Now?
(Actually, back in Vanilla through BC, my server was chill and actual selling went on in trade chat. It was scandalous.)
It was crafting, mage portals, guild recruiting, looking for more for PUGs (no group finder then so we used Trade), selling stuff, etc.
It was also body part spam, murloc movie game, and thunderfury spam. Sometimes other things that really did not belong on the game servers.
Also some general chit chat because servers were communities and most people sort of were acquainted with each other.
It certainly was not perfect and likely never will be.
Again, how about we flip the switch and make General a global chat. If you want to limit the Advertisers to Trade Chat, you should at least put a limit to what Trade may be used for… It’s either all is suggestive or nothing is suggestive…
You think Trade Chat is bad? Imagine what Barrens chat was like.
There is a reason why I have had trade chat off, and have not once turned
it back on, in 14 years. It was not booster spam.
I agree, now there is just room for the stuff you were missing and its not flying by hidden in all that spam.
Blizz needs to create a score system for the chats, where people that are mostly hateful will be “down voted” to the point of non existence.
On top of that Spam reporting should not even exist in trade chat, the posts in there should be “self controlled” by the system/server, maybe reduced to once every 15s?! or 30s?
Also, there should be more detailed reporting and levels that differentiate “language”, using a curse word atm has the same report as racism … that’s insane …
Most people use curse words all the time(not to offend others, i mean expressions like what the h…, what the f… and such) and those people, even though having this in chat isn’t very good, it should never be reported and punished the same way as someone attacking another person, much less if u compare to racism or any kind of discrimination btw.
Simple example for such:
Person A is always helpful and gets points every time the person helps someone and this helped person votes an “ok”.
Person B is always trolling and keeps getting reported and/or down voted.
Reports from person A SHOULD always have more importance than person B.
Why u could ask?! well, trolls have been ganging up on people everywhere, saw the other day a dude saying “I’m reporting every booster and everyone defending boosts” that is the definition of a hater …
On the same subject, people who do mostly do bad reports should be countered and at least muted too, because they are abusing/cheating the system to attack other people.
Yes, boosting communities, and even more those who used that to sell for real money, are bad for us, BUT haters and trolls are far worst and have been wandering around almost untouched.
What’s wrong with politics? It’s a valid thing to discuss. The issue is people can’t discuss it without getting mad.
I assume people think that if trade chat was jut sellers/buyers that they’d finally sell that green that dropped off a mob while they were questing 10 years ago 
those are called people
Nothing wrong with politics, but slurs like “Let’s go Brandon” do not belong in chat. My point is that Blizz stated that advertisements are only allowed in Trade Chat, if they wanna do this, then all other stuff should go in General chat. Racism, hate politics and more like this should not belong in either.
Because we don’t want to care about politics when we are gaming, we want to play the game and not have to listen to the real life stuff that people just argues about anyway
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nice to see the GD “spam report everything we don’t like” crew is getting people banned for doing free key carries.
i just watched a streamer who does not sell carries get logged out for saying in /2 that she was running free carries, did not even mention the stream. she did not get “squelched”. she was immediately logged out and her account now shows “inactive”.
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This would require me taking an action to solve my own problems. This is too much to ask! Realistic solutions please!
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That’s horrible! =(
I never am in “trade chat” since that is what the Auction House is for.
Just wanted to post this for those “Trade is only for Trade” crowd.
Then there is this…
yes, but mentioning carries (even free ones) in general can get you banned.
Not arguing that. This is for those are that are saying Trade is for selling only and any other banter is against the rules. I see that come up quite a bit.
correct it is a cesspool. but…that does not change the fact that trade is also a trading of ideas. Yes, idiots exist, and should be reported