A player was able to spam chat without being caught by any spam filters. Apparently adding a ! to the end of every other message avoided it completely? All messages below were sent within a minute and there were more after. Player wasn't Plat. Code: _Darkslayer_: your mom patrick star: your mom _Darkslayer_: your mom! _Darkslayer_: your mom _Darkslayer_: your mom! _Darkslayer_: your mom _Darkslayer_: your mom! patrick star: yourmomomomomomomomomomomomomomomomo Player ItzzAzrael_HD left the game (Disconnect by user.) _Darkslayer_: your mom [Bad Surfer] Zuraistial: hes here _Darkslayer_: your mom! _Darkslayer_: your mom _Darkslayer_: your mom! _Darkslayer_: your mom _Darkslayer_: your mom! _Darkslayer_: your mom patrick star: uyourmomom, _Darkslayer_: your mom! _Darkslayer_: your mom _Darkslayer_: your mom! _Darkslayer_: your mom Malice has completed stage Watermelon! Player Malice has ranked 8th on the Weekly Time Trials leaderboard with the time of 1229.5807 seconds! Malice has completed the map! Malice has earned 2500 cubes for completing the map! _Darkslayer_: your mom! [Server Queen] Malice: yay _Darkslayer_: your mom _Darkslayer_: your mom! _Darkslayer_: your mom _Darkslayer_: your mom! patrick star: yourmrmrmr
Ah, I see what he was doing. For explanation; there are two spam filters in place. One of them is more long term and if player attempts to send the same message repeatedly, it'll outright block it (and force them to wait). The second filter is a general flood filter - the problem here is trying to make it effective without annoying the average player. It'll only trigger if the player is trying to spam faster every second and a half or so. If the wait was any longer faster typers (like myself) would trigger the protection and for reference I actually benchmarked it against my typing speeds to try and find the optimal place. The only other option I could add would be a quota essentially. Players can only send x amount of messages every 10 seconds or so, or after a message it adds 1 to a tally which gets removed x seconds later. If they hit a cap they'll have to wait for their quota of messages to drop off before typing again. Such a thing is possible but again, it's trying to find the balance for players who like to type in short bursts of messages, but also keeping it reguarly intact. It is fair to say however that as per usual, Platinum would not be affected by this.
Yeah it's just a pain they can do it if they want to grief, but we don't see it often. Was just surprised how much they were able to spam. Possibly a filter if they have <1 days played time on the server?
Something like that isn't impossible either, but it can be detrimental to the players. I'll have a look into it though.