City Of Heroes: Gold Farmers? Grr..Cryptics Got The Answer! /ignore_spammer!

If you've been playing a lot of City of Heroes/Villains lately it's likely you've been spammed by gold farmers wanting to sell you infamy or influence. As many experienced MMO gamers know, farmers don't just disappear easily, they make new characters and even accounts to continue to advertise their wares. But, alas, Cryptic has got a new patch on the Test Server that may help to alleviate this issue.

From the Sept 4th Training Room Patch Notes:

New Anti Chat-Spam Command

This version also includes a new chat command.

/ignore_spammer

By using this command, a user will let our customer support know that they consider the person they added to their ignore list as one that is "spamming." For example, if a player receives an in-game tell advertising for a real money trade web site, they can use the /ignore_spammer command.

Ideally, the user can then follow up with a /petition to also let us know of the disruptive behavior via that channel.

Lighthouse has also gone on to say this command also ignores the targeted character globally.