Goodbye Gold Spammers!

[DevTeam] [Zeke]: I love that I get emailed when someone reports spam on the boards, but I can't do anything about it.
[DevTeam] [Nachonut]: lol i got you
[DevTeam] [Astaldo]: How about "hide email address from public checked" and it's still visible in all my posts...
[DevTeam] [Astaldo]: I'd delete my account on this site, but by the time I realized the problem half the spambots on the planet had it already
[Developer] [Pazza]: Astaldo if you log out and view your profile with a refresh you'll see that your email is hidden.
[Developer] [Pazza]: Your user level on the forums permit you to see emails even though they are marked hidden.
[DevTeam] [Astaldo]: Ah.. thanks for the clarification and apologies for "crying wolf" in that case :
[DevTeam] [Kaidenn]: PAZZA! i miss you.
[DevTeam] [Nachonut]: Lol, it's funny how it takes spam message reports to get me to come back
[DevTeam] [sylvanaar]: Check out the beta tester forum. Need alpha testers and feedback so I can come up with a maintenance plan.
[Developer] [Pazza]: loaded some new spam prevention modules... lets see if this stops the bastards.
[DevTeam] [Maziel]: Thought I'd check in and say Howdy Doody from Australia
[DevTeam] [Maziel]: Yeah the spam from shoes salesmen was becoming insane
[Guest] [Delakando]: What ever happened to the ability to track friend's location by wim? Other then just showing their general zone location.
Zeke pokes his head around the corner.
[DevTeam] [Zeke]: Anybody home?
[Guest] [Theillur]: I would like to know if it is just me.
[Guest] [Theillur]: http://www.wimaddon.com/forums/index.php/topic,1796.0.html
[Guest] [Nev]: I'm here
[Guest] [Nev]: I don't think anyone else is though
[Guest] [tomasio]: great site [url=http://freeonlinemusicvideos.net].[/url] [url=http://freepeopleclothing.org].[/url]
[Guest] [Theillur]: Nev it is not working for Zeke as well.
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: im here
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: ...
lothaer yawns sleepily.
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: sooooooooooooooooo
[Guest] [j3ff]: Hello. It is very quiet. I would love a response to my thread directly below your "Been very quiet" thread!
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: Check out my new post in the Skins forum
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: Posted a new download in the skins forum check it out
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: Zeke, Maziel, Pazza, Nachonut, sylvanaar, Kaidenn, Astaldo where are you?
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: It would be a real shame if WIM was left to die.
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: i think these forums are dead, Sylvanaar dosnt post on them as he only bug fixes when possible. WIMs future isnt very bright
[Guest] [justgiz]: Yea, its rather sad.
[Guest] [silvercola]: I wish it had skype
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: noy possible for a addon to do.
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: ...........
[Guest] [elzershark]: where is the download file?
lothaer beckons everyone over to you.
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: has anyone been able to take WIM to the beta yet?
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: PTR*
[DevTeam] [Maziel]: *sticks head up and looks around*
lothaer cries.
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: who the hell flagged my post as spam?
[Guest] [primalforce]: Hey guys
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: hello Primalforce.
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: PAZZA COME BACK!!!
[DevTeam] [Nachonut]: Ahhh memories
[Guest] [Ignis]: wtb update
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: soooo.....
Pazza starts to complain... Kinda reminds you of Sloans dont it?

[Pazza]

Well, this may be old news for some, but today I learned what Blizzard did to combat spam aside from their splam reporting feature. I am not sure if this was implemented during the patch or through a server side hot-fix, but guest accounts can no longer whisper anyone unless they are on that person's friends list. We had a discussion on our forums about such ideas. Thankfully Blizzard was thinking on the same track as its users.

This is great news and explains why my spamblocker hasn't picked up any spammers since the patch. In conclusion, I will continue to maintain WIM - SpamBlocker however I am thinking about excluding it from the main package since it is no longer needed. Some use it for the main purpose of filtering out people from whispering them by level. This is fine and it will continue to work as such. Before I learned of this news, I was planning on adding more reporting features into the SpamBlocker such as "auto report". I feel that this is no longer needed. You will be able to report users from WIM itself by right-clicking the senders name as well as reporting them directly from the notification of when a user has been blocked.

If I do decide to no longer package WIM-SpamBlocker with WIM, it will still be available for download under the plugin section of this website.

You are welcome to share your feedback on this subject by sending comments to this thread.

Sincerely,
Pazza

[Maziel]

Oh my you actually mean they listened to us?

About time.

That would be why we now see level 1ers attempting to spam via /say in stormwind since they have no other way.

Could quite possibly make gold spam blockers redundant?

[justgiz]

Yea thats what they are doing now, spamming say. also iv had a few try to invite me to a group to spam me there. but now its not that hard to just right click on their name, report and never hear a spam from them again. loving it.

[Maziel]

Yea thats what they are doing now, spamming say. also iv had a few try to invite me to a group to spam me there. but now its not that hard to just right click on their name, report and never hear a spam from them again. loving it.

Yeah. I run an auto decline party invite mod, so dont have to worry about the invite thing.

And with spammenot it'll detect that /say gold text and block it from the channel. Kind of makes it hard to report them. Messaged the author of SpamMeNot to integrate the report spam default blizz function in, we'll see what happens.