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Originally Posted by O'Neill
i dont know why soe dont just add an option to the persona window to ignore tells/mail from L1 to L10 players. unless on your friends list
That way it could be turned off if you make a new toon, and want to group with others, not perfect solution, but better imoa
and i thought soe already stopped L1s from sending mail, unless on a full payed account, not buddy key accounts etc... guess not(
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Because blocking tells by level wouldn't help. The spammers sell power-levelling services too, remember. How long do you think it takes them to run 5 toons through the Isle and get them to 11? Then spam away they will, safe from your filter. And meanwhile the filter, while not stopping appreciable amounts of spam, would cause a lot of headaches from players who've created a new toon but can't talk to any of their guildies to get an invite into the guild. Yeah it's easy enough to camp over, but you know how the complainers are and SOE has to look at CS time dealing with 'em. With minimal or no return, the cost just isn't worth it.
And SOE does prevent trial and buddy-key accounts from sending tells off the Isle, at least until they go to full-paid status. The spammers just invest in a $15 game-time card and get untraceable full-paid accounts to spam with.
Myself, I just unchecked the Spam box in the chat channel selection and I don't even get the notification text anymore. Seems to solve 99% of the problems with spammers. We'll see how long it takes for them to react, and whether they can do anything effective to get around the filter.