Question

I have an idea! A lot of people say that the chats are spammed with trollers and spammers and whatsoever. Maybe if OS put a 10 second time limit between each chat post a user can do...

Answer 1

Like I know they do that for asking questions but for the chats it should be like 7 seconds or 10 is fine...

Answer 2

10 seconds?
so if someone says hi to me, it would take me ten seconds to say hi back to them if I had just spoken? ew
perhaps not that long?
tho I liked the ss restraint idea better :/

Answer 3

Put your idea here.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1gbJyuidaelKd6L9uwX68yWGdF5sSUKGGPSIW1EFH7To/viewform?fbzx=8274051468386523441

Answer 4

I still like 75 seconds - your SS as a pause. So once people get up there, the pause is gone.

Answer 5

How about we disable the chats completely and replace them with something easier to handle?

Answer 6

And what would be easier to handle.

Answer 7

@e.mccormick That isn't helpful to high SS people... The people who actually now that spamming will get them suspended and warned..

Answer 8

Yes, well, none of the suggestions given have been designed to stop high SS people from spamming.

Answer 9

what if you post x amount of times in an x-minute long time span and then a pop-up comes up and says something like "whoa there! you seem like you might be spamming. why not take a break?" and then you have to wait like 30 sec to post something else in the chat

like if you post 10 times in a minute, it'll pop up or something

Answer 10

@e.mccormick A time which is the same for everyone...

Answer 11

They already do something like that for questions. So the code is in there.

Answer 12

Yes but not for chats.

Answer 13

@TheSmartOne The reason why I point it out is because of how code gets reused... so if they have the code, it can be easier to reuse.

As for the 10 seconds for all, it would basically be killing the chats as chats, as opposed to limiting them to being chats for people that have earned it by working hard on OS over time.

Answer 14

i think my idea, plus a minimum SS requirement for chat privilege should reduce spam. i think a SS of like 30 should unlock chats

Answer 15

Same ^^

Answer 16

I am thinking of an ss of 60. That is not hard to earn.

Answer 17

i think that is way too high

Answer 18

It is easy to get there.

Answer 19

@AriPotta Getting to 65 is very tough but getting to 60 is easy. 60 SS means that you a couple fans, a few questios asked, and around 100 medals
But I would think 55 SS.

Answer 20

"you a couple fans"

Answer 21

lol

Answer 22

you have a couple*

Answer 23

i just don't want lower SS users to not have the ability to chat for so long. idk, maybe 30 SS is too low, but 60 is too high imo

Answer 24

Didn't we already have this asked earlier? I do agree, with that.

Answer 25

Yes but nothing comes out of it...

Answer 26

Then what is the point of asking bringing it up again.

Answer 27

wow I never saw your post @jigglypuff314 until now... OS lagging probably didn't show it..

Answer 28

30 SmartScore is easy to get under this system. 50 is a bit more realistic.

Answer 29

Ok 50 then.

Answer 30

The one \(\huge \textbf{insanely huge}\) problem with a minimum chat SS is this:

One of the only reasons chat has not been removed completely is that it allows new users to post links to their questions. This helps alleviate the dead subject area problem. If you do not address this, then making the chat completely unavailable to people with a 0 SS is simply a way if saying that chat is no longer needed.

Answer 31

Oh....

Answer 32

Which is why I say an SS based delay. That, or find another solution to the dead subjects.

Answer 33

If you want to remove the chats just have an option in the question that says "Post Link Into Chat" or what ever you want to put in place of the chats. Like "Post Link Into Question Viewer" or something else.

Answer 34

@e.mccormick

Answer 35

I always thought a custom left hand side where you can pick and mix the topics would be useful. Then you use a topic pulldown for where to ask in, but could reply in different topics at the same time.

Answer 36

@TheSmartOne There's a phrase, "Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater." Research what this means and come back to us. I don't think this is the solution, but I admire your willingness to brainstorm and come up with new ideas. =D

Answer 37

Umm. We have to empty the water from the bathtub without harming the baby...

Answer 38

i actually think this is a bad idea, some people like to post new thoughts as they come along during a math problem and don't want to wait 10 seconds. This idea is used on reddit, which is the reason why i dont use reddit.com

Answer 39

well this would only be for the chats?

Answer 40

im not sure.

Answer 41

oh i guess :) , but still

Answer 42

people would not want to wait 10 seconds in between saying something

Answer 43

it would be nice if they put the chat box in a different part of open study. i think it distracts people who want math help . oh well

Answer 44

@perl This is for chats not posts in a question.

Answer 45

ahhh

Answer 46

some people come here to chat, they may not take a liking to it :)

Answer 47

There already is a spam control on question posts.

Might also help a ton if the chat input was dropped from 600 down to 200 characters.

Answer 48

That too maybe...

Answer 49

what if it were to pause for ten seconds only for the spammer if he/she had chatted 10 or more times in one minute.

Answer 50

umm. that is what we kind of said...

Answer 51

Just remove the chats...

Answer 52

What's the point of them anyways?

Answer 53

idk

Answer 54

So that people can post off topic things without spamming hte topics and so that people have a way to promote a question to try and get help.

Answer 55

Lets get back to topic
O.S.S.F. is supposed to be getting rid of these "trollers" and "spammers"

Even though I have never seen a "troller" being warned by an O.S.S.F. member
Neither have I seen any in action...

I do have to say though, nowadays there a far less "trollers" and "spammers" than before for some suspicious reason.

I'm pretty sure its not because of O.S.S.F. but trollers have been fading away
I can't remember the last time I have seen a spam in a chat (unless its community spam c;)

Also, profanity has taken a cut, I haven't seen tht as much either...
Weird...

Answer 56

Profanity has not taken a cut. I have went to various questions and have seen profanity. Some people even have bad words in their username. That would still be a problem.

However there have been a lot less spammers. I never see chat spammers. But there are a lot of question spammers.