Mute group chat spam (and other annoyances)

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Tanja commented on this video
Hi. Torley, thank you for this video, but.... i m afraid muting a spammer does not do much? I would like to ask a question and I would also like to make a suggestion about it.

First, if you mute a person in the group chat, does this person stay mutted permanently ? Don't they get unmuted if you talk later in the group? (I saw Timmy's post but as far I know automatic unmute still works? if that was done already and skipped my attention, I appologise : )
If not, I would suggest to LL to replace this feature with an alert "you muted this person, would you like to unmute them?" with Yes/No option instead.
Second, I believe LL should provide an efficient tool agains agressive spammers. Group owners can fill AR report, but they can't ban spammers from rejoining their groups, and perhaps they want to see their groups growing and they like group members are chatting - but not spamming - so they want to have open enrollment and chat turned on in their group.
A lot of large groups with chat option have problem of organised spam, ie. "agencies" who post commercials in groups they don't own (against group owner's will and taking money from naive store owners for "promoting" them).
I would strongly suggest to give to group owners the same tool as land owners have: ie not just ejecting, but banning someone from the group permanently. This way group members perhaps won't even need to "mute a groupchat spam " in moderated groups.
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Andromeda commented on this video
I would love to see a feature added to mute group chat. I find continuous group chat extremely invasive, but want to stay in the group for notices.
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yeah yeah replied Oct 28, 2009
The thing that really is needed is real group chat mute..groups are needed for many only for shop rezzing and that means full 25 groups all the time. And those forced opening group chats are only and only and only worthless and annoying.
Akamu Lurra commented on this video
The title is misleading. Your only muting an individual which is nice if you are in a small group and everyone else isn't replying/harassing the person spamming. It would be nice if there was an option to mute an entire group so they can all go on chatting all they want to eachother without having to try and mute some 500 people. I often am a member of a group for event notices (which CAN be disabled) but not chat (which cannot be disabled). I love your videos Torley, but I find it easier to click on the person's name in chat to bring up their profile and click the mute button. The slider often moves to quickly as different people talk, plus with the profile open I can use the notes tab to notate why I muted them in case I bump into them inworld somewhere.
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tk789 commented on this video
i know this is off subject lol but you got a huge bank account :p
Vanvan Quartz commented on this video
I would like to know if I mute someone from the group, the other people will be able to keep seeing what the person is including?

Thanks
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Gala Caproni commented on this video
That doesn't actually mute the "group chat" it only mutes THAT person.
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Bethany Velde commented on this video
Thanks sooo much! I'm in a lot of groups so I have this problem a great deal of the time. Now I can fix it!
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Timmy Rinkitink commented on this video
Wow! thats handy, i was getting so annoyed of automatically unmuting someone because they happen to be blabbing on in group channels..and now...Now people can even mute me, which doesnt make me sad..exactly...but makes me go Grrrrr..
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