Just Kill the In-Game E-Mail System Already
By
Agent79,
Posted on: 2009-07-13 09:40 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
But... but... I use the email system.
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Seriously, it has lost all usefulness as a player tool.
[/ QUOTE ]Spoken like someone who doesn't think outside the borders of his own experience.
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EvilGeko is right, anything with the potential of driving spammers back into the chat system is NOT a good solution. At least the spammers are currently contained and aren't annoying players via /tells or broadcast channels.
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or even just add a new button to "Delete All" emails at once rather than having to delete every message individually if you want to clear your email box.
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This.
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Excellent idea. I recall precisely one email ever that wasn't spam, and it was telling me I'd been kicked out of the SG. Which I could pretty well tell already. It's spectacularly useless to me, and if I can't utterly disable it this is the next best thing. (If only I could ignore the red text....)
It still amuses me, in a really sad sort of way, that hitting the Spam button causes someone else to drop OFF my Ignore list. I just hit Delete now.
My solution: email IOs.
Every use of the spam button gives a 1 in 1000 chance of getting an email IO drop.
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Changed title for accuracy. Kill them or consolidate them. Perhaps it's time for an official thread like Farming? 
Posted a billion times before, but I'm still for it.
Yes, it is useless as a player tool for the most of us.
Yes, it is a great tool for RMT's.
The song remains the same.
Follow the money?
Is the path still there?
Someone that isn't stopping it is getting paid in the loop.
That should be clear by now.
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My solution: email IOs.
Every use of the spam button gives a 1 in 1000 chance of getting an email IO drop.
[/ QUOTE ]Interesting. I'd /unhide and go sit in Atlas to farm it. 
I'd like to keep my spam trap, thank you very much.
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It still amuses me, in a really sad sort of way, that hitting the Spam button causes someone else to drop OFF my Ignore list. I just hit Delete now.
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I figure it's a long-gone spammer account that's dropping off anyway, since I never ignore anyone, so I keep using the Spam button to add new spam accounts to that long-gone list.
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This again? Didn't we just have a thread on this a couple of weeks ago?
My answer remains the same: Do not remove the system. I use it. Others use it. It is not completely useless. Just because you don't, does not mean that no one does.
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