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Chat Filter Reform to Censor Illegal Advertising

grassgrass
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edited February 2018 in Suggestions, Feedback, and Requests
Many illegal Ad-bots who spam advertisements in town and in FM entrance.

They sell mesos for real money which is against the game's ToS (Terms of Service).

Banning these Adbots seem not to be working since they are always making new characters.

Also, many of these malicious Ad-bots seem to bypass IP bans.

A suggestion I would make is to improve the chat filter to make it harder for bots to illegally advertise meso sales on MapleStory.

Bots are always bypassing the chat filter by putting brackets or symbols in their messages.

Here is an example of a bot advertisement with a sample name (not referencing any real company names for legal reasons):

30dfqaew: Buy Free Mesos at A(BCD)EFG.com!

ABCDEFG is the sample company name that is illegally selling mesos. The company's name is ABCDEFG and is listed in the chat filter, but is NOT censored because of the use of brackets to bypass the chat filter.

If the chat filter is updated to censor letters beyond brackets, the illegal botter would say this:

30dfqaew: Buy Free Mesos at *(***)***.com!

Strengthing the chat filter would curb illegal advertising and bot advertising. It will not fully stop illegal advertising, but I think making the chat filter a little more strict would put at least SOME illegal ad-bots out of business.
Renni

Comments

  • MehiaMehia
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    edited February 2018
    You forgot to include the part where people (not bots) who sell equipments (i.e lucid earrings, reaper pendant, perm tele rock) for real money too.
    grass
  • grassgrass
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    edited February 2018
    @Mehia

    Thanks, I'll keep that in mind too. RMT (Real Money Trading) is also illegal according to ToS, regardless if it's done by players or bots.
  • DarkPassengerDarkPassenger
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    edited February 2018
    Those sites make more money from returning customers than new ones. So that would prevent new customers (slow them down maybe) but not stop them.

    grass
  • MalvonMalvon
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    edited February 2018
    DarkPassenger wrote: »
    Those sites make more money from returning customers than new ones. So that would prevent new customers (slow them down maybe) but not stop them.

    Anything to slow the feeding of bots would be huge, I think of bots like a bunch of jackals that prey on weaker creatures and build there numbers when food is good; When you reduce or slow there feeding members of their pack start to die off because of lack of food and sooner or later they will stabilize again, but overall they will have harder time expanding there numbers because lack of new food.

    So in this case anything that can be done to make bots life harder is better for all of us.
    grass
  • ManiOhManiOh
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    edited February 2018
    if they could only work on chat censore and other real chat improve futures....
    instead makeing it "fancy" to move around and all that useless things .... would be nice but yea ;(

    Chat with ease when the chat menu is improved! You will be able to move the chat window around the game window to your desired location, or even pop it out of the game window completely. You can also organize your chat by creating or removing tabs in the chat window.

    http://maplestory.nexon.net/news/28265/v-193-maplestory-x-evangelion-update-preview