voice spammers - ignoring/gagging?

(Doodie) #1

Is there any way of ignoring or gagging a voice spammer via the console?

I’ve found the following commands via google:
/toggle cg_novoicechats
Setting this to 0 will make it so that the quick chat messages (e.g., “Medic!” or “I need ammo”) will not make any audible sounds. They will, however, still show up as text.
/toggle cg_novoicetext
Setting this to 0 will make it so the quick chat messages do not show their text messages (but you will still hear audio).
/toggle cg_teamchatsonly
Setting this to 0 will make it so that you only see chat messages from your team.

But each of these has their drawbacks
And if you call for a vote - 4 times outta 5 if fails and the remainder of the time the spammer just reconnects.

(DG) #2

this works pretty well in rtcw, havent really tested it yet in ET:

// ANTI-SPAM TOGGLE
// - by Fearless & DG -
set spamoff "set cg_noVoiceChats 1;set cg_noVoiceText 1;set cg_TeamChatsOnly 1;echo ^5Spam ^1OFF;set spamtogg vstr spamon"
set spamon "set cg_noVoiceChats 0;set cg_noVoiceText 0;set cg_TeamChatsOnly 0;echo ^5Spam ^2ON;set spamtogg vstr spamonv"
set spamonv "set cg_noVoiceChats 0;set cg_noVoiceText 0;set cg_TeamChatsOnly 1;echo ^5Spam ^2ON ^3(^7team only^3);set spamtogg vstr spamoff"
vstr spamon // set to default-spamon for startup
set spamtogg "vstr spamon" 
bind KEY "vstr spamtogg"

you’ll need to copy and paste it into “autoexec.cfg” file inside the “etmain” folder, if there isnt one there already just make a new text document with notepad and give it that name - make sure it is autoexec.cfg and not autoexec.cfg.txt (espeically if your windows is set to hide known file types).

It gives three options, the first disables all voice, and only shows team chat text. The second enables all text and voice chats, like the defaults. The third iirc displays all text chats but only plays the voices from your own team.

I vaguely remember someone saying in ET that turning off team voice chats not only turns off the voices, but the text AND even the icons aswell. Very unsure about that, i might be remembering wrong and even if im not, this might have been from the test and subsequently “fixed”. ALSO, im not sure if the echo works right in ET, it might not display what setting you have it on :o

Just give it a try and see how it works :slight_smile: Credits = fearless + myself.

(Majin) #3

There is a /ignore command, but it doesn’t seem to work.

(Borsuk) #4

Play only on servers with flood protect ! It works fine for me. After spamming player is muted for like 10 or 15 seconds.

It would be cool if you could file complaints against chat spamming people.

(patchouli) #5

Was I.

http://www.splashdamage.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2381

That vstr macro DG posted works great when it gets bad for overall spammage, and for now that’s really all we’ve got. It’ll make a big difference in your anger level. I didn’t think it would be that useful – I was wrong. Bind it to easy to hit without looking, like KP_MINUS.