Aion: Those under level 5 cannot whisper

[Zeli]

In an attempt to shut up some of those annoying gold spammers, Aion has placed a temporary restriction on whispering in today's patch. Anyone below level 5 will find themselves unable to whisper their friends until they reach the magical level, when they can once again make use of the function. In practice, this makes whispering very much like the general channel, which is also restricted to only those characters above level 5.

This is only a temporary restriction while the Aion team works out a solution to keeping the gold spammers off of their channels once and for all. However, in the meantime, looks like we're going to have to suffer a bit.

This explains why Zevon kept sending out tells but none of us could see them. This makes it hard for new players to connect with their guild. Hopefully they think of a better way to do this soon.

source: www.massively.com/2009/10/01/aion-patches-denies-whispers/

[Slurm]

That's awesome. I was beginning to worry about the whole gold spam situation. ;D

[Maeve]

There is no easy way to fix the gold spammer problem. I sure hope they can fix it. I hate the spam I get and I hate how it can ruin the economy.

I guess this is a good time to point out to all our new people that buying gold, kinah in this case, is against the terms of service for Aion and therefore a bannable offense with Ataraxia.

[Solvanirn]

Considering it takes all of 30 minutes really to get to level 5, this won't due anything. I still get a ton of spam when I am on, and it is actually the only reason I dislike playing!

Just need to have it set up that newly created characters can send only 5 tells (to find their guild) or just have a way to disable /tells from people not in your zone or in your guild.

[Qhoren]

When you log in, go into your friends list and look in the top right corner of window, there's a little pull down menu. You can make yourself invisible. I did that tonight after getting copious amounts of spam, and it all went away.

[Saia]

It looks like the spammers have also been using the chat channels as well (General/Find Group/etc.). Now that they've added the right click > Block I immediately click that and chat is back to normal ... not that the chat channels were that fantastic anyways.

via twitter.com/aion_xaen

one forgotten patch note. You can now right click a name in the chat window and block them if for some reason you wish to not listen to them

[Takzenen]

I type /anon whenever i log on now. Only gold spam i see is that in trade channels (grrrrrrrrrrrrrr)