An option to enable/disable filtering by channel? I'd like to turn it off for whispers.
For example I don't mind whisper spam (I very rarely get that if at all in the last months even without a spam mod), but I'd love to use Unsolicited only for General/Trade channel and /say to avoid the bots.
As good as it sounds, I wouldn't add the "auto report" feature. It only takes several people running the mod and one-false positive to give Blizzard a very convincing number of simultaneous reports of someone spamming when they weren't.
Also, it would great if it was also installable using the WAU (unless I'm just missing it).
Suggestion: Please let it also watch the general and the trade channel. They are both massively abused on my server... That'll be great.
Good point. I haven't used those channels in years myself :)
It should work on any channel, really - I've added it to the To-Do list. Thanks!
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An option to enable/disable filtering by channel? I'd like to turn it off for whispers.
Another excellent suggestion :) I'll get right on that (in the new year :))
Thank you.
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As good as it sounds, I wouldn't add the "auto report" feature. It only takes several people running the mod and one-false positive to give Blizzard a very convincing number of simultaneous reports of someone spamming when they weren't.
Also, it would great if it was also installable using the WAU (unless I'm just missing it).
Good point about the reporting. I'm not sure it makes any difference anyway.
You should be able to install it using the WAU - I did. But you may have to bypass the cache, as it is still very new and probably won't be in your cached list. To do that, you can click on the little refresh button called Reload Index next to the category filter. You'll find Unsolicited under Chat/Communication, by the way.
Yeah, I've been on vacation for 2 weeks :)
Now that I am back, I will be implementing more of these suggestions.
It will take a little longer, though, as I have a lot of things to do right now - including updating my other addons.
Getting Unsolicited to block messages in any channel is not a problem, but there are possible side-effects that will need to be ironed out too. For example, the words used and the behavior of a spammer are pretty common and acceptable in the trade channel. So I will need to come up with a good approach to catch only the spammers and not the legitimate messages.
Don't know if this is beyond the scope of this addon but what I'd really love would be to block all messages include the word Dirge or a link to [Dirge]. Don't know if its the same at others servers but at Shattered Hand the Dirge spam often gets out of hand and it's incredebly annoying, even more annoying then gold spamming.
No, this has not been abandoned. I'm still working on it - along with other addons. I've only got so much spare time :)
I'll see if I can upload a new version this weekend which allows you to turn off filtering for whispers. You do know people in your guild or on your friends list are not filtered, right?
Don't know if this is beyond the scope of this addon but what I'd really love would be to block all messages include the word Dirge or a link to [Dirge]. Don't know if its the same at others servers but at Shattered Hand the Dirge spam often gets out of hand and it's incredebly annoying, even more annoying then gold spamming.
I have never seen item links being spammed. What's the point of it? Could you give some more information about the kind of text / links that are in the message?
Anyway, I'll consider it for a future version. For now, other addons like the one linked above will hopefully work for you - or perhaps they are using some particular words that you can ban (see above).
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However every time it triggers it's giving me a "Unsolicited: Spam detected" and "Unsolicited: Reply sent"??
Also, possible to make the reply message a bit more obvious as in "<Unsolicited Spamblock> Please rephrase without a flagged word".
Nice idea though, I like how it's not overly complex like Spamsentry.
It doesn't at the moment. I'll add it to the To-Do list. Thanks!
Yeah, sorry about that - I had left some debug messages in there *blush*. They are gone now.
You are free to change the message (using /unsolicited msg <your message>), but I'll consider changing the default.
Thanks for your input! :)
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Highend
An option to enable/disable filtering by channel? I'd like to turn it off for whispers.
For example I don't mind whisper spam (I very rarely get that if at all in the last months even without a spam mod), but I'd love to use Unsolicited only for General/Trade channel and /say to avoid the bots.
Also, it would great if it was also installable using the WAU (unless I'm just missing it).
Good point. I haven't used those channels in years myself :)
It should work on any channel, really - I've added it to the To-Do list. Thanks!
Another excellent suggestion :) I'll get right on that (in the new year :))
Thank you.
Good point about the reporting. I'm not sure it makes any difference anyway.
You should be able to install it using the WAU - I did. But you may have to bypass the cache, as it is still very new and probably won't be in your cached list. To do that, you can click on the little refresh button called Reload Index next to the category filter. You'll find Unsolicited under Chat/Communication, by the way.
Cheers :)
Gief filter for general/trade channel and a toggle for whispers please :)
Now that I am back, I will be implementing more of these suggestions.
It will take a little longer, though, as I have a lot of things to do right now - including updating my other addons.
Getting Unsolicited to block messages in any channel is not a problem, but there are possible side-effects that will need to be ironed out too. For example, the words used and the behavior of a spammer are pretty common and acceptable in the trade channel. So I will need to come up with a good approach to catch only the spammers and not the legitimate messages.
edit: still awaiting Trade spam filtering and filtering by level :)
Easily editable to block other Itemlinks aswell
Oh my god, thank you, you are my hero! :D
Anyone know how to hijack the .lua to disable the whisper filtering as I "really" don't need that and it's getting very annoying, just the /say spam.
I'll see if I can upload a new version this weekend which allows you to turn off filtering for whispers. You do know people in your guild or on your friends list are not filtered, right?
Changes:
The features have been added as chat commands:
The next version will likely expose the toggles as checkboxes in the FuBar plug-in.
I'll try to make smaller changes per version from now on, thereby updating more frequently.
I'll try to get it working soon. I seem to be unable to join the LFG channel on my server at the moment, which makes it a little hard to test...
I have never seen item links being spammed. What's the point of it? Could you give some more information about the kind of text / links that are in the message?
Anyway, I'll consider it for a future version. For now, other addons like the one linked above will hopefully work for you - or perhaps they are using some particular words that you can ban (see above).