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Leaven Joined: Fri Feb 03, 2012 5:46 pm Posts: 151	Spam Filter on VGS Can we please have a spam filter on the VGS? I'm really tired of hearing how some player is the greatest for the entire match or having to stop defending the flag, open the console and manually disable the guy. And why does the spotting targets feature have this filter and not VGS? Often I actually need to spot 4 players and I get a 10 second spam delay, meanwhile even if I got those targets called out you wouldn't hear them over "I am the Greatest!" which apparently has no limit?! At the very least can you put a mute button on the scoreboard so I don't have to stop and type in /mute?
Tue May 15, 2012 2:35 am

Cyanistic Joined: Sat Feb 18, 2012 2:16 pm Posts: 3783 Steam Gamer Name: Cyanistic	Re: Spam Filter on VGS Press VGSx5 times in a quick amount of time and see what happens.
Tue May 15, 2012 9:05 am

DibbzTheLoner Joined: Mon Mar 05, 2012 8:30 am Posts: 1616 Location: Australia Steam Gamer Name: Dibbz	Re: Spam Filter on VGS All VGS has the same spam filter - and yes Spotting counts as a VGS. _________________ This signature is green. I like the colour green. Wait, why are you still reading? It should be obvious that this signature is pointless and just here to be green. Stop reading already! You're procrastinating too much!
Tue May 15, 2012 10:11 am

Frostiken Joined: Sat Dec 25, 2010 12:42 am Posts: 1045	Re: Spam Filter on VGS Cyanistic wrote: Press VGSx5 times in a quick amount of time and see what happens. Press VGS an infinite amount of times in a moderate time and see what happens. The spam filter should hard-filter rapid-fire VGS messages quickly, and filter simple overuse of VGS over longer durations.
Tue May 15, 2012 10:13 am

Cyanistic Joined: Sat Feb 18, 2012 2:16 pm Posts: 3783 Steam Gamer Name: Cyanistic	Re: Spam Filter on VGS Frostiken wrote: Cyanistic wrote: Press VGSx5 times in a quick amount of time and see what happens. Press VGS an infinite amount of times in a moderate time and see what happens. The spam filter should hard-filter rapid-fire VGS messages quickly, and filter simple overuse of VGS over longer durations. If it's such an issue mute. There's not much else to tell you if people abuse this. If we fix it so THEY can't abuse it like that, nobody could use it properly and it'd be useless.
Tue May 15, 2012 4:02 pm

Leaven Joined: Fri Feb 03, 2012 5:46 pm Posts: 151	Re: Spam Filter on VGS Cyanistic wrote: If it's such an issue mute. There's not much else to tell you if people abuse this. If we fix it so THEY can't abuse it like that, nobody could use it properly and it'd be useless. See the second part of my post, I'd love to just mute ppl, but I don't want to have to stop playing for a few seconds to do it. In this game a few seconds can change everything. I play Hof a lot and if I open the console to mute I'll invariably either die or lose the flag to a capper I couldn't even see when I opened it. All I'm saying is that the filter doesn't prevent someone from shouting "I am the greatest!" immediately after they just finished saying it, and they can do it for the entire match.
Tue May 15, 2012 5:27 pm

Cyanistic Joined: Sat Feb 18, 2012 2:16 pm Posts: 3783 Steam Gamer Name: Cyanistic	Re: Spam Filter on VGS Leaven wrote: Cyanistic wrote: If it's such an issue mute. There's not much else to tell you if people abuse this. If we fix it so THEY can't abuse it like that, nobody could use it properly and it'd be useless. See the second part of my post, I'd love to just mute ppl, but I don't want to have to stop playing for a few seconds to do it. In this game a few seconds can change everything. I play Hof a lot and if I open the console to mute I'll invariably either die or lose the flag to a capper I couldn't even see when I opened it. All I'm saying is that the filter doesn't prevent someone from shouting "I am the greatest!" immediately after they just finished saying it, and they can do it for the entire match. Well propose a system that makes muting quicker. I can't figure out one. Still as of right now if you really can't take them doing that just leave the server and go to another one. It'd be hard to implement a system that wouldn't punish good players as well. i constantly use VGS commands and I sometimes get a cooldown. (It's often sometimes) There's also other times where I'll spam my vgs because it's hilarious that people get so upset over it. I normally just do it for a match.
Tue May 15, 2012 5:47 pm

Frostiken Joined: Sat Dec 25, 2010 12:42 am Posts: 1045	Re: Spam Filter on VGS You could argue that the mute makes having any sort of spam filter redundant, because usually it's suppressing spotting messages. I don't see a downside to just tweaking the automute to ban you from VGS after sending 4 messages less than a second apart each, or after sending 12 of the same message in a row, or something like that.
Tue May 15, 2012 7:10 pm

Coloradoguy234 Joined: Sun Jun 19, 2011 10:26 pm Posts: 178 Location: Colorado	Re: Spam Filter on VGS T:A needs a better filter. I'm tired of the chat being completely worthless because everyone is spamming VGW or VGS. There should be a 10 second delay between chat commands.
Tue May 15, 2012 8:56 pm

Cyanistic Joined: Sat Feb 18, 2012 2:16 pm Posts: 3783 Steam Gamer Name: Cyanistic	Re: Spam Filter on VGS Coloradoguy234 wrote: T:A needs a better filter. I'm tired of the chat being completely worthless because everyone is spamming VGW or VGS. There should be a 10 second delay between chat commands. That's stupid.
Tue May 15, 2012 9:06 pm

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Leaven

Joined: Fri Feb 03, 2012 5:46 pm
Posts: 151

Spam Filter on VGS

Can we please have a spam filter on the VGS? I'm really tired of hearing how some player is the greatest for the entire match or having to stop defending the flag, open the console and manually disable the guy. And why does the spotting targets feature have this filter and not VGS? Often I actually need to spot 4 players and I get a 10 second spam delay, meanwhile even if I got those targets called out you wouldn't hear them over "I am the Greatest!" which apparently has no limit?!

At the very least can you put a mute button on the scoreboard so I don't have to stop and type in /mute?

Tue May 15, 2012 2:35 am

Cyanistic

Joined: Sat Feb 18, 2012 2:16 pm
Posts: 3783
Steam Gamer Name: Cyanistic

Re: Spam Filter on VGS

Press VGSx5 times in a quick amount of time and see what happens.

Tue May 15, 2012 9:05 am

DibbzTheLoner

Joined: Mon Mar 05, 2012 8:30 am
Posts: 1616
Location: Australia
Steam Gamer Name: Dibbz

Re: Spam Filter on VGS

All VGS has the same spam filter - and yes Spotting counts as a VGS.

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Tue May 15, 2012 10:11 am

Frostiken

Joined: Sat Dec 25, 2010 12:42 am
Posts: 1045

Re: Spam Filter on VGS

Cyanistic wrote:

Press VGSx5 times in a quick amount of time and see what happens.

Press VGS an infinite amount of times in a moderate time and see what happens.

The spam filter should hard-filter rapid-fire VGS messages quickly, and filter simple overuse of VGS over longer durations.

Tue May 15, 2012 10:13 am

Cyanistic

Joined: Sat Feb 18, 2012 2:16 pm
Posts: 3783
Steam Gamer Name: Cyanistic

Re: Spam Filter on VGS

Frostiken wrote:

Cyanistic wrote:

Press VGSx5 times in a quick amount of time and see what happens.

If it's such an issue mute. There's not much else to tell you if people abuse this.
If we fix it so THEY can't abuse it like that, nobody could use it properly and it'd be useless.

Tue May 15, 2012 4:02 pm

Leaven

Joined: Fri Feb 03, 2012 5:46 pm
Posts: 151

Re: Spam Filter on VGS

Cyanistic wrote:

If it's such an issue mute. There's not much else to tell you if people abuse this.
If we fix it so THEY can't abuse it like that, nobody could use it properly and it'd be useless.

See the second part of my post, I'd love to just mute ppl, but I don't want to have to stop playing for a few seconds to do it. In this game a few seconds can change everything. I play Hof a lot and if I open the console to mute I'll invariably either die or lose the flag to a capper I couldn't even see when I opened it.

All I'm saying is that the filter doesn't prevent someone from shouting "I am the greatest!" immediately after they just finished saying it, and they can do it for the entire match.

Tue May 15, 2012 5:27 pm

Cyanistic

Joined: Sat Feb 18, 2012 2:16 pm
Posts: 3783
Steam Gamer Name: Cyanistic

Re: Spam Filter on VGS

Leaven wrote:

Cyanistic wrote:

If it's such an issue mute. There's not much else to tell you if people abuse this.
If we fix it so THEY can't abuse it like that, nobody could use it properly and it'd be useless.

Well propose a system that makes muting quicker. I can't figure out one.

Still as of right now if you really can't take them doing that just leave the server and go to another one. It'd be hard to implement a system that wouldn't punish good players as well. i constantly use VGS commands and I sometimes get a cooldown. (It's often sometimes)
There's also other times where I'll spam my vgs because it's hilarious that people get so upset over it. I normally just do it for a match. :roll:

Tue May 15, 2012 5:47 pm

Frostiken

Joined: Sat Dec 25, 2010 12:42 am
Posts: 1045

Re: Spam Filter on VGS

You could argue that the mute makes having any sort of spam filter redundant, because usually it's suppressing spotting messages.

I don't see a downside to just tweaking the automute to ban you from VGS after sending 4 messages less than a second apart each, or after sending 12 of the same message in a row, or something like that.

Tue May 15, 2012 7:10 pm

Coloradoguy234

Joined: Sun Jun 19, 2011 10:26 pm
Posts: 178
Location: Colorado

Re: Spam Filter on VGS

T:A needs a better filter. I'm tired of the chat being completely worthless because everyone is spamming VGW or VGS. There should be a 10 second delay between chat commands.

Tue May 15, 2012 8:56 pm

Cyanistic

Joined: Sat Feb 18, 2012 2:16 pm
Posts: 3783
Steam Gamer Name: Cyanistic

Re: Spam Filter on VGS

Coloradoguy234 wrote:

T:A needs a better filter. I'm tired of the chat being completely worthless because everyone is spamming VGW or VGS. There should be a 10 second delay between chat commands.

That's stupid.

Tue May 15, 2012 9:06 pm

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