Block Those Stars!

***.lua
add '500p' into the block list

been using this great addon for a while now, only problem I noticed is it's filtering out the ambuscade yells, no idea why.
This is what I'm filtering out atm
local black_listed_words = T{string.char(0x81,0x69),string.char(0x81,0x99),string.char(0x81,0x9A),'abyssea','Regal','Fast Cast','Buy?','Clear Mind','1%-99','Job Points.*2100','Job Points.*500','Job Points.*4m','JP.*2100','JP.*500','2100','Capacity Points.*2100','Capacity Points.*500','CPS*.*2100','CPS*.*500','ｆｆｘｉｓｈｏｐ','Jinpu 99999','Jinpu99999','This is IGXE','Clear Mind*.*15mins rdy start','Reisenjima*.*Helms*.*T4*.*Buy','Aeonic Weapon*.*3zone*.*Buy','Tumult Curator*.*Kill','Aeonic Weapon*.*Mind','Aeonic Weapon*.*Buy','Selling Aeonic','99999','Empy Weapons Abyssea','50 50 75'}

That's because they are getting smarter based on your image some of those numbers aren't standard numbers you hit on your keyboard. They look close but are not. That 5 for sure isn't standard in "500" the 2 or 1 in "2100" isn't either. The 0's might not be either but I haven't been in game for a while.

master will be standard though since it's using auto translate.

has anyone tried logger addon to pull the exact text that is being shouted?

I noticed that they stopped auto-translating "Fast Cast" as well. That term being using in yells has always bothered me anyway. That and "Clear Mind". Just type "fast" and "clear", ya knobs.

Packetviewer addoon would be better.

After talking with some people yesterday I may try out a "American QWERTY keyboard" only setting. It would block JP too but most seemed ok with it.

Is it me or are the rmt shouts getting completly out of hand. First it was more the jp merits mxp shouts but now they added everything else to it like drops and ody. And the next best thing is those a..holes change name on a daily base so we cant block em with stuff like ***. Or they find a new way to write it down to evade those kinds of programs.
Its realy starting to any me and i think many others, and no way SE is doing anything about it.
I dont wanna disable all shouts incase seomthing happens that i wanna do lol.
Sorry just venting my frustrations :)

Why wouldn't they get worse?

If you show you don't give a *** and stop them, more and more and more are going to start doing it.

Don't stop the bots, more people bot.
Don't stop the sellers, more people become sellers.
Don't stop the sphere bots, more people become craft bots.

Always the same, always going to be.

So very true, another big fu from SE to us.

There should be some requirement for yelling. I see level 1 people planted at the exact spot you start after initially creating a character and they're flooding chat. Will it get fixed with a "level 20+" or "rank 2+" requirement though? No.

Or, my idea, everyone just moves to Mhaura, turns off yells, and conducts non merc activities there in shout.

I guess you could just make friends otherwise.

It's an incredibly easy thing to fix. They don't want to.

Every inconvenience they would put in could cost them a possible sub. Your annoyance costs them nothing. You won't apply the pressure by threatening to pull your subs. It's not even worth theorizing about.

The only problem with the level or rank requirement before yelling, it that it isn't a problem to them.

You'd have half an hour of relatively low RMT yell activity while the initial bunch of new characters got to whatever the requirement was, then it'd be back to service as normal from then on. It'd just be part of their routine to get to whatever level or rank etc that was required.

If anything it could exacerbate the problem, as more characters get made to fill in the gaps.

is there any way i can add in commonly used japanese letters? i dont want to see any more japanese /yells, its not like they are ever gonna invite non-jp players into their pickup groups anyhow

how do I filter out the double-width character strings. this is a relatively recent innovation on the spam and I expect it to get more annoying as time goes, so a solution that lets me filter regardless of the character code page in use would be ideal.

windower/addons/libs/chat/chars.lua has most of the escape codes used, it's a variant of shift-jis and the jp style letters are 2 byte sequences between 0x82 0x4F and 0x82 0x9A

the simplest way to do it is probably to run a bunch of gsubs or a custom function to convert them to normal lettering prior to your filters being used