I can't believe i actually have to suggest such a dumb change, but this is annoying, completely annoying.
People are spamming public chat all the time, posting "WTS/WTT/WTB/LFP/LFG/LFM/looking for whatever i can to annoy you" etc etc..
and that's not the worst part though, because even if there are Trade and Party channels for that purpose, i wouldn't really mind someone asking once in a while to sell or if someone can help, etc. The problem is they spam it.
Those who are used to having only public chat enabled in a tab will know that public goes slow usually, so even if you post once every 10 minutes, you're sure to be read by a lot of people. So then you have these guys that spam 3-4 messages one after the other, and then don't read the replies. The ONLY explanation i can find is the one that motivates this post: They use "All" tab and don't know how to turn chats off.
So they see Party & Trade infinite spam stream, and they think Public goes just as fast too, so they end up spamming to be read. A funny fact, indeed, is that if you separate Trade and Party in different tabs as well, you'll see they spam for no reason at all, since you can see 3-4 posts of the same player one after the other, and sometimes only a few players are actually posting there.
My solution, and i'm begging you to do it, is to turn off those two chats by default, or make them separate tabs, i don't know, whatever you can come up with and it's easy to do. Because that'd would let them see that public is just a relaxed chat that goes slow, and doesn't need to be spammed to get others' attention. Please, please, do it.
Edited by faku1810, 24 October 2014 - 10:51 PM.