Last edited by Lochton; 2021-02-24 at 09:06 AM.
FOMO: "Fear Of Missing Out", also commonly known as people with a mental issue of managing time and activities, many expecting others to fit into their schedule so they don't miss out on things to come. If FOMO becomes a problem for you, do seek help, it can be a very unhealthy lifestyle..
Except they arnt still there, they get banned and they make new ones, its a cycle and its the harsh reality of boosters, its a big market, and there is fucking nothing they can do about it.
ban specific words? well they just go "W T S" instead, and players who say for example "Newts M+ runs!" gets banned cause they included WTS in their text...
There is nothing they can really do then other maybe hire someone to literally just watch the group finder all day every day 24/7 and ban anyone who is selling runs in LFG.
you say "they could have done so much more" but you dont say WHAT they could have...
FOMO: "Fear Of Missing Out", also commonly known as people with a mental issue of managing time and activities, many expecting others to fit into their schedule so they don't miss out on things to come. If FOMO becomes a problem for you, do seek help, it can be a very unhealthy lifestyle..
Install an addon from my signature and reduce gold boost spam by 90%+. Patterns are updated weekly and I'm thinking about introducing throttle mode that will filter out any repeats for several minutes no matter what they are.
Garrison Mission Manager: Select best followers for BfA, Legion and WoD missions.
Instance Spec: Switch to spec suitable for your role when "dungeon ready" pops up.
LDB: WoW Token: Monitor WoW Token price changes in LDB display.
Other addons: Quest Map with Details * LFG Filter for Premade Groups * Obvious Mail Expiration.
Except there was a solution (and blizzard destroyed it for worldquest reason). The ability to filter via white/black listing specific words in LFG. It was possible in Legion then restricted during Antorus patch. The goal was to prevent auto grouping at WQ location and largely failed because you can still manualy fast group with total strangers by typing 6 digits.
Boostsellers (and half are RMT advertiser bots , let's be honest) prosper on the LFG API because Blizzard can't do anything about it and implemented restrictions that are both ineficient (regarding worldquest grouping) and overreaching (regarding LFG).
So in the end it's 2 loss for players, one half win for blizzard and a win for boostsellers.
I'm failry surprised and would gladly use such addon if you could provide me a name or a link.
As far as I know :
How can I exclude groups with "WTS" or "Boost" in the name?
This is no longer possible. Starting with the Battle for Azeroth Prepatch, the group name is protected by Blizzard and can no longer be evaluated by any addon.
No I mean the one you use. You said you had a working one not API restricted in group name.
Because the one from Rowaasr is from 2017, last edited for patch 7.2.5 doesn't work since BFA (that's the first comment) but i tested it to be very sure. It doesn't even load of course.
Please give me the name of your addon.download an addon that does allow you to blacklist specific words, cause thats what i do my dude.
The next quote is from Premade Group Finder FAQ.
How can I exclude groups with "WTS" or "Boost" in the name?
This is no longer possible. Starting with the Battle for Azeroth Prepatch, the group name is protected by Blizzard and can no longer be evaluated by any addon.
PFG can't filter by group name. You stated that you can. You must certainly use a different addon.
What is the name of the addon that can filter bots circunventing the restrictions of blizzard supposed to protect us ?
Hello Fel. I tried Googling "Premade group filter" and got to https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addon...-groups-filter so I assume this is the addon you mean since I'm having a hard time finding anything else.
I then went into their faq at https://github.com/0xbs/premade-groups-filter/wiki/FAQ and it says the following:
"How can I exclude groups with "WTS" or "Boost" in the name?
This is no longer possible. Starting with the Battle for Azeroth Prepatch, the group name is protected by Blizzard and can no longer be evaluated by any addon."
Did you perhaps mean a different addon? I even checked the comments in CurseForge and there is a guy asking if he can filter out the "WTS plague" and the reply says it's not possible.
They can change the way the system work. Not able to use custom text, only a drop down list of pre-defined sentences etc.
Create a listing, choose your dungeon and key level or raid/bosses. And thats the title of the listing. And then drop down menus for everything else. classes you need/want, bosses you are going for/have killed etc. There is no reason to have custom text. Players would quickly adapt to this and there would be no way to advertise
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