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Game & Forum Discussion => Game Discussion => Topic started by: iCharlez on September 05, 2016, 09:01:27 pm

Title: What Is 'Spamming the Chat' Considered to YOU?
Post by: iCharlez on September 05, 2016, 09:01:27 pm
So recently, I was on FeralHeart in-game, and I was advertising both through movies and posting in the local chat.
I was only posting in the local chat every 6-8 minutes. I only published a movie clip when it fell off the chat, to which my chat box was fully extended.

I had a user that whispered me and told me that I was being 'annoying' and they told me to stop.
It was worded something like, "We don't need you advertising in the local chat because it's annoying. Please stop advertising."
I had a very long, dragged out conversation with them through whisper, and they kept telling me that I was spamming. I simply replied, (not as rude as they were), and said something along the lines of, "I am not doing anything wrong. I am not posting excessively, therefore, I am not breaking any rules."

I asked them what 'spamming the chat' was considered to them, and they replied, "If I see the same thing posted 3 times in the same chat."
Ummm, okay. I am not spamming then. Not even my published clips were posted excessively like some people's are.

Anyways, my question is, what is spamming considered to you?
Title: Re: What Is 'Spamming the Chat' Considered to YOU?
Post by: CosmoFursi on September 05, 2016, 09:05:39 pm
to me, spamming the chat is just someone either using one letter constantly every post )ex: "e" "e" "e" over and over again). spamming to me is people saying non sensible things repeatedly. spamming is just people trying to be annoying or to get attention.

i don't think too much on spamming. sure, it annoys me sometimes, but i don't hate it completely.
Title: Re: What Is 'Spamming the Chat' Considered to YOU?
Post by: Reaper on September 05, 2016, 09:07:08 pm
In my opinion spamming is when someone is shouting the same thing over and over again every second and won't stop doing it. As long as the person doesn't spam almost each second then to me it is not considered spamming.
Title: Re: What Is 'Spamming the Chat' Considered to YOU?
Post by: iCharlez on September 05, 2016, 09:08:20 pm
Quote from: babystrit on September 05, 2016, 09:05:39 pm
to me, spamming the chat is just someone either using one letter constantly every post )ex: "e" "e" "e" over and over again). spamming to me is people saying non sensible things repeatedly. spamming is just people trying to be annoying or to get attention.

i don't think too much on spamming. sure, it annoys me sometimes, but i don't hate it completely.

I definitely agree with you on that one. I've had multiple situations where people either fill the chat up with random letters while CAPS LOCK is on, and things where people just post random letters individually for attention.
Title: Re: What Is 'Spamming the Chat' Considered to YOU?
Post by: ArcticGalaxy on September 05, 2016, 09:09:01 pm
To me, spamming is when someone posts the same movie clip 7-10 times in a dang row or someone that just....spams a bunch of letters OVER AND OVER AND OVER!
Title: Re: What Is 'Spamming the Chat' Considered to YOU?
Post by: iCharlez on September 05, 2016, 09:11:31 pm
Quote from: ArcticGalaxy on September 05, 2016, 09:09:01 pm
To me, spamming is when someone posts the same movie clip 7-10 times in a dang row or someone that just....spams a bunch of letters OVER AND OVER AND OVER!

OH MY GOD that happens so many times! Definitely what most consider spam.
Title: Re: What Is 'Spamming the Chat' Considered to YOU?
Post by: Kryvul on September 05, 2016, 09:17:07 pm
I've seen people call a casual conversation "spam". It sounds like it may have been one of the same people.

Spamming is more considered filling up the entire chat in repeated and shortly timed posts by one person. Whether that's just composed of 1 word posts, random letters/numbers, etc. I doubt this person that told you to stop spamming knows what spam is.
Title: Re: What Is 'Spamming the Chat' Considered to YOU?
Post by: greenart6 on September 05, 2016, 09:19:02 pm
That's definitely not something I'd consider spamming.

To me, spamming is clogging up and disrupting the chat with a repetitive or uninformative word, phrase, etc. and usually with malicious intent (trying to annoy others, get a reaction, etc.) Advertising fairly often can be annoying, sure, but I wouldn't consider it spamming. And especially in your case, that doesn't sound like it would be annoying at all!

But yeah, if its disruptive, fills up the chat, and has no purpose other than to be an annoyance, then I'd consider something as spam.
Title: Re: What Is 'Spamming the Chat' Considered to YOU?
Post by: Rizzla on September 05, 2016, 09:20:01 pm
To me, real spamming would be posting the same movie clip over and over until it's the only thing in the chat and no one else can post anything without getting 'shouted over' as I would put it. Or, of course, posting the same meaningless thing repetitively, etc. I mean, seriously, if that person thought that was spamming I would love to see them try to survive the entierty of the rest of the internet in all its spamful glory lol.
Title: Re: What Is 'Spamming the Chat' Considered to YOU?
Post by: OutofBreath on September 05, 2016, 09:23:26 pm
To me spamming is posting over and over again, with like, 4 seconds in between, especially in all-caps. Or when people post movie clips 5+ times in a row.
Even conversations that are just typed in all-caps.

What you were doing would definitely not be considered spamming.
Title: Re: What Is 'Spamming the Chat' Considered to YOU?
Post by: Morgra on September 05, 2016, 09:24:20 pm
Everyone has their own definitions of what 'spam' is, so it's no surprise that someone believed you to be spamming, while most of us probably wouldn't say that you were as long as you weren't repetitively posting.

To me, spamming is just when people clutter the chat with absolute nonsense. People overdoing their movie clips (only repost occasionally people), people CapsLocking a bunch of short-word responses. Short word responses aren't the problem, it's when you feel the need to send a bunch of them within the same 10 seconds. *groans* It's an overall attempt to capture everyone's attention in a really desperate and irritating manner.

In regards to what you said, I don't think you're a problem. You're keeping the mindset "I gotta limit how much I advertise, I don't wanna spam" It sounds like you actually know what spam is. :)
Title: Re: What Is 'Spamming the Chat' Considered to YOU?
Post by: Nak3dAng3l on September 05, 2016, 10:28:29 pm
spamming is when i can't even read a single darned message while having a conversation because of one or more people. another reason i changed my view completely, went from grammar and capitalization to non like a person would cut his/her hair to signify a change, and stop using local completely. it just wasn't working for me, and i no longer had a problem with anyone. sure, i can't meet new people any longer, but if someone really wants to chat with me it's literally in my bio that i have local off and only chat via whisper or party.

lol. :)
Title: Re: What Is 'Spamming the Chat' Considered to YOU?
Post by: Vwang on September 06, 2016, 01:09:54 am
Spamming for me is more like movie clips or e
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Title: Re: What Is 'Spamming the Chat' Considered to YOU?
Post by: Kynvuu on September 06, 2016, 01:32:50 am
Sorry that this happened to you, it's a shame when some people have to pick on others for no good reason. I'm not sure how accurate to the textbook I am on my definition, but I believe that spamming is a repeated phrase, word, movie etc. that is either a)unnecessary or unimportant or b)excessively rude and purposely malicious. Putting out a couple of movie clips in a row or maybe an ad or two every few minutes is neither unnecessary or purposely meant to be rude and disruptive, so in my books you're in the okay. Don't worry too much though, it's most likely that those people were either trying to pick fun out of you or were ignorant on the topic themselves and were wrongfully accusing you.
Title: Re: What Is 'Spamming the Chat' Considered to YOU?
Post by: kiaz1st on September 06, 2016, 02:21:33 am
I think basically everyone else has said it really, constant repetition of a letter, word or sentence. Especially if it is purposefully done for attention or to harass.

It is also incredibly, stupidly annoying.
Title: Re: What Is 'Spamming the Chat' Considered to YOU?
Post by: Insoholic on September 06, 2016, 09:37:23 am
To me, spam is flooding the public chats with many copies of the same message, in an attempt to force the message on people who would not otherwise choose to receive it. I'm sorry to hear what happened to you. I would recommend blocking them, making you unable to see eachother.
Title: Re: What Is 'Spamming the Chat' Considered to YOU?
Post by: DancingWithDeath on September 06, 2016, 10:27:05 am
To me it's flooding the chat with the same thing, or abusing the roar/howl action.
One time, this person said "STOP HOWLING OR I WILL TELL FH TO GET RID OF HOWLING" I replied by saying "They might not listen. KovuTLK abandoned the game, so there might not be anymore updates." (But there was) Because her character was a feline, she then said "FINE I WILL ROAR ALL NIGHT" and I said "That will not help, it's just going to make it worse." She could've just turned off the sound effects. -_-
Title: Re: What Is 'Spamming the Chat' Considered to YOU?
Post by: Wyldercat on September 06, 2016, 09:24:42 pm
In agreement with those above, I classify spamming as the excessive repeatin' of an irrelevant message, or anythin' else that could flood the chat in no one's interests whatsoever.
Title: Re: What Is 'Spamming the Chat' Considered to YOU?
Post by: Ryval on September 07, 2016, 03:53:39 pm
Wow. That is sad for that person to say that to you. You were completely fine with your advertisement. Just because they don't like it doesn't mean they have to make a fuss about it to you in Whisper. And if they are so bothered, they can leave to another map OR block. But what you done was not spamming. That person is just out there to get at others it seems so I would just block them the next time they whisper. Spamming is like what the others said: repeating one action over again each second. It's not what that person called you out for. You were completely fine.
Title: Re: What Is 'Spamming the Chat' Considered to YOU?
Post by: yourlocalcrow on September 08, 2016, 09:32:07 pm
To me, spamming is pushing out ten of the exact same thing in a row, or it being every other line of the chat. What ISN'T spamming, is having three on a screen. I try to keep at least two of my movies on screen at a time with a slightly extended upwards chat, and that sometimes means that there may be three on screen at a time. If I see one movie is going to go off soon, I post another.

A technique I used to use to avoid spamming was to count to ten before posting another. As movies slowly began to die off, I pushed it up to fifteen/twenty.
Title: Re: What Is 'Spamming the Chat' Considered to YOU?
Post by: WolfQueen on September 09, 2016, 11:48:52 pm
the meaning of "spamming" isn't up to a person. spamming by official definition in an online chatroom is when you repetitively send the same message multiple times in purpose to flood a chat. spamming can also be roaring/howling excessively, and whispering someone in the manner. sending three similar messages/movie clips in intervals isn't really spamming.
the person who told you off was wrong. you were advertising for your roleplay on a game designed for roleplay, so that's what you do if you want attention. it's pretty simple.