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What OP said here.
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Hmm... the spamming might be why I dedicated a tab solely to broadcast, AE, and Arena only. As I have also dedicated a tab to LFG channels. Tab for local. Tab for customized combat. (Rewards, errors.) Etc, etc, etc...
Personally I prefer editing the chat tabs. Makes life easier. Less people complaining. Less reason to complain. That way everyone who likes Broadcast as it is, can have it that way. I only look when I feel like it.
Sometimes there aren't many people in the AE building at that specific moment. Or perhaps the person who could jump in on a group is over leveling up outside that would be in the right level bracket to jump in on the PuG. Broadcast is there for that purpose. Anyone in the zone can communicate with another.
My suggestion for a solution would be to just kick broadcast to a different tab, or take it out of the main completely. Or keep it in two tabs if you are afraid you'll miss something, when the 'LFG spamming' gets to be to much just take it out of the main until you are ready to re-add it and you can check the other tab from time to time to see what was said or if it stopped. That is pretty much what I do when people start rolling AE LFG spam through the request channel. I move it from the main into the broadcast tab.
Unless you are asking for a Server wide channel that is dedicated to LFG/LFT and for Broadcast to be policed. I don't exactly agree with that idea. [Translation: /unsigned] If that isn't what you are alluding to, then my apologies. It just read that way to me.
Yes spam is annoying, but this does not seem like that big of an issue since you have the option to customize your chat to filter Broadcast out of the main chat.
Then again to be fair: Nothing is stopping someone for pointing out the user run public channels dedicated to LFG on each server. And nothing is stopping anyone from making AE only LFG channels on the servers either and promoting them ouside of the "normal" LFG [Usually missions/SF/TFs specific.] channels.
Just my thought on it.
Feel free to agree or disagree as you see fit.
More power to you on whatever point of view you have.
