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Longer suspensions, its very annoying pushing your own limits by using the LFD tool to see mostly these groups. In fact, you can have someone sit there all day banning people that is how bad it is. That person will never run out of accounts to ban, if they do you can just go take a walk to certain area's and ban those bots. Spamming dungeons - blanketing area's where people sometimes quest etc. Always bots like this out there. Not all of them are bots yes, but still people disrupting normal game play none the less - like a bot. Maybe one day on more popular servers humans can join /1 and /2 again eh?
I found a solution to this issue some time ago. It's not 100% but it cuts out a bulk majority. There is a Weak Aura out there that lets you filter group finder by IO Score, and if certain roles are available. I personally set my minimum IO score at 10 to remove all the bots. :)* there is also an addon that does this as well.
It should be a ramping ban based on verified reportable offenses. Both chat and LFG areas. I am tired of all the spam. It never used to be like this in the first few expansions. Blizzard has let it get out of control. Yes yes I know guild repair and raid consumables funding...but you should just find ways internally to fund those efforts. The spam should stop.
Looking at this deeper i'm not sure how this is news. Wowhead published an article two years ago (almost to the day) about the blue post of this policy change. It can be found here. https://www.cuckhead.com/news=285321/in-game-advertising-policy-changes-for-group-finder
It's about time they started taking action against the people filling the LFG with their carries they're charging for. Stick to Trade chat if you want to sell stuff.
good suspend them all and slowly increase the suspensions.
It's a start, now can we get rid of them in trade chat so you know we can actually use it for trading......
Take them down in Trade Chat Blizzard even just with a Mute you have the ability to cleanse this! we believe in you!
Good. It's easy enough to deal with - report and it goes away - but people shouldn't have to.You - advertiser - knew you shouldn't have and still did it anyway.You were ignorant or stupid and deserve everything you get.
about freaking time blizzard
I hope they start to do heavier bans if it continues, I also hope they move on to people advertising in trade chat too.
Creating a group listing with WTS in the name should just immediately disconnect you and put you on a 1 hour timeout.
finally