ll provide 4 optimized M+ bots to make the process painless and easy. Just AFK at the start of the dungeon and collect loo
Just $5 additional dollars to armor stack and $5 to select which dungeon to run.
Trade chat, think about this TRADE CHAT…
they honestly need to start banning people that use trade chat for regular talk…
Why haven’t you put them on ignore yet? This is a you problem.
One day Blizz will finally try to fix the problem and give everyone a big Ole monkey paw…
They will police trade chat and block all chat that isn’t directly trade related…essentially killing the last auto-joined world chat channel. Then everyone will have something new to complain about
oooo bobby’s gonna love this. he can now get 4th yacht!
They can’t enforce the rules if you don’t report and just because you don’t see them doing anything doesn’t mean nothing is being done
They could have, like, a social chat channel. Novel concept. They probably should have all along.