EVE Online @lemmy.world Rob Bos @lemmy.ca 1y ago

chat filtering?

Hey, is anyone aware of a method to filter chat by keyword? The in-game spam is ... absolutely incredible.

Some super basic keyword filters would cut down on 99% of it. Even better, if you could selectively ignore any message containing a URL, or a contract, or something like that.

It's SUPER weird that a, what, 20 year old game doesn't have this. It smacks of intention and makes chat completely unusable.

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Oh boy the number of things this 20 year old game doesn’t have…

No just don’t look at Local chat in high sec
- I only have local open to see if others are in the system.
  
  Same but in systems where that matters people aren’t spamming in local. Unless a brave fleet is rolling through
There is a way to filter specific keywords, though they will appear censored (****) instead of not showing up at all.

I cant find a guide but if you look around the chat settings you should find it
Remember that there used to be a full (but outdated) browser in game. So URLs in chat was and is sorta still a feature. However if your looking for old and lost conversations, you have a logs folder that contains all chats your client loads.

Beyond that, just ignore local near Jita, you will not find a more wretched hive of scum and villiany.
It is pretty bad. The worst part is the newbie NPC corps that are constantly spammed with referral links. Such a horrible introduction to the game. It would be trivial for CCP to stamp it out in game but they seem to be fine with it.

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