{"id":921,"date":"2007-09-12T06:58:01","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T12:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/2007\/09\/city-of-spammers\/"},"modified":"2007-09-12T06:58:01","modified_gmt":"2007-09-12T12:58:01","slug":"city-of-spammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2007\/09\/city-of-spammers.html","title":{"rendered":"City of Spammers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess it must earn enough customers to be worth it, because I, too, have noticed the upsurge in spam &#8212; personal tells pointing you to a website for PLing, farmed influence, etc.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;ve usually \/petitioned their asses, the devs have put in a new command (per <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofheroes.com\/news\/patch_notes.html\" target=\"_blank\">the patch last night<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;This version includes a new chat command.<\/p>\n<p> <strong><strong>\/ignore_spammer<\/strong><\/strong> <\/p>\n<p> By using this command, a user will let our customer support know that they consider the person they added to their ignore list as one that is \u201cspamming.\u201d For example, if a player receives an in-game tell advertising for a real money trade web site, they can use the \/ignore_spammer command, followed by the name of the character they received this advertisement tell from to put them on ignore.<\/p>\n<p> Ideally, the user can then follow up with a \/petition to also let us know of the disruptive behavior via that method.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how useful this is, if it&#8217;s still suggested that folks \/petition with more details (evidently Customer Service can&#8217;t easily pull up the chat logs to see what the kerfuffle is about).&nbsp; And I actually only rarely \/ignore the spammers because I&#8217;ve only rarely gotten any follow-up tells from them.<\/p>\n<p>Still, if it makes it a bit easier to point the annoying gits out, I&#8217;m willing to take the extra step.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess it must earn enough customers to be worth it, because I, too, have noticed the upsurge in spam &#8212; personal tells pointing you to a website for PLing, farmed influence, etc.&nbsp; While I&#8217;ve usually \/petitioned their asses, the devs have put in a new command (per the patch last night): &nbsp;This version includes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2007\/09\/city-of-spammers.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;City of Spammers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":352,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources-rules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}