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    • CommentAuthorAnaral
    • CommentTimeMay 2nd 2008
     
    Is there a way to not show the chat spam when I DE?
    • CommentAuthorccox
    • CommentTimeMay 3rd 2008
     
    What chat spam are you referring to?
    • CommentAuthorAnaral
    • CommentTimeMay 3rd 2008
     
    The spam you get when you DE an item and it tells you what it's DE'd into:

    "13:40:20 Found that [Netherweave Belt] disenchants into:
    13:40:20 [Arcane Dust] x2"
    • CommentAuthorccox
    • CommentTimeMay 4th 2008
     
    Ok, not SPAM, just extra information that you don't want to see.
    (SPAM is a meat product, or unsolicited commercial messages)

    Alright, I'll see if I can add a switch to disable those messages.
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      CommentAuthordinesh
    • CommentTimeMay 4th 2008
     
    heh, we do tend to refer to our chat output as chat spam, ccox.
    • CommentAuthortestleK
    • CommentTimeMay 4th 2008
     
    lol I even called it "Chat Spam" in my options config for AutoMagic :P
    • CommentAuthorccox
    • CommentTimeMay 4th 2008
     
    Then that really diminishes the negative association of the word SPAM.

    SPAM is unsolicited garbage* (gold sellers, guild charters stuck in your face, people asking you to tank Kara every 5 minutes, etc.). These are things that someone else is doing for their benefit, that you shrug off the first time or two, then get annoyed with, and eventually angry about.

    But useful information that you just don't want to see -- eh, that's just a little noise. You know it has a real purpose, and isn't trying to be annoying, but you want some extra filtering to reduce the noise. If it were excessive (like an old bug in another addon that kept repeating a message every 0.1 seconds until you quit) - then the end user might call it SPAM just because it's repetitive, but really should be called a bug (it was fixed quickly).

    When Anarl said SPAM, my first guess is that we were sending out a message that annoyed other users somehow.

    For options, it should be something like "enable chat feedback" or "show disenchant results in chat". Calling it SPAM makes it sound like it would never be useful, or is actually intended to annoy.



    *Or a registered trademark of Hormel Foods, LLC enjoyed by school children everywhere (and Hawaiians) :-)
    PS. If you haven't seen spam.com - they don't take themselves too seriously, but it needs high bandwidth.
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      CommentAuthordinesh
    • CommentTimeMay 4th 2008
     
    I understand your point. But as far as I know "chat spam" is the common parlance for addon output that is excessive or otherwise undesirable to the installing user as well. If you want to make this one of your important issues, by all means, fight the power. You will probably need to get into dev channel and make your case, though.
    • CommentAuthorccox
    • CommentTimeMay 8th 2008
     
    fixed with revision 3101

    You'll find an option in the general tab "Show item yields in chat", just turn that off.
    • CommentAuthorAnaral
    • CommentTimeMay 13th 2008
     
    Thank you very much. :D
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