Report it if you find the information spam. It certainly doesn’t bolster your argument to center it around the channel being full of spam so therefore your spam should be allowed.
The hilarious part about this is that five independent reports are actually quite a bit. But by the numbers it seems small…or I should say manageable. The main reason I wasn’t reporting these add-ons was because I don’t use the general chat often enough to pay attention and I wouldn’t have thought my report would effect any change. But given the attitude on these forums in regards to the players using them and the fact that apparently five is enough, I’ll be reporting them all day every day 
nice PSA.
Except, it isn’t spam. If one person is using the addon, and they said a rare is up, and then as soon as the rare dies, it gets said in the general, it isn’t spam. The most messages using rareshare I have seen of the one rare in general is a total of 3 messages saying “[Rare Name] has been killed,” by 3 different people.
But yet, for example, if you’re on the Thrall Server, and have General Open, you got people talking a lot of nonsense, even inside a raid instance.
But people reporting others for using addons that let others know of a rare really goes to show that they care more about the chat than playing the game.
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You know what I think it is.
It’s probably that like one or two people got silenced by accident because someone decided to mass report or something like that and they thought it was because of the addon spam.
So then someone reports it on the forum and then the hysteria starts while literally 99% of the playerbase doesn’t care or hasn’t be silenced for it.
It’s funny reading the people actually trying to defend that announcing rares is spam though. It’s like the funniest contrarianism ever lol
What people are explaining to the radically obtuse is that chat, any chat, that people in a chat session find annoying can be reported as “spam.” If enough reports of a behavior are considered “spam” by the community then Blizzard is not going to overrule those complaints.
10 people chatting. 7 people posting things the other 3 find annoying. A socially adjusted person would simply move their chat to another channel whereas a socially maladjusted person will argue the three people should just let them stay and annoy the group–because they don’t understand the “group” are all 10 people and not just the 7 they are hanging out with. There is a space for the 7 people to hang out in, where the other 3 don’t get any say in the matter, and that’s the party chat.
Why these socially maladjusted people refuse to use the party chat instead of arguing they should be allowed to run roughshod over any other player’s experience, whether it be one player or 100, is fodder for someone’s dissertation.
The 7:3 ratio is simply a heuristic device. Use any numbers that make sense to you and then evaluate the conclusions it points you toward. The numbers you use will also help you place yourself on the continuum within which the two categories I described are located.
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Ok, now I get it. What your saying is just chatting in general alone, people can false flag anything they don’t like as spam, just as people here in GD can mass flag any thread that they don’t like on the forums.
Got it. People like to abuse anything and get away without any consequences.
There is a massive difference between one person that announces a rare and it’s Coords and 20 ppl that do it, the problem is def not that one person with the add on… IT IS ANNOYING AF when you’re in either zone and 14 ppl say Rustfeather - 8% because that’s when they tagged him… you didn’t help anyone with that add on but yourself and you obviously do not know how to control the add on to toggle settings… how much harder would it be to TAG THE WORLD BOSS AND TYPE IT YOURSELF!!! LMAO LOL HEHEHEHEHEHEHE CRAAZZZZZY IDEA!
Clogging up gen chat with world boss call out addons is also abusing the system, you get that? probably not. small brainzzzzzz
You know what trying to be helpful gets you? Griped at. I downloaded Silverdragon and set it to announce in general with coordinates but forgot to turn it off when I was running around the regular zones yesterday. Now because of one person it’s off for good and I’ll no longer be helping anyone else out when rares pop up in the new zones either.
Gen chat is for anything, you can separate your channels boss and not see Gen chat while raiding, ez fix… having 3 people unnecessarily call out when a rare dies is only necessary if when it is alive it is called out at a time where players have enough time to get to it… this is not the case the majority of time and we’re so deep into these zones that you are announcing unnecessary information.
And where does it say that using an addon to post in general is abusing the system?
And second of all, really want to start with harrasment and name calling?
Yes, including the use of an addon to point out when rares are up or have been killed. But you know what the difference between spamming and flooding is?
I agree. But instead of flagging these people for spam, why not suggest an idea to the developer about finding a way to limit the amount of messages by several people using the addon?
Announcing when a rare is up to when the rare dies isn’t unnecessary information.
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