hi my IGN is mythica and i have been temporarily banned twice for "spamming" the first time i was banned, i was aware of the spam, so when i told haven i needed to buy something, i waited in between posts. i was banned. the second time, (today) i was also trying to buy something. i was aware of my first ban so i kept a double wait in between posts. that did not stop somebody from telling me i was spamming. he said stop spamming. i said i am not spamming. i am clearly trying to get a point out that i need something. After i waited around 5 minutes in between posts, but i was banned again. Will somebody please help me with my situation, because i am afraid of a permanent ban, and i don't know what to do!?!?!
BANNED???
if you are repeatedly making an absolutely absurd requsest. "spamming" every other minute "WTB red rose set. 80k ce" will not get many, if any, complaints. if you are, however, doing the same thing with "WTB red rose set 10k ce" well, yeah. sum1 is going to get ignored and report you after a while.
lol @ tradechat
idun even USE IT!
I find that as long your chat remains on the side you should not send your trade message again. Tradechat is another possibility but even then I do it only once every two minutes. What probably happened was that someone reported you without telling you that they thought you were spamming. The devs looked into it and bam.
If I were to say anything over /1, will it apply to the current instance I'm in, the current map I'm in, or everywhere?
Because at one point of time I asked a question over /1 in the bazaar, had no answer, went to the town square to ask again, and got a "shut up".
/1 goes to the arcade, bazzar, and haven instance you are in.
People are more accepting of merchant spam in Haven 1. It is not terribly effective to ask for the same thing over and over in the same haven. An example of a better approach might be to ask once, wait a minute and change havens, repeat.
And you know, I was recently presented with a temp. I would like to remind you that discussing your ban on the forums is something you should not do. Maybe you should go via http://wiki.spiralknights.com/Ban and follow the steps there, instead of resorting to general and getting scrutanized by other players.
DO NOT:
* Use forum posts, in-game mail, or in-game chat to try to appeal your ban. Appeals must be submitted via the above support contact methods so that Three Rings has an official record of them.
Also, it's against ToS to discuss the details of one's ban on the forums.
try and make the mention of your ban less prominent, the GM's don't like people discussing bans on the forums.
Second, well, 'spam' of chat is generally considered saying the same thing over and over within 30 seconds of each other.
Options: Use the Trade chat. Type '/join 2' or '/join trade' to enter the channel, and type '/2' or /trade' to chat in that channel. It sends your message to all havens in your language setting, so anyone tuned into trade chat will see it. It has a 30 second 'cooldown' period before you can use it again, so people can't really accuse you of spam.
-If you were using Zone chat to say it, don't, people don't like that. Some do anyway. (does not apply in Haven 1) Zone chat sends a massage to everyone in your instance who is in the Zone chat, so basically everyone.
-If someone tells you that you are spamming, seeing as ignoring them believing you weren't didn't work, go to a different instance and start over.
-Go to Haven 1. People recognize that place as like 'Merchant Haven'. Normal chat rules don't really apply unless it's irritating everyone.
That's all I got.