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SpamSentry by Anea
This addon stops goldspam messages from showing in your chatframes. To detect spam, SpamSentry uses sophistacted heuristics that have been developed over the course of over two years. Caught spammers can easily be reported using an intuitive one-click report system. SpamSentry features an LDB plugin that provides some simple status info, and gives you quick access to the options and the reporting window.
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20091214: Updated toc for 3.3, updated filters, fixed issue with Whisp
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Installation:
* Unzip the file into your 'Interface/Addons' folder.
Features:
* Detects multi-message spam
* Customisable notification
* LibDataBroker (LDB) support (FuBar users can download Broker2FuBar to show the SpamSentry icon)
* Compatible with Whisp, Chatter and Wim
* Seperate reportlists are maintained for each realm you play on
* And many more
Use:
* Left click the LDB icon to show a list of blocked messages
* Type /sentry or right-click the icon for options
How to help:
* If a spam-message isn't recognised:
1. Report the spammer by right-clicking the name in the chat window and selecting "Report Spam"
2. Control-click the SpamSentry icon
3. Send me a PM with the code sequence
* If you encounter a false positive:
1. Click the message in SpamSentry main-window
2. Send me a PM containing that message
Performance notes:
* All code has been designed to minimize parsing-time, and maximize performance for raiding.
* The addon currently uses about 150kB memory (Patch 3.0 GetAddOnMemoryUsage(), no libraries).
* Toggle the statistics option in the configuration screen to show session statistics in the tooltip.
Known issues:
* Blizzard made an a-typical implementation for who-queries. You may notice slow response on the /who command while using this mod when the chat is crowded.
* Textballoons from says and yells are still shown. Blizzard currently provides no way to block textballoons.
Localisation:
German - Credits to: Scath, Gothico , Gamefaq
French - Credits to: Foxbad, Onissifor, Citanul, Beldarane
Spanish - Credits to Nekromant for his translation
Chinese - Credits to Norova for her translation
Other - Please contact me if you're able / willing to provide localisation for your language.
Special thanks:
To Aery for unlimited testing-support
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02-21-09, 03:29 AM | |
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I have just uploaded a new version of SpamSentry with updated filters. I have made some small changes to further reduce false positives. It also features a few tweaks to catch some new spammers.
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02-18-09, 11:20 AM | |||
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That and I realize it takes interaction like this to keep an Addon in healthy shape. And to me, this has alwasy been a quality Addon, well worth the effort. You do a great job, and I appreciate it, that's enough for me.
As for a full stacktrace, that came out of ImprovedErrorFrame. I actually have !Swatter available to me if that will produce the desired specifics, but I don't normally keep it enabled. I have about 200+ addons installed, and frankly some throw regular errors at me that, even if I could figure out why they occur, I often find authors are much more interested in playing the blame game than helping me to get down to the problem and fix it. So, Improved Error Frame allows me to queue error messages without having them forced into my face every session- which would make the game with my current UI frankly unplayable. I've asked the team that authors Swatter to make queueing an option- because, like you, I think !Swatter produces much more explicit error reporting- I just can't have an Addon enabled that's going to be blocking my screen up every ten seconds. Sadly the !Swatter team doesn't seem too interested in including a rather simple feature like that, so I'm stuck with Improved Error Frame. When I'm not doing anything important I'll have to let !Swatter have a go at it and see if I can capture a more detailed error for you, but sadly I can't promise much. Just getting those four false positives was somehting of a rigmarole. This will be moreso, I suspect.
Last edited by SkunkWerks : 02-18-09 at 11:22 AM.
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02-18-09, 08:10 AM | ||||
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02-17-09, 11:47 PM | ||||||
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Finally, I have a few false positives, occurred literally within seconds of one another:
Actually each time it happens it seems like there's an error from a version of ChatThrottleLib used by another addon- CallToArms. Lemme see if I can get a copy of that error...
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02-17-09, 09:39 AM | ||
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Re: Re: Re: Re: feature request
Unfortunately I cannot confirm nor deny the issue that has been brought to ligth by SkunkWerks. I cannot replicate it on the servers I play on. I want to stress that I do take this false-positive issue serious, and for that matter I'm currently looking into ways on improving how SpamSentry handles links to websites in chatmessages, especially for low-level characters. At the moment I'm interested in any and all reports of false-positives (provided you are using the latest version of SpamSentry). Please post them here or in PM. Thanks in advance, Anea |
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02-16-09, 08:32 PM | ||
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Re: Re: Re: feature request
As for the matter of auto-reporting, the queue in SpamSentry is easy enough to empty occasionally. Honestly except for the plague of False Positives (which is really out of character for the history of this addon's development), I still think SpamSentry is the tops. |
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02-16-09, 08:27 PM | ||
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Honestly though, in only one or two cases could I see how the tell would have been filtered. One for instance was a suggestion for a confused individual to use Wowhead.com. But lately about 90% of what the filter catches isn't spam, really. If I have five things on the report list, four of them are probably false positives. Like I said, I'll see if I can collect a few examples for you.
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02-16-09, 07:17 AM | ||
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Re: Re: feature request
I see the reason why people are asking for auto-reporting, for example, on my server the spam situation is so bad that I get gold spam every two to five minutes while I'm in a big city, and to be honest I prefer auto reporting everything than having to deal with various pop-ups and confirmation messages. And right now, the fact that I'm probably auto-reporting some false positives does not prevent me from using BAS even though I'm convinced that the spam filter in SpamSentry is much more reliable. Whenever I leave my comp unattended for a few minutes (e.g. when I'm scanning the Auction House with Auctioneer) I usually find three or more spam messages caught by SpamSentry when I return to the game, and I am unable to report the first few because too much time has passed by then. This is the main reason why I am using BAS instead of SpamSentry now (not to mention the removal of bot reporting from SpamSentry). So I think adding a level limit for auto-reporting would prevent people from auto-reporting false positives. My last false positives were from a lvl 19 twink character and a lvl 80 character in Dalaran - all other lvl 1 spam messages were real spam.
Last edited by Cordelia : 02-16-09 at 10:32 AM.
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02-15-09, 01:46 PM | ||
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02-15-09, 04:12 AM | |
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Can you give me any examples of false positives here or by pm?
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02-12-09, 06:19 PM | |
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The new version still seems to be throwing some very strange false positives.
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02-12-09, 01:44 PM | ||
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I don't think it was a 10% false positive rate, but yes I noticed the increase as well. It turns out that one of the filter-rules I added in the last update has the nasty habit of incorrectly catching messages at the most odd moments. I have just uploaded a fixed version of SpamSentry.
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02-12-09, 11:41 AM | |
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Well, I seem to have managed to get the wholib problem sorted out (which required abandoning an addon I rather liked), now onto a different issue:
SpamSentry appears to be throwing a LOT more false positives than I remember. Months ago, I remember the ratio being about 1:10 false positive-to-correct ratio. Now it's about reversed. What's up? |
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02-08-09, 09:32 AM | ||
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Re: Re: Bot reporting
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