D2 Spambots

[iago]

Ugh, there's one that joins games, now.  Somehow, he manages to join every public game I play in, and he can't be squelched because "User is not logged onto battle.net".  

Why hasn't Blizzard banned this account yet?

[j0k3r]

Because blizz doesn't care anymore.

A simple method of blocking this (and nobody does it because they are idiots) is to set a level restriction to keep level 1s out (so level restriction = your level - 2).

(NOTE: It's a level 1 character)

[iago]

Ah, that's a good idea.  I'll do that from now on!

[Newby]

I've seen a level 98, level 67, level 54 join the same game I was in and spam. So really, hope that your level restrictions are good or the game is private.

[j0k3r]

How long ago was this? I haven't played D2 in 2 days and the only thing I saw before that was a level 1.

[iago]

I saw level 1 only.  But this is hardcore ladder.. maybe on softcore they have better characters?

[Crypticflare]

iago you play HC Ladder as well? You should hit me up sometime, I've massed quite a bit of fortune on D2, if yo need some lower level items to get your characters going

[iago]

iago you play HC Ladder as well? You should hit me up sometime, I've massed quite a bit of fortune on D2, if yo need some lower level items to get your characters going

That's exactly the thing I try to avoid, I like to do everything for myself.  There's more pride that way, it's more exciting to find a new item and such.  I tend to solo

Thanks, though!

[Grok]

iago you play HC Ladder as well? You should hit me up sometime, I've massed quite a bit of fortune on D2, if yo need some lower level items to get your characters going

That's exactly the thing I try to avoid, I like to do everything for myself.  There's more pride that way, it's more exciting to find a new item and such.  I tend to solo

Thanks, though!

Play team solo.  Or, failing that, Hans Solo.

[j0k3r]

iago you play HC Ladder as well? You should hit me up sometime, I've massed quite a bit of fortune on D2, if yo need some lower level items to get your characters going

You still play Cryptic? I recently quit, and I think I'm going to make about $250 off my 'fortune'.

I can't stand to play this game anymore, the retarded realm down bugs, bugged enemies, and somehow I lag in D2 with a radeon9700.

[Newby]

Yeah, the bot was in hardcore ladder on USWest.

[Skywing]

You could write a hack to filter out all messages pertaining to somebody if they are only in the game for a very short period of time, similar to how we filter out floodbot spam in channels.

[iago]

You could write a hack to filter out all messages pertaining to somebody if they are only in the game for a very short period of time, similar to how we filter out floodbot spam in channels.

I was considering doing that.  I don't have any of the functions for 1.1 found, though, and because I rarely play public games, I dont think it's worth the time.  But I still might

<Edit> Another option might be to make squelches client-side.

[Skywing]

You could write a hack to filter out all messages pertaining to somebody if they are only in the game for a very short period of time, similar to how we filter out floodbot spam in channels.

I was considering doing that.  I don't have any of the functions for 1.1 found, though, and because I rarely play public games, I dont think it's worth the time.  But I still might

<Edit> Another option might be to make squelches client-side.

Doing that still makes it require manual work from the user to combat automatic spam.  Not good.

[iago]

You could write a hack to filter out all messages pertaining to somebody if they are only in the game for a very short period of time, similar to how we filter out floodbot spam in channels.

I was considering doing that.  I don't have any of the functions for 1.1 found, though, and because I rarely play public games, I dont think it's worth the time.  But I still might

<Edit> Another option might be to make squelches client-side.

Doing that still makes it require manual work from the user to combat automatic spam.  Not good.

True, but it's the easiest way.  Plus, all it is is clicking a button.