No word from IMC on this add-on?
AFAIK not yet.
/20letras
It also auto-blocked my guildmaster today within 10 seconds of me logging in, and no we werenāt talking about gold and no urlāsā¦
Published Alpha v0.6 on my repo tonight, as always please remember this is an Alpha.
Improved gold spam detection, should not longer trigger on players typing in an irregular pattern.
Rewrote spam detection for further message accuracy.
Fixed errors in detecting channel, friend, and player name.
Hey sorry about this, it should have never happened and was due to a failure on channel detection. Its now been resolved in my latest update.
After updating the addon a few times I tend to favor the Excrulon hook approach where the lua files are just in plain text under their own path.
Itās somewhat annoying to have to rename the file everytime itās extracted to the patch folder.
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If I use Execrulonās method, I loose 90% of my feature set. The issue I find with his method is among a few reasons.
- I canāt reliably use client addon events, thus limiting what I can do. (On_Init, Loading, Guild Events, etc)
- I do not wish to modify an existing game package (ipf) or rely off of another modification which does that.
What zip program are you using?
On another note, just reuploaded v0.6, now properly displays v0.6 version tag in the config panel. Has some minor tweaks to gold spam detection.
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Mind taking a Screenshot of this config panel? I used you old version v4 I think it used to work great but after I downloaded your latest version I donāt see any anything in the system config (iām assuming this is were it is) and typing /LKC does nothing
Yeah, this mod has so far generated a lot of false positives. Itās blocking people who arenāt bots just for mentioning the bots.
This is actually a serious problem as innocent players are now being mass flagged as bots by a user-created modās definitions of what constitutes a bot.
A user-defined mod is acting like a moderator.
Try restarting the game.
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Yeah, this mod has so far generated a lot of false positives. Itās blocking people who arenāt bots just for mentioning the bots.
This is actually a serious problem as innocent players are now being mass flagged as bots by a user-created modās definitions of what constitutes a bot.
A user-defined mod is acting like a moderator.
[/quote]Iāve ran many tests and havenāt seen a hit in my entire time using the addon on Live. I have spam detection set so unless a player is using gold selling phrases and structure they wonāt get hit. Iād love to see some example text which is causing the flagging.
Block and Report as goldseller are diferent. In fact, the āmodā has the āauto-reportā feature disabled by default, so itās not HIS fault that users active that.
Ah I see, didnāt realise some of your feature set relied on packing to ipf.
Iām using 7zip, donāt plan on changing.
Packing is a requirement, otherwise I canāt utilize events.
No offense but your own criteria for what constitutes a bot or not a bot should not be the basis for mass flagging. All testing fails when exposed thousands of players, MMOs in general verify that fact.
The most recent example was done just a few hours ago, a player had typed in shout something along the lines of āThese bots are like Buy. Our. Silver. We. Control. The. Markets. Resistance. Is. Futile.ā and that alone flagged him. So if by āgold selling phraseā you mean including the words āBuyā and āSilverā in the same sentence, then yes your mod is working fine.
Just be sure no one asks to āWant to Buy an Arde Dagger. Accepting Silver.ā
Does your mod not check for redundancy? Gold sellers tend to repeat themselves, perhaps checking for repeated wording would prevent the circumstances of isolated incidents.
In any case, Iām opposed to automated flagging which is why my option is turned off. But perhaps it should never have even been an option in the first placeā¦
Rather than changing something that works (even if the claim is that it may work too well sometimes) I would prefer to see an additional function to help remedy the problem.
How about a one-click button that unblocks everyone in your block list? Or have the addon create a separate text file with the names of every user the addon has blocked, and then have a button that unblocks everyone from that list.
It would allow for those accidents to get through without lowering efficiency as the user could just purge his blocks every few days. Spammers that were legitimately spamming would find their way back on the list and players that were accidentally blocked would be given a voice again.
Iād likely purge my block list every day. I may manually start doing that but, by now, itās gotten rather large.
I also do not use the auto-flag feature but I donāt think, false positives or not, that it should be removed. You risk your own RII when flagging from the addon, but, likely contribute to the bans of hundreds of RMT sellers with the feature on. For me, though, āout of sight; out of mindā and I donāt care whether they are banned or not. So long as I donāt have to see them then I donāt have to deal with their spam. In this I love LKChat more than anyone will ever know lol I mean itās a feature after all. You donāt have to choose to flag everyone it blocks. Thatās an option for you to tick in case you want to try and cleanse the server of the spammers more quickly.
This is do able, I can also setup an internal list of users blocked by the addon too.
Also, Iāve released v0.6a:
Added option for displaying reason for block/report (enabled by default)
Tweaked spam detection some more
Guild members are now part of your passive whitelist
Users are no longer passively ignore after being blocked only messages based on id
Fixed SpamNotice and System messages menu from showing.
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I installed the addon and I can access the menu ingame but it doesnāt seem to be blocking spam.
just isntalled the latest version
It seems to automatically block. which is nice, but I cant bring up the add on menu by typing /lkchat
any suggestions ?
Click the cogwheel icon beside the chat.
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This happens with me sometimes as well. I donāt always get the system message stating that the addon has been loaded: it will still block in the background but the settings panel wonāt be able to be opened. So itās like quasi-started lol Changing channels doesnāt fix that, but, I just re-open the game 1-2 more times until it loads then itās fine for the rest of my session. I think this was a suggested fix for something further up in the thread and it works for that too =)
Clicking the cog like ken mentioned above works too, but, that wonāt restore functionality of slash commands =/ for now we only have a couple anyway but later Iād imagine weāll see more and more. But yeah for now while thatās being fixed the settings cog should suffice XD
Loving this addon <3 have my like and be sure I will share it with others annoyed with the spammers and gold sellers <3