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Marswipp · 05-28-08, 09:08 AM

Just wondering if there is anything going to be in place to fight botting, hacking, vulgar expletives (i.e. f- and s-bomb), URL spamming, and non-name character names (Specifically ones that are totally gibberish).

My idea for the URL spammers: One or two one-week user ban(s) for the first (and maybe second) offense, and deletion of the offending character(s). After that, permanent user ban and character deletion. Reason: URL spammers are usually botted. Besides, users of gold sellers should be unworthy of this community's standards. The filter would monitor for all variations of advertising certain websites. This filter will ignore whitespace. What would appear in-game as "w w w. l a y o g o l d .c o m" the filter sees a real URL, it will also be coded to recognize other variants such as mixed-case, and letter substitution (e.g. double letter, number, leet). If any URLs get past the filter, only a small server-side update is needed. The filter could easily be made client-side.

The reason the URL filter idea is extremely strict: URL spamming ruins immersion.

05-28-08, 09:08 AM	#1
Marswipp Mind Flayer Characters Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Richardson, Texas, United States, GMT-6 Posts: 1,169 Thanks: 304 Thanked 158 Times in 147 Posts	Filters Just wondering if there is anything going to be in place to fight botting, hacking, vulgar expletives (i.e. f- and s-bomb), URL spamming, and non-name character names (Specifically ones that are totally gibberish). My idea for the URL spammers: One or two one-week user ban(s) for the first (and maybe second) offense, and deletion of the offending character(s). After that, permanent user ban and character deletion. Reason: URL spammers are usually botted. Besides, users of gold sellers should be unworthy of this community's standards. The filter would monitor for all variations of advertising certain websites. This filter will ignore whitespace. What would appear in-game as "w w w. l a y o g o l d .c o m" the filter sees a real URL, it will also be coded to recognize other variants such as mixed-case, and letter substitution (e.g. double letter, number, leet). If any URLs get past the filter, only a small server-side update is needed. The filter could easily be made client-side. The reason the URL filter idea is extremely strict: URL spamming ruins immersion. __________________ Warning: Chance of inane remarks. Caution: Possible chance of off-topic statements. It's easy to clock more time than you've used in total. Just let the game run while you're away.