Disable GS1 in PMs
 

I'm sick of people sending me messages like
and getting
Does anyone even use the message codes?

#n told me he likes it in the butt.

can #a please reconnect, our servers are experiencing lag on their end

I disagree with this thread.


Yeah, quite a lot of people do, and far from all for bad reasons. You can make a lot of masses about selling/trading something (just an example) more personal with clever use of them.

If someone abuses them, punish the induvidual - no reason to remove the function.

Use the wordfilter and filter them. When I was manager, I put them in there. If someone's removed them, that's easily reversible.

They are in the word filter. I don't care about people abusing them, I'm talking about stuff like "#1" being replaced with the player's sword. No one uses that.

Ahh, I think I understand your point now. It's not about the abuse, nor about the "clever uses" they do have. It's about the fact that if someone puts say #1, #2, #3, etc then they get converted (Or, in the event they are filtered from PMs, ignored and rejected). In that point of view, there is definite conflict there.

Simple:
Keep #n, maybe #a, and ditch the rest.

change #1 to #sword or something etc

use swords on era, problem solved.

nah I agree, can be quite annoying I think.

why would having that exist in PMs even be necessary?

This I support.

So you really suggest that putting #n/#a into a PM makes it more personal?

It can make marketing mass messages more fun, if used correctly, and if people actually try to do it. Not the boring old "Selling xyz; Buying abc" thing, but maybe something along the lines of:

"Hello, #n!
I know what you need. More firepower! How about a nice M60? Unfortunately, the market price of that is quite high. But if you buy one from me, you can save 20%! You better not take too long deciding, because I don't have many left.

Bob"

Now isn't that awesome?

I'm more likely to ignore that than "buy xyz". If I'm going to be playing in Graal's silly economy, I'm going to do just that. No one wants to read three lines of exposition before buying guns.


ed; it's the equivalent of telemarketers. and telemarketers suck.

You seem to be missing the point entirely, or you're just arguing for arguments sake. Nobody said you would have to "play in Graal's silly economy", nor that you should pay any more or less attention to three lines of exposition than you would to random crap. What Crow stated is one of the ways it can be used in a more-helpful-than-spam way.

more important would disabling HTML in PMs

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whats rule sword2.png of the internet?

rule sword3.png is, you do not talk about fight club
rule shield3.png is, you do not talk about fight club

Except it actually is not helpful at all??? Looks like it is you who is missing the point here. ;)

But what Crow said is not helpful, and actually acts as spam, turning a quality mass (that once straight and to the point declared what it's about) into some trivial mass of words and insincere personal interest. My point about the "silly economy" was an accurate representation of the people who would be interested in a buying/selling mass. They don't care about all the words surrounding the item being purchased or sold, and using scripts to emulate someone's name is even less direct than not pointing it to a specific person.

I think something in serveroptions would be great here, like:
allowpmmessagecodes = false/true
If its true you can also limit whats used by:
limitpmmessagecodesto = #n,#a

That way servers can decide if they want to use message codes and they can define what codes they want to be able to use.

Did someone send you nudes of a fat chick again?

"hay i forgot the name of my sword can u #sword me plz"

"do i know u?"

/show attributes/outfit/the server's equivalent

nop