I miss sitting in silvermoon just bantering with people in Trade chat.
(Sometimes trolling, sometimes just good ol’ fashioned how’s the weather?)
Community aspect of this game is definitely a shell… unless you’re talking “Booster Community” then it’s almost as prolific as the “Bot community”
Didn’t you say the last time you try harder now? Well, that would be a good topic to have on the council.
This is honestly the truth. If you somehow brought the trade chat from yesterday into todays world nearly everyone conversing on it would get mass reported by people. Just a very different time lol.
Transfer to alliance proudmoore. I’m not sure we have anything but conversation in the trade chat.
Not sure that’s an improvement. Proudmoore’s trade chat seems to be 24/7 politics, I think I’d rather have the LFG spam.
At least its 24/7 chatty 
You guys have got to stop suggesting this it isn’t going to work. Banning does nothing to people that aren’t on the account they care about
Hey im not looking for a social hang out chat, just any talk at all would be nice. Shouldnt need to join a RP guild for some sort of chat in a MMORPG.
Might be your server honestly.
The one I’m on trade chat is lit with all kinds of things.
I agree that the spam is annoying
but trade chat, by definition, is for trade - and boosts are trade. It is not for conversations or questions or political chat or meatball trolling.
use the addon Karumine posted above to filter the trade messages you don’t want to see.
I forgot what server I connected to but I had to get the ignore addon as the trade chat was so full of gold run sellers. Within 15 minutes I had over 2,000 blocked accounts and finally I had trade chat under control and felt like it did in vanilla.
Peace at last!
Trade chat isn’t dead, silly. Look at all those boost sellers trying to make friends with you.
And then this happens when you do.
You have been silenced from using this channel pending moderator review.
First get rid of players ability to report people for the hell of it.
Second, ban players that are caught making frivolous reports on the forum and game.
Third, consider increasing penalties each time it happens, so the punishment fit the crime.
Fourth, punish actual rule-breakers with account closure and police third party websites.
Number 4 is big because if you can continue to act this way outside of the game, it’s very easy to continue badgering people to the point where good people quit. It happened to a friend of mine, and I gotta say; this is one of the things Final Fantasy XIV does right.
I don’t watch the dude, but Asmondgold was being harassed by some self-proclaimed legend named Queen, who was trying to essentially get people on her server to harass him off that server.
This individual did so for no other reason than she felt she owned the server. I say that because she was also threatening anyone who welcomed Asmondgold, or who had fun with him with harassment and “blacklisting” if they dared to engage with him.
No really, that’s how mental this chick was. If you talked to him you would be harassed by her followers. I’d like to say this was isolated to FFXIV, but it’s not. The same thing happens on Tumblr with WoW.
Long story short, Square investigated Queen; found she was complicit in organizing online harassment on social media against Asmond and she was punished for it pretty heavily. I know this because it was on the forums and social media where she was howling about it like a rabid she-wolf.
That’s the kind of thing Microsoft needs to bring into WoW if we’re serious about cleaning the community up and reclaiming stuff like Trade-Chat. We can do the self-moderation thing, but we need the company to punish bad actors and eggs when they pop up.