Reporting boosting "communites"

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Hello fellow gamers.

I’m so tired of reporting lvl 1s and lvl 20s (Allied races) constantly spamming in tradechat. They’re all advertising for “NOVA BOOSTING COMMUNITY” or “OBLIVION BOOSTING COMMUNITY” or maybe “TWILLIGHT BOOSTING COMMUNITY”. I can’t even read the chat because there’s so many spammers, and they’re all so frequently pressing their spam-macroes.

I was glad when I heard the news about Gallywix, and how they got what they deserved, because I actually thought that this would lead to Blizzard actually dealing with these “people”. For half a day, tradechat was actually tradechat - people were selling mounts and BoE’s. It was wonderful, but the day after, everything went back to normal. Sadly.

For let’s be real, what are these “communities” doing with these massive amounts of gold?
What would you do, if you had hundred of millions of gold?

Yes there’s a few gold sinks like the long boy, and the BMAH.
But let’s be real with hundreds of millions of gold in stock, these people are selling them for real life money.

It’s really ruining everyone’s experience in cities, and the spamming is making this game feel “cheap”, because of how rampant it is, and how little it seems Blizzard cares.

On top of that, just think of how toxic it is for the game as a whole that people are incentivised to buy their way through content.

I will keep reporting them, and I will keep on /w’ing them to waste their time, and I will keep on trying to get evidence from their discords that they are selling/accepting real life money for their gold or “services”.

(And no, I’m not gonna download an addon to filter tradechat. It’s Tradechat, not NOVA BOOSTING ADVERTISECHAT)

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But they’re advertising a trading service.

You trade them gold and they will carry you through a Raid/M+

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Gallywix was banned because a few members did RMTs, not for gold boosting.

That is fine and dandy in Blizzard’s eyes as long as the ads aren’t in LFG. I think the best solution as many, many people have said is to have a seperate boosting channel, but Blizz can’t do that without looking like they support boosting, so they are stuck between a rock and a hard place frankly.

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By all means keep reporting them (in fact I encourage you to) for spamming trade chat as that is out of line, but as for the actual boosting as long as it’s only for gold there’s nothing you can do

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I like your dedication bro. Hope that works out!

I just take the tradechat window out of my main chat window, so it doesnt get spammed.

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use badboy and report them ^.^ update keywords /badboy and add some new ones like ‘‘nya’’ n’ya’’ ‘‘timed’’ ‘‘trade loot’’ ‘‘full clear’’ etc xd

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Not exactly helping himself though.

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Trade chat never made in mind to spam boosting service mindlessly.

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It wasn’t made to spam, period.

It also wasn’t made to mess around in, but that doesn’t seem to stop people.

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Exactly. I hope if we’re more and more people who report them, we can maybe get Blizzard to do something. (Either banning them or creating a specific boost channel)

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I started playing SWTOR recently and after about 5 minutes I was so glad that WoW doesn’t have a global chat.

So many gold sellers…

For now all you can do is report and ignore I’m afraid.

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If they’re not spamming Boost they’re spamming something else.

I remember back before boosts when gold selling was a big thing people spammed that.

Or people would constantly spam their guild, or their spam what they wanted to sell.

It’s been a spam fest as long as I’ve been playing the game, just what’s spammed has changed over the years

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I’m also playing swtor, and sofar, and only meet those spammers in starter zones, and on the fleet, but not as much as in WoW.

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Still irritating AF, and it’s for gold selling, which is even worse than boosting in it’s impact on an online game.

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What exactly are you reporting them for? For doing trade in trade chat?
Do you also report people who frequently post “WTS tidespray linen”?
Do you report guild recruitment as it’s not trade related?
Do you report people randomly chatting because it doesn’t belong to trade chat?

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Yes, there were irl money spammers, which blizz got rid very soon.

But the gold boost spammers still there. Since its not again ToS.

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Ok but all the gally boosters and advertisers simply changed communities xd?

Few people getting banned for RMT doesn’t mean boosting will be banned or that their stance on it changed.

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yet ;)) soon… +)

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I think it’s the “spamming” part that’s key to the issue. There’s a difference (granted it’s somewhat subjective) between spamming and frequently posting.

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I think Blizzard will have to change their stance on boosting yes, because those people make more gold than they can spend and the only incentive to do so is RMT. Once you’re past a certain amount of gold, why continue?

If there’s people who continue past that, it’s most likely because they RMT. I don’t think there can be any other reason to reach billions of gold.

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He got a problem with 10 people spamming the same community’s services every 5-10 seconds.
And then we have 3 other communities with 10 people each, doing the very same.

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