Removing the "auto-message" from Trader-Bot possible?

[Ennis]

Well, to be honest, I'm tired as many other people sure is 'bout the shout and trade channels being constantly spammed with crap like +>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<SOP 30K<<< and such.

Since I know most people will just tell "just filter both chats and problem solved", I think that's not the idea. Actually some people do want to trade things without leaving a bot maybe waiting for a PM or w/e, then you go to the city to announce that you wanna trade something and wait for a PM from someone who want to make some business with you. Nowadays that just can't be done, since the trade channel is constantly spammed and is just impossible to follow, leaving apart the fact that most announcement are dumb and useless since when you're looking for something, you usually use the "find store" function to search for what you want.

With this I'm just suggesting to remove the "auto-message" function from the actual bot, since it's only used to spam and, because of the number of bots doing this, makes a chat channel impossible to read nor follow (therefore this function is good for nothing since nobody actually reads the announcements). I know there's a forum to post this kind of petitions, but I prefer to bother normal users to see what they think before making some admin waste their time with, maybe, a stupid petition.

[baho]

Do a few /block to the spammers and that's it
Although removing this tradebot altogether would be better

[vuzothikiC]

remove that shit.im sure that noone looks in trade chat when he needs something.the spam there is so big and u cant even read 3-4 words cause new messages appear.REMOVE IT

[Kiu]

Do a few /block to the spammers and that's it
Although removing this tradebot altogether would be better

i think /block list has some limit, u cant just block so many bots...

[Lvnatic]

Yeah block them all, it would take only 2 hours.

[Ennis]

It will take you a long time, plus you'll have to update your "block list" ocassionaly. But the problem isn't that, the problem I mean to explain is that the trade channel can't be used for anything since it's stupidly spammed 24/7. You may say that via blocking every spammer you can use it, but what use can you give to a channel most people do not read? Even if you do, you can't expect everyone does since not every user uses the forum or is interested in blocking tons of dwarfs just because they think spamming "wts dmp" will make their sales better.

[socket]

Do a few /block to the spammers and that's it
Although removing this tradebot altogether would be better

i think /block list has some limit, u cant just block so many bots...

have big problem with limit, 64 slots only..

[Lvnatic]

Not to mention you can't even actually see their names when you want to block them, as you can't keep up with all those lines of spam.

[Lokocz]

Not to mention you can't even actually see their names when you want to block them, as you can't keep up with all those lines of spam.

u can click on their names in chat box.......

[Lvnatic]

That's not the point. No matter how you put it, trade bot sucks.

[Lokocz]

That's not the point. No matter how you put it, trade bot sucks.

i have around 50 peeps blocked and chat in aden looks cool