Runes of Magic US / AU

Just released my beta of ChatGuard NoSpam - an addon that keeps away the gold sellers.


ChatGuard NoSpam (or as I'll call it NoSpam from now on) takes a different approach to blocking the spammers then the other addons. NoSpam lets the spammers spam you as much as they want. How ever, NoSpam prevents those messages from appearing.

This removes the need for a blacklist - whether the ingame or provided by an other addon. Freeing you to use your blacklist for other players.


NoSpam is small, yet very very effective. In testing, both simulated and real-world, NoSpam has blocked 100% of the spammers, and that is right out of the box. I was having a blast sitting in vent, listening to my friends comment about spammers, yet not seeing one message.

Currently NoSpam blocks 94 known sites - some gathered from in game, others from doing a google search and manually checking them out.

(addon will say it is blocking 95 sites, there is a dummy site included for testing - testingantispam.com).

If a new site, or a site comes up in a different form then usual, NoSpam also will attempt to block the message in the same manor as email anti-spam software.

Each message is scanned for key words - each key word counts as 1 towards the spam threshold. If the threshold is met or exceeded, the message is blocked as spam.

Threshold is currently set to 5. The key word list is made up from the spammers messages.

NoSpam saves only two settings currently to your savedvariables file, the number of spam messages blocked, and whether or not it is enabled or not.

This removes the issues that the addon ShutUp had where its key words would be reset, forcing you to start over a lot.


Future versions will support the ability to add new key words, a UI for configuring, as well as blocking normal player spam (ie, "lfg FA 24+" messages every 30 seconds)

Known issues: NoSpam doesn't block spammers using /say chat. Hopefully next update.


ChatGuard NoSpam can be found at curse.com - http://rom.curse.com/downloads/rom-addon…ard-nospam.aspx


Also, wanted to say thanks to Crypton, author of Ultimate Blacklist - taking a gander at your code gave me the inspiration needed to block whispers... I was at a stand still lol, so thanks


Please, leave any comments, questions, suggestions you may have

Thanks,


BenHur

lol - I didn't take much of it.

I just used the part where you passed the event to the filtering function, and used that to set my mute flag inside the function.

I used a different method to actually block the messages from displaying.

Now I just need to figure out how to keep the Say Bubble from displaying lol


Benhur

Minor update was released earlier today.

Added a new site to the gold seller sites and a few key words.

Also fixed an issue with the way the language files are loaded.

Interesting fact - So far, during the time I have been running the addon, it has blocked 1.2 Million spam messages. Only time I have seen 1 message is when I forgot to turn it on. Those messages have been blocked using out of the box settings - no going in and modifying my copy because one slipped through.


Current version is 1.1 (1.11 based on curse.com - still getting the feel for how they handle uploads and such).

Please, give it a try - if you are using it, please let me know what you think - I welcome any kind of feed back

http://rom.curse.com/downloads/rom-addon…ard-nospam.aspx


Benhur

good question lol a month at most... I'm going to reset the counter, see what happens

Yeah - lol I realized what happend... I threw that number into the savevariables.lua file for testing purposes - I had forgotten I did that. I then ran the /nospam info command...

Which revealed an other bug - it wasn't properly counting the spam message.

After running the game for 3 days, in the higher levels where spam is less likely, the far more accurate count is 12 messages blocked.


I just put up version 1.2, which fixed the above counting issue.

It also fixes curseforge.com not packaging it properly, leading to the addon not being installed correctly.

Never used svn before lol


So no, no 1.2 mil messages blocked yet - though, if frogster staff weren't getting rid of spammers like they do, getting 2 messages a sec wouldn't be that far fetched. I have seen it a couple times where you have 2 or 3 spammers spamming at once lol

lol - thats fine. UBL has some nice features.

Only hitch that has affected nospam from working has been figuring out svn. Instructions if I remember correctly said to make a folder for the project, which I did.

Which ended up with the addon being packaged with the folder structure of "cgnSpamv1.1\cgnSpam\cgnSpam\<addonfiles>".


Either way, all that matters is that the spammers get blocked wether by UBL or cgnSpam, or even ShutUp lol - as long as the players are happy, I'm happy.

Sure, would love the link

Thanks

Finally an other update - Spammers have kind of forced my hand as they are now starting to add spaces between the letters of their sites.

Version 1.5 was just released. Changes listed below, but the three main changes are:

1. Whispers should now properly be fully blocked - in older versions a whispered spam message could still be seen when one opens up a whisper window.

2. Addon can be disabled per character using /nospam enable|disable toon (note: not specifying toon will enable/disable the addon for all toons).

3. Sites or words can be added with /nospam addsite site - keep in mind that any thing added here will cause the entire message to be blocked.

Currently no way to remove added site/word. Lua pattern matching is also supported.



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