Even with the current 5 minute cooldown, these messages are still played on repeat hundreds of times per day. We already have /ads; we don't need this advert spam in chat.

 

What texture pack are you using?

 

if ur only skyblock experience is being afk for 10 hours to advertise a shop no one's visiting, that's kind of on you.

support

 

why does chat look like that?

 

Is that at regular time intervals or his he just spamming it manually?

 

It doesn't show in this screenshot but can confirm Exo's ad is on a correct 5 minute timer. Which doesn't make it any less annoying.

 

his ad going to drive me to jump into the void

 

100% support, even increasing the cooldown to 15 minutes would be an improvement!

 

The new .shops find feature removes the need for most adverts.
AFK shops are a different but shouldn't need advertising often.
I advertise mine manually, so only when I'm on and only when it's available.

 

A 10 or 15 minute interval would be great

 

support, or even a much increased interval requirement.

 

Also an official statement about ads that spread over multiple lines would be nice. It didn't seem clear if it was allowed or not when I brought it up to staff, but that's really spammy.

 

Ill increase the time between my advertisements

 

Support, a much much better way to get around the annoyingness of chat ads whilst also allowing players to advertise would be forcing every player on the server to open the /ads GUI every 5 minutes.

 

This isn't the premise here. Specifically automatic chat advertisements should be abolished. A bot doesn't care if you can see the ad 5 times in the last page of chat, so long as it was 5 minutes ago it will send another one. People can see how much spam their message will make when sending them manually, and can even make the message more engaging on the fly.

For example:

Greenbean: how can I make money guys??
Exo: I'll pay you if you afk at /visit goopieraxx, nobody is there right now so come quick!!

 

support

the gameplay should not be so dry that you need to advertise your thing every 5 minutes, i think it being longer would be an improvement imo

 

Advertising AFK shops should never be automated as the majority of the time, you’ll be advertising something that isn’t available. Unless you’re not paying enough.

 

If a change is made to the chat cooldown on eco, can it please apply to survival as well? In the period 2-3 hours before to sever reboot when I'm usually online, chat tends to be pretty quiet, so the auto-adverts dominate and become annoying - I assume there are other regular quiet times when this happens too.

Also this post is marked as global, so I'm not sure why any changes to chat cooldowns would only apply to economy.

Agree with you Sky - I don't have issues with chat adverts, but the exact same message sent over and over again makes global chat way more annoying to be in.

 

The trouble with banning automatic advertisements is the issue of verification. How do you prove someone is using an automatic advertising macro? I definitely think the time limit should be increased to 10 or 15 minutes but can't see how banning auto ads would realistically be enforced.

On a side note, please can we get rule clarification on what does and doesn't violate the time rule? I've seen players spam chat once per minute with different things (I've got keys! I sell map art! I have free food! I have moss! I have a profit shop!) with the claim being that this does not violate the rule because all the messages are different.

A different facet of the same issue which ive seen, is someones main account and alt accounts both advertising the same island. Each account is holding to the 5 minute window but the island itself is being advertised twice as often as allowed. The rules, again, are non-specific as to this situation and players have taken advantage of that to spam chat.

Finally I completely agree with a need for clarification on multi-line advertisements. Players are up to 2 or 3 lines per advert now and I can see that increasing if it's not clarified.