What is chat spam?

[Conan]

What about this?Someone makes a script to post various versions of this over several lines of chat. It's purpose is to take up space in the chat window and annoy people. Theres hardly any detectable pattern. The only thing it is is long, but what if someone is just telling a long story?

you're asking for a lot here. unless you want to go full-out AI with all the potential downsides to it, you won't be able to detect intent in messages.

i mean, look at microsoft and their twitter bot experiment failure.

stick to the easy, and well-defined stuff. Why do you need such a comprehensive bot anyways?
also if you do make such a comprehensive bot you probably should not write it in torquescript.

[Ad Bot]

[Ipquarx]

How will you be able to detect stuff like spamming the sha1 command which prints out bullcrap like

b6589fc6ab0dc82cf12099d1c2d40 ab994e8410c
356a192b7913b04c54574d18c28d4 6e6395428ab
da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec 4a8359010b0
77de68daecd823babbb58edb1c8e1 4d7106e83bb
1b6453892473a467d07372d45eb05 abc2031647a

etc etc etc.

[Conan]

as for gibberish, you could do a word/space key search (how long the word is, any presence of spaces, number of actual words in the long word if someone's typing without spaces) and just cull the extreme cases (which incidentally also covers extreme letter repetition)

[Whirlwind~]

as for gibberish, you could do a word/space key search (how long the word is, any presence of spaces, number of actual words in the long word if someone's typing without spaces) and just cull the extreme cases (which incidentally also covers extreme letter repetition)

Its not hard to hit the spacebar a couple times when spamming...

Adding a dictionary might help a little, but then you need to account for misspellings, names, and abbreviations.

How will you be able to detect stuff like spamming the sha1 command which prints out bullcrap

Yea thatd be tough. I guess that's job security for admins


Also it just occurred to me that we may be giving trolls ideas :P

[Shift Kitty]

Best to give them the idea and fix it before they figure it out on their own and abuse it while the admins are away.

[joe411]

If you somehow make an AI that can delete chat spam with 95% accuracy, it would probably be best not to limit yourself to Blockland.

[Whirlwind~]

also if you do make such a comprehensive bot you probably should not write it in torquescript.

If you somehow make an AI that can delete chat spam with 95% accuracy, it would probably be best not to limit yourself to Blockland.

You could lay the foundations here, and you'll obviously need a place to test this on, so instead of someplace big like twitter, why not some obscure indie game that nobody's heard of. If it becomes a success (unlikely), you convert it, sell it, tell about its origins in Blockland, and bam

Badspot gets money.