Cellphones and Business Cards with a PURPOSE (spam prevention measure)
Posted: October 18, 2020, 4:17 am
Your name: [Lsrcr]Karu_Tepes
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Importance of suggestion: 9/10 for the more 'popular' users
Why should it be accepted:
Lately, there has been a rather large issue with spamming, begging, and other forms of general annoyance going on. It's not just one or two, but almost half the server. Every time I log in, I see 3-5 messaged saying hello in mainchat, which I absolutely do not mind. But I also get 4-8 PMs at once of "hello" which IS bothersome. One, I can't reply to each one. Two, it's absolutely spammy, and three, if I miss one and don't say hello back, someone feels ignored and gets pissed off. I either have to deal with this, or turn my PMs off so no one can talk to me. Quite a few users do that. But it leads to an issue...
If I wanted to PM say... Moral, I have to put in mainchat "Hey moral, PM?", hope he sees it, then he has to look up my id, type a command, then we can chat. Except people can STILL pm me, and if I'm using /r I end up 90% of the time sending a reply to the wrong person. It's a minor thing, but when it happens multiple times a day, it gets to be frustrating. Even worse is the allow pm command only works for that session. If you or they time out, you have to repeat the whole thing again before you can continue your conversation. So here's my idea...
Cellphones and Business Cards. It's a simple concept, but works well. If two users are friends, they meet up and type /givebusinesscard (id) or /gbc (id). That adds their name to a list. So say I exchange cards with Moral. Instead of saying "allow pm moral" in chat, and all that crap, I simply type /call and pick his name from a list. A message shows up saying "[Lsrcr]Karu_Tepes is calling, type /answercall to accept.". Then him and I can use /c to chat back and forth. He never has to unlock his PMs, never has to look up my ID, just one command and it's done, with nothing on main chat. Furthermore, because it's /c, if someone else PMs me, I don't have to worry about /r sending a message to the wrong user. You could only have one call at a time. If someone else tries, they get a message saying "(user) is already in a call.". Makes things easier.
Commands:
/givebusinesscard (id) and /gbc (id): gives your name to another user, adding yourself to their list
/call: Opens a menu of people who's cards you have. Select one to start.
/answercall: begins the conversation.
/c: sends a message to the person you're on the phone with
/endcall: stops the conversation
I know it seems pointless to many, but some of us are tired of this. It's frustrating to be PMing someone and some random user PMs you for group rights and you use /r and end up telling them something private. And it's annoying to have to ask a close friend to allow your PM because they turn them off to stop annoying spam PMs. And even if they allow you to PM them, you still face the random user PMing you and interrupting the chat. And this has to be done every single bloody time one of you logs in. I'd rather just type one command and start a chat than go through the current system every time I log in.
Suggestion headline: Add
Picture:
Importance of suggestion: 9/10 for the more 'popular' users
Why should it be accepted:
Lately, there has been a rather large issue with spamming, begging, and other forms of general annoyance going on. It's not just one or two, but almost half the server. Every time I log in, I see 3-5 messaged saying hello in mainchat, which I absolutely do not mind. But I also get 4-8 PMs at once of "hello" which IS bothersome. One, I can't reply to each one. Two, it's absolutely spammy, and three, if I miss one and don't say hello back, someone feels ignored and gets pissed off. I either have to deal with this, or turn my PMs off so no one can talk to me. Quite a few users do that. But it leads to an issue...
If I wanted to PM say... Moral, I have to put in mainchat "Hey moral, PM?", hope he sees it, then he has to look up my id, type a command, then we can chat. Except people can STILL pm me, and if I'm using /r I end up 90% of the time sending a reply to the wrong person. It's a minor thing, but when it happens multiple times a day, it gets to be frustrating. Even worse is the allow pm command only works for that session. If you or they time out, you have to repeat the whole thing again before you can continue your conversation. So here's my idea...
Cellphones and Business Cards. It's a simple concept, but works well. If two users are friends, they meet up and type /givebusinesscard (id) or /gbc (id). That adds their name to a list. So say I exchange cards with Moral. Instead of saying "allow pm moral" in chat, and all that crap, I simply type /call and pick his name from a list. A message shows up saying "[Lsrcr]Karu_Tepes is calling, type /answercall to accept.". Then him and I can use /c to chat back and forth. He never has to unlock his PMs, never has to look up my ID, just one command and it's done, with nothing on main chat. Furthermore, because it's /c, if someone else PMs me, I don't have to worry about /r sending a message to the wrong user. You could only have one call at a time. If someone else tries, they get a message saying "(user) is already in a call.". Makes things easier.
Commands:
/givebusinesscard (id) and /gbc (id): gives your name to another user, adding yourself to their list
/call: Opens a menu of people who's cards you have. Select one to start.
/answercall: begins the conversation.
/c: sends a message to the person you're on the phone with
/endcall: stops the conversation
I know it seems pointless to many, but some of us are tired of this. It's frustrating to be PMing someone and some random user PMs you for group rights and you use /r and end up telling them something private. And it's annoying to have to ask a close friend to allow your PM because they turn them off to stop annoying spam PMs. And even if they allow you to PM them, you still face the random user PMing you and interrupting the chat. And this has to be done every single bloody time one of you logs in. I'd rather just type one command and start a chat than go through the current system every time I log in.