Ok, I’m actually scared to test it out myself for fear of getting scolded for spamming, so you try it!
So far this is what it does: you need to join the channels yourself and you need to leave them yourself after running this macro. See if it works so far and then we’ll expand on it.
/run local msg="LFG STUFF PROVIDE MESSAGE";local channels = {1,2,4,5,6};for k,v in pairs(channels) do SendChatMessage(msg, "CHANNEL", GetDefaultLanguage(unit), v) endThis is the full functionality:
/run local msg="LFM Y FOR X";local names = {"lfg", "LookingForGroup", "world"}; for k,v in pairs(names) do JoinChannelByName(v) end local channels = {1,2,4,5,6};for k,v in pairs(channels) do SendChatMessage(msg, "CHANNEL", GetDefaultLanguage(unit), v) end for k,v in pairs(names) do LeaveChannelByName(v) endHowever, it’s too long for a macro. The question here is: do you want me to try to fit them into two macros, or show you how to create an addon for this?
The first script works very well, I realise i don’t need to keep joining and leaving the global channels. I can just stay in those channels and have them in different tabs, so they don’t clutter my main chat tab up. Also can you get banned from running scripts like that?
Lua script usage isn’t bannable. At the end of the day, if Blizzard didn’t want people to use lua scripting, they wouldn’t enable it through chat or addons. What they usually do if they don’t like a certain feature is to simply disable it in their API. But in short - you’re perfectly safe, I script some of my stuff as well and never had any problems.
Well if your goal is to get auto-silenced from a bunch of spam-reports then this seems to be the best speedrun strat for that. Maybe coming in second to the tactic of whispering people about your gold selling site or something.
GL HF with your Chat-ban speedrunning.
Well outside of being automatically silenced for spamming due to people reporting when they see the same message repeated 5 times.
Imagine how it looks to someone who’s stood in town and is in all those 5 channels, suddenly their entire chatbox is this guy LFG to his dungeon.
People WILL be annoyed and many will report it, perhaps enough to get him silenced.
I get it, I myself wouldn’t ever use such a macro. It’s entirely up to him to decide. I made it because it was fun to make, nothing else
I honestly have no idea what you’re talking about. I’ve been using my existing macro for like 3 months and i’ve never had any angry message or ban. Do you think i’m sitting there pressing the button 67 trillion times in the space of five seconds or something?
If I am in the same city and channels as you when you post it I’ll see the same message duplicated 5 times by 1 button press.
You don’t think that’s a little much? Honestly?
Well I’ve stipped out the general channel that’s unsessasry but the rest I think is fine. Most of the time i’m out questing when searching for a group so only 3 of the channels are activated most of the time anyway. I probaly press the button every min or so. So no I don’t think it’s too much at all. And besides even if you’re on the same server as me you’re horde so you won’t even see my messages.
This macro is a very effective way to get yourself onto the ignore list of potential future dungeon party members.
Good luck advertising a dungeon run in future to people who have put you on ignore…
Congratulations on missing my point entirely, I can see you can’t be reasoned with so I wish you well with your ‘speed-run to chat-silenced’ strat. GL HF.
Well you can explain if you want. I’m actually curious as to what you’re talking about. But i can’t see how you’re affected or anyone else for that matter. I’ve already been doing it for months with no issues. I would understand if I was pressing the button loads of times to take over the chat, but it’s not like at all. In fact as soon as my messages are displayed within 5 seconds their gone, because so many other people are advertising. I mean I’ve seen people write in muliple channels twice, just so their message are more likely to get seen.
I was making a “Imagine I’m an Ally player in the same city as you” statement. Not saying me as a Hordie on another server is gonna be annoyed by your messages.
I thought it’d be pretty simple to understand but nevermind.
I see, but your point still doesn’t have any substance i’m afraid. I would like to have a good reason why this would get me chat silened?
Using macros for chat is ALWAYS too much, and absolutely unnecessary.
I dont even understand why blizz allows chat macros at all…
But it saves me like 20 - 30 min on search times which is valuable. Why is to too much? Not one person has been able to explain why.
It does not save you 20-30 minutes.
I presume you are tanking, because of the “LF healer and DPS”.
I’m also a tank.
I play on a low pop server.
Never have I ever needed more than 10 minutes to assemble a group, and thats without macros.
Perhaps you are ignored by so many people that it becomes more difficult for you?
I dont know…
Yes I am a tank, and i can assure you sometimes it does save me that length of time. Even if it didn’t it enables me to quest without faffing about copying and changing text into 3 channels. Why would you not make life easier for yourself? Also, I don’t understand your last point, to me it implies that people had me muted before i started using my macro which is why i find it difficult? But if i wasn’t using the macro before how would people be annoyed at me?
I have explained it to you.
Several times.
Over and over.
You refuse to listen apparently so let me put it in the simplest possible terms that I can.
Imagine if you will that I was an Alliance player in the same City as you when you’re looking for a group, let’s say you press your button twice in 2 minutes, as you said you’re pressing it once every 60 seconds or so.
And many people’s chatboxes arn’t taking up 200 lines of text, so one press of your button and suddenly their ENTIRE CHATBOX is taken up by like 5-10 lines of your text repeated over and over across five different channels.
If you can’t see why that might annoy some people enough to where they’ll report you for spamming then I honestly dunno what to tell you man, GL HF I’m out.
It doesn’t fill their entire chatbox though. It’s no different to everyone else who advertises. My messages are gone within 5 seconds as the chat is moving so fast. I suspect that a lot of people would have their channels seperated into tabs anyway so that would make your point invalid for those people. But even If they don’t, it’s nowhere near as bad as you’re making out. You’d have a point if i were pressing the button muliple times.
I’ve never been reported or banned for doing it before, as i keep saying. The only thing I can see is that 5 channels is too many sure, as i don’t need to do general and trade chat. Trade chat will suffice.
If you were correct i’d be banned right now, but yet nothing has happened and i’m finding dungeon groups a lot faster than before.